Constructions s(c)olaires - Living "containers" made of sun, air and light - The type "E" dormitories of the Children's Village in Voula by Panos-Nikolis Djelepy | "Doxeia" katoikisis apo ilio, aera, kai fos - Oi koitones tipou "E" tis Paidoupolis sti Voula tou Panou-Nikoli Djelepy

The 1938 issue of L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui magazine, dedicated to the modern architectural output in Greece, features the Children’s Village project in Voula, Athens (1933–1934, 1936–1939) by Panos-Nikolis Djelepy (Constantinople, 1894 – Athens, 1976). This project is part of a broader selection of modernist buildings, such as hospitals, sanatoria and public schools, designed to facilitate social transition. The article includes an interior view of one of the experimental type "E" dormitory buildings, emphasizing the fluid boundaries between inside and outside. The dormitory building was widely promoted in interwar periodicals and extensively discussed in Djelepy’s book Villages d’enfants (1949). The project aligns with the healthcare buildings of the Modern era which reexamined the character of the boundary, the relationship between body and space, and the socio-environmental role of architecture. The aim of the paper is to recompose a reading of this building complex as a holistic organism, harmonized with the landscape, climate and nature and its intersection with elements of tradition and the modern idiom.