The exact distributed controllability of the semilinear heat equation $partial_{t}y-Delta y + g(y)=f ,1_{omega}$ posed over multi-dimensional and bounded domains, assuming that $gin C^1(mathbb{R})$ satisfies the growth condition $limsup_{rto infty} g(r)/(vert rvert ln^{3/2}vert rvert)=0$ has been obtained by Fernandez-Cara and Zuazua in 2000. The proof based on a non constructive fixed point arguments makes use of precise estimates of the observability constant for a linearized heat equation. In the one dimensional setting, assuming that $g^prime$ does not grow faster than $beta ln^{3/2}vert rvert$ at infinity for $beta>0$ small enough and that $g^prime$ is uniformly Holder continuous on $mathbb{R}$ with exponent $pin [0,1]$, we design a constructive proof yielding an explicit sequence converging to a controlled solution for the semilinear equation, at least with order $1+p$ after a finite number of iterations.
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