Itinerary

the Consciousness-Force of Truth, but this emotional and physical communication with the life of Auroville, could it not be somehow preserved? Thus, some of us had dreamt of another solution: to lay large triangular panes of strong glass onto the concrete armature, which would stop the rain and the dust but still let through the light and impressions of the natural environment. Others, observing the puissant harmony of this geodesic facetted sphere, wished to clothe it in a material at once noble, simple and lasting and offered to cover it with plates of white marble which would each reflect uniquely the ambient light. Still others were trying for a more generic solution: to reset the contours of an actual smooth and continuous sphere by creating bands of light concrete laid with thousands of little squares of ceramic tinted by natural oxides, from light ochre to blue and green, answering to each variation of the light and offering a tranquil and permanent mystery of beauty to the beholder. And of course, the model of the golden discs remained paramount in most of us, as such had been the official version since the beginning. However there were now new practical problems to be solved, beginning with that of the visibility which would suffuse the interior of the sphere, that is the space between the outer walls of the Inner Chamber seated in its upper part and its outer covering. Moreover, it averred that the initial model of the golden discs presented by Roger‟s team years before could not adapt to the new geometry of the shell structure and that a whole new study of the arrangement and composition of the concave and convex discs animating the entire surface of the sphere would have to be made.

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