Which town?

alternatives for its final covering = what would the triangular panels be made of, what would be their texture and their formal language, what would their expression serve? Ideas and demonstrations, wrangles, disputes and competitions = time was passing and so much work was yet awaiting.

How to come to an agreement? According to which principle and criteria?

From near or far, everyone in the community took part in the debate.

For the manner in which the sphere would be dressed, its outer appearance and what it would convey, would largely determine the relationship each one would keep with its significance, its presence and its function.

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Some had become attached to the daily sight, ever new and revealing, of this inner Chamber as if suspended within the volume of the sphere opened to the world = would it not be simpler and more elegant to install glass panels that would insulate from the weather and the ambient noise but would preserve the living rapport from the inner to the outer, from outside to within? To be able to distinguish the beauty of the day and of Nature all around even while ascending the ramp to the consecrated inner space, would that not be the expression of the work of unification? Others perceived the whole inner space of the sphere as a place of initiation, requiring silence and the concentration of the senses and of the attention and recommended hermetism; yet their views diverged as to the language the outermost covering would partake. One approach addressed the relationship between the cover and the natural environment – the variations of the light and of the seasons, the communication between the vegetation of the gardens, the distances and

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