Some tense space. Opposites creating balance. Stability given by the succession of shadows and light.

A place where opposites coexist, spatially and conceptually.
I wonder how such a place could exist today, or in the future...

I don't know — everything is different today, our rituals focus on what? Entertainment? We evolve to new frontiers where the natural element survives beyond its habitat.

Perhaps we will get to the point where we will be able to completely mimic nature by merging with it — Or will we be able to match it?

Yet I find something beautiful, something positive in it; some kind of happy ending hope.

Yes, like a Disney happy ending — people create what they need. They produce new monuments to represent their hopes.

Perhaps we should get rid of all this proliferation of symbols and focus solely on our needs. To tell stories that have never been told. To think of new places that combine visions of the future with human needs, meditation, sociality, gathering...

"We postulate human society as a process of cosmic development from atom to nebula. We use the biological term "metabolism" as for us design and technology are just extensions of the human vital power. That is why we do not simply accept the metabolism of history as a natural process, but seek to actively develop it."
The manifesto of metabolism 1960, cit. in A.ISOZAKI, Japan-ness in Architecture, MIT Press, Cambridge 2006 p.62

Places where our minds can imagine new frontiers.