Chapter 17 The Unveiling

The periods after the basic functional ritual that is move-in day are always vibrant and charged with energy. Kai and I were very much a part of the process that focused on the smooth transition in the community. Families built their homes and the relations between the people became very friendly and cordial. One can only imagine the kind of drama the children were enacting or the kind of jokes the adults were cracking. Every time Kai and I went to the community, he got a call from one of his long-time business partners. They had expressed desire to work together on a new project that entailed development of a foremost business park for the state of the art buildings as well as ecological sites. Namely, the concept was such that a firm has to be environmentally friendly and innovative, creating new growth opportunities. Kai was enthusiastic about the opportunity and I could see how inspired he was to do architecture and sustainability again. We spoke of the project for hours that e