The ongoing construction of Notre Dame has been the embodiment of more than 850 years of the city’s existence, a chronicle of its temperament, the wars and peace, captivity and liberation, struggles, progress, legends, its gods and demons, revolutions, its literature, reforms, strikes. The recent fire, another incident in its long years has once again inspired such a moment of collective will, as natural as tending to a somatic malady as it were. The project stages Notre Dame and Paris as a corpus of interdependent parts through the restoration process. Shrouded in layers of diaphanous membranes hung on an all enclosing scaffold, the visitors can experience an immersive one to one encounter with the building details, and the reconstruction of roof and spire through a series of dedicated paths accessed by lifts.