The printing house circulates stories from the European Union (EU), supported by its own paper production and printing press. It acts as a node of communication, maintaining the tenuous connection between the new settlement and its maritime trading partners. In precarious geopolitical and environmental circumstances, common ground and solidarity can be found through communicative exchange rather than merely the trading of goods.

Framing is used to hide and reveal different aspects of the building’s nature to different groups. A central concrete wall presents a misleading façade to the pre-existing village of Cley and supports the inhabited spaces oriented towards the new settlement.

The wall is designed as a monument-in-waiting, an inhabited proto-ruin inaugurated when floods caused by rising sea levels make the building’s functional use untenable. Even the initial structure of the inhabited spaces is informed by their inescapable ephemerality. The wall's formwork, maintained after completion, is the frame around which the inhabited spaces are woven. At the end of the building’s life, the wall remains. Its form recalls its human use and its skin records its material lifetime.