The task is to design a building that moves with the receding coastline of the Dead Sea. This building relocates without human intervention, in spasms so to speak, as the sea level sinks. Both landscape and climate are exploited in the interests of a 21-day cure for hyperactive men and women. The machine presents an artificial landscape for contemplation, confrontation and physical experiences, a place where giving in to the surroundings is of the essence. The cure has to place the patients in another time and space, rekindling their interest in their environment and all that this has to offer.

Epilogue
As I try to rub the red dust from my hands, I turn once more and look for the last time in the direction of the water where the building ducks down behind a slope. From where I am standing I can no longer see the float, most of the components in fact.

The cells reflect the ever reddening sunlight in a way that reminds me of the light in Eduard Meier's photos of UFOs. Just how convincing is fiction and how implausible reality?

A good deal changed during my time in the health resort. The banal ceded to the basic. The typological to the literary. Time, slowness, change, adaptation, movement and balance were allotted their own place and meaning.

My stay was a wandering, an odyssey. Still, I have tried to pass on as many as possible of my experiences to make the stays of visitors after me that much simpler.

My cure is over.
I turn round to face the setting sun and proceed on my way...

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