The project grounds itself in reality yet uses the characteristics of dynamic and site-specific environmental conditions such as fluctuating water levels to create opportunities for dream-like landscape conditions to occur. Located at Bow Locks in East London, the raising and lowering of water anchors the narrative of transformation to the site. By manipulating the landscape in different ways to heat, mist, filter, channel and pool water around the experience of the user, an elevated version of reality is offered to inhabitants passing through. The project seeks to submerge the user meandering into the ‘Dreamscape’ into its territory through a trail of whimsical and immersive environmental experiences, where they can step in and out of reality.

The project uses intuitive drawing techniques that become part of this process of discovery, transcribing both the seen and unseen features of the site to create new topographies as an overlay to the real world. By imagining this site as one node that is part of a wider system, the dreamscape floats beyond its immediate surroundings and onto to wider territories, offering surreal landscape conditions and unique material applications to ordinary sites.