Beckton, located by the River Thames in an industrial area east of London, was one of the biggest gasworks of its time. Shuttered after the close of the Second World War, the ruins of Beckton left behind polluted brownfields. Due to the toxic nature of the ground and its threat to humans, it was never redeveloped.

The proposal is a phased landscape that will heal the land over a period of time, before any human uses are introduced. The landscape is a symbol of how humans create this destruction, and therefore human intervention is limited in the first phase. As nature slowly heals the landscape, people become a greater part of it. In 70 years, once the landscape has sufficiently healed, the landscape can be repurposed to help manage flooding of the Thames. The site becomes an ecological zone connecting to a larger green corridor, with an impact on the larger ecological scale. It becomes a floodable landscape designed to remediate and act as a flood barrier.