This project looks at London’s water infrastructures and the floating boater communities within them. It seeks to make urban waterways a hub of biodiversity, exploring how humans and natural environments can coexist in close proximity and benefit one another through a symbiotic relationship.

It aims to tackle food, clean water and energy crises by reinstating a holistic, slow and resourceful lifestyle of off-grid communities, activating forgotten and underused parts of waterways to increase biodiversity and to create more mooring spots for continuously cruising houseboats. Responding to the Studio 4 brief ‘Frontier’, Boaters Landscapes explores how uninhabited city terrains such as concrete river banks and tidal surfaces can be utilised by people and vegetation.