This project uses the concepts of rewilding and reuse to explore how architecture can become more conscious of its ecological footprint. Situated on Convoys Wharf, a derelict shipyard in Deptford, it proposes the seeding of a new forest to transform this post-industrial brownfield site into an ecological hub, where urbanites can forge a deeper connection with the local ecology.

A new forestry commission centre is erected among the trees in phases as the forest matures. The centre contains an office for official forest maintenance, a community hall available to the public, and a foraging centre to conduct guided tours through the forest and to educate visitors how to forage safely for food.

The historic dockyard building is retained, whereas several warehouses on the site are stripped down to their basic building materials and upcycled to construct the forestry centre, reducing the overall carbon footprint. Forest maintenance will also yield excess timber that is used for the façades of the new building. In this way, the project is a symbolic marriage of industrial and natural materials, while architecture becomes a threshold celebrating coexistence between humans and nature.