Finsbury Park and its reservoir was built in 1869 in an area previously known as Hornsey Woods. Due to its promiscuous nature, the government proposed that the woods be transformed into a park in an attempt to reduce misbehaviour. The prestigious landscape designer Alexandra McKenzie was chosen to construct a scheme for the gardens. McKenzie popularised the park when it first opened and it became a resting stop for tea when traveling onwards to Alexandra Palace by train.

The proposal plans to open the underground reservoir, transitioning it into a community space that brings back the history of McKenzie's landscape architecture. The proposal keeps the original layout of the reservoir, incorporating arches with interwinding paths and gardens. New architectural additions extrude the arches upwards, revealing them above ground. The ambition of this building is for it to become an attractive social area for the local community, with the hope of becoming a spatial bridge between the past and present.