This residential development to the north of Euston Station comes as a response to the HS2 proposal for a vast linear park containing high-rise residential buildings overlaying the gap in the urban fabric created by the presence of the railways.

By analysing the area’s history – the fragmented urban tissue on the east side of Regent’s Park, including the Military Barracks and the area between Mornington Street and Granby Terrace – the site has clearly been determined by John Nash’s urban plan for the construction of Regent’s Park (1833). Implementing the banding principle that derives from Nash’s original urban plan, and through an examination of the Camden Housing typologies built during the 1960s and 1970s, a new approach to providing housing that works with the historic urban grain rather than tracing the rail lines is proposed.

However, the brutalist structures of Camden Housing do not leave opportunities for adaptation. Drawing on Heath Robinson’s illustrations in How to live in a flat, and on the work of Team 10, the scheme provides a flexible design that enables inhabitants to appropriate parts of the central structure according to their changing needs. The scheme design also supports a circular economy and uses only sustainable materials.