The Maiden Lane Housing Estate was designed by Benson & Forsyth in the early 1970s, under the leadership of Sydney Cook. These low-rise, street-based housing initiatives were often sited on landlocked sites subject to noise pollution.

This project addresses the sound pollution issues of the railway-bound Maiden Lane Estate through the reuse of open space along the rail tracks. It proposes the creation of a water-based soundscape structure bridging the rail lines, which will house much needed affordable studio spaces for Camden.

The structure generates water-based white noise through a rainwater harvesting system to simultaneously obscure noise pollution and provide the core component of the public realm reconstruction. The project organises the landscape using key aspects of traditional Chinese landscape design.