Set in a scenario when government cuts mean that the state can no longer afford to maintain Regent’s Park, this project envisages a monastery for ecologically focussed monks who collect the plant waste in the park and process it in an anaerobic digester, maintaining the park and rendering themselves self-sufficient. The monastery combines spaces aimed at religious devotion and a desire to live sustainably on the threshold between London’s urban environment and the park, exploring the overlaps between the sacred and the everyday. Located around are sunken spaces for collective contemplation. Whenever enough believers are gathered together and standing on the floor-plate, the resulting weight triggers the unexpected opening of the roof ‘petal’ segments overhead.
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