This project proposes the setting up of a Credit Union to look after the interests of the low-paid cleaners in the City of London who work through the night. Their bank sits inside the first large park in that part of town, protected all around by a thin, inhabited wall of poche spaces. The rays and energy from the sun are collected by giant metal `flowers' in the park, with the light and heat then funnelled down into spaces for sleeping, banking, and socialising below the ground. Drawing on proportional analysis of Wren's St Paul's and St Stephen Wallbrook, a cluster of alabaster domes also transmit sunlight to the Credit Union, and the Wallbrook River is excavated to enhance the park's biodiversity.
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