Matt Lucraft confronts Londons housing crisis with mock tudor cum metabolist building system

In response to the lack of affordable housing in London, Bartlett student Matt Lucraft has proposed an evolving selfbuilt housing cooperative based on a mishmash of English vernacular and historic Japanese architecture. The Dagenham Breach Housing Cooperative seeks to address London s current property crisis by offering an opensource modular system that could be used to build customisable houses cheaply and quickly. Taking the form of treehouselike structures arranged around shared gardens, the build