House of the Lost Forest is set within the fragmented remains of the ancient Forest of Middlesex, beneath North London. Traces of woodland persist here as a latent condition within the city.

The house occupies a wooded embankment overlooking a rewilded railway cutting, abandoned in the 1980s and now reclaimed by oak, ash, kestrels, bats, and owls. What was once infrastructure is now a living ruin and habitat.

The building opens progressively towards the woodland edge. Lateral and vertical apertures draw deep views into the canopy and understorey, integrating tree, ground, and sky into the daily experience of the house.

A south-facing atrium anchors the staggered plan, combining open communal spaces with more intimate rooms, so the house shifts between continuous volume and secluded retreat. Layered thresholds and framed voids maintain a constant exchange with its surroundings, never fully inside or outside.

The building is designed to be absorbed into the rewilded railway and ruin, where architecture, people, animals, and the spirit of the woodland coexist.

Woods are where our deepest dreams and fears take form. House of the Lost Forest draws on the latent Forest of Middlesex and the more-than-human realm, creating an inner-city home charged with nature.