Set in the Thames Estuary, the project depicts the transformation of an ordinary suburban settlement in Essex into a tidal water town. Essex is built on borrowed land, reclaimed from the sea and the river, it has an ambiguous status. The resulting in-between is a space of ongoing conflict. Industries come and go, people arrive, aits and islets are formed by the shifting black mud “confounding expectations a landscape should provide solidity from era to era”. In the next thirty years, Canvey Island’s flood defence wall will be breached. Water will wash over miles of territory reclaiming historic areas of marshland and tidal foreshore. Estuary settlements will become towns on water and existing standards of territory and ownership will be redefined. The gradual adaption of Canvey is prompted by the insertion of small pieces of infrastructure on a local scale. While historically, change came in surges, now it is incremental. Transformation is woven into the working of the town. Infrastructure mediates the impermanence of the landscape while towers provide a reminder of the familiar within the otherwise empty.