Within the wider redevelopment of the London Thames Estuary, the Barking & Dagenham territory represents a critical threshold where the city’s industrial past is being rapidly overwritten by an aggressive residential future. Large-scale strategies, such as Barking Riverside, often operate through a tabula rasa logic, treating the existing industrial fabric as a mere void to be filled. This process raises a necessary question: can we design this transition, or are we destined only to manage its erasure? This thesis project does not seek a permanent equilibrium between industrial legacy and living form, rather, it captures a spatial snapshot of the transitional process toward a new residential neighbourhood.