The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Matt Lucraft's concept for a modular building system designed to address London's housing crisis.
Matt Lucraft's proposal, titled the Dagenham Breach Housing Co-operative, is a plan for a settlement of self-built and customisable homes that seeks to tackle the scarcity of affordable housing in the British capital.

Additional modules could be tacked on the existing buildings to extend them as required, minimising costs and waste by offering residents homes tailored to their needs.
The plans combine the pitched roofs of English vernacular architecture with the typically compact proportions of Japanese housing. Lucraft also drew from the post-war Japanese Metabolist architecture movement, which promoted the use of modular plug-in capsules to create megastructures that emulate organic growth.
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