In Unbuilt London, Lucas Dekker uses point cloud scanning and virtual reality to reconstruct a city shaped by unrealised ideas. Drawing on the speculative architectural visions collected in London as it might have been by Felix Barker and Ralph Hyde, this installation invites visitors to experience London not as it is, but as it was once imagined.

For this work, Lucas Dekker travelled to London, scanning and capturing fragments with 3D scanning, audio recording and photographs of the city. These form the basis of a visually minimal environment—deliberately sparse to engage the viewer’s imagination. The installation extends beyond the visual through sounds recorded and the sound design by Manuel de Ruijter and a guiding narration voiced by Richard Strange, who appears as The Architect.