Neo-liberal dreams of invisible labour are awakened in the outskirts of Heathrow airport in London, where a 440.000m2 logistics underground warehouse is being planned since 2011. In what can be best described as a form of Tucked Urbanism, the project proposes to build an urban park as a surface cover-up for a gravel mine.

This so-called 'economy of the landscape', which performs a spatial hybridisation of different forms of extractivism – common natural resources, barely legal real-estate development, and precarious labour – reaches full circle with the proposed use of the unearthed gravel to source a growing demand for concrete in Central London.[1]

While working on the Green Belt, the designer realised that this space is actually not a 'protected landscape', but rather a negotiable frontier for what you are able to build or not.[2] Upon learning this, the underground became all of the sudden an opportunity to explore and create a logistical platform '10 times bigger than the largest Amazon warehouse in Europe'.[3]

What representations of labour could be filmed leaving the entrails of this park? Or was this buried warehouse covered in green wash parkscape designed precisely to prevent a moment of 'Workers leaving the factory'?[4]