The design and delivery of a new exemplary sustainable low-carbon project to provide a new community hub, featuring a new cafe, Kitchen, WCs and conference / community teaching hall space. This project was developed in collaboration with the University of Lincoln’s 2nd year Design Studio and a Knowledge Transfer Partnership led by Dr Behzad Sodagar provided the concept design in 2006. Simons provided pro-bono architectural services, and Professor John Chiltern of Lincoln University provided engineering consultancy to the project.

Resource use is intentionally very low carbon using local materials; rammed earth walls, Hemlock split cladding roundwood structural timber drawn from the forests managed by Hill Holt Wood and seasoned on site, timber shingles hand split on site and a floor mosaic created by local arts group.