The Wolves Lane Center is a new, Green Community Hub

Mix grass roots, green and growth, and the result could look like the Wolves Lane Center, a flowering small bag in Nordlondon. A short walk from Wood Green Station is the popular food hub hub in a consortium of community organizations, including the black-CIC, the Ubele initiative, growing collective black root and organiclea, a cooperative of workers who produce and sell on site. The center offers a variety of teaching, meeting and learning activities and to meet its growing needs in recent years in the process of improving and expanding its offer. These efforts have now borne fruits (word game), with a number of valuable new infrastructure areas unveiling in the form of three new buildings and landscape design.

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Take a tour of the rich, green rooms of the Wolves Lane Center

Architecture studios material cultures and studio Gil have worked together to create the concept of these new areas and create designs for the buildings of the Wolves Lane Center by creating participatory principles for design and construction using participatory buildings. The project also shows the use of organic-regional and low-carbon materials to increase the entire campus and create new rooms, including offices, multifunctional rooms, teaching and growth facilities, storage as well as many flexible indoor and outdoor areas to support the numerous activities of the center.

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The new community hall was led by Studio Gil, while material cultures took the staff in the office and classroom building as well as a large community sales and warehouse center. But in all aspects, the selection of the material and a uniform language in the form and texture combine the whole – both among the new structures and in terms of the way they sit in their context.

The range of natural materials used was selected for their simple maintenance and flexibility that “do not generate carbon”, according to the team in its explanation. The wood -c16 wood, which comes from smaller and local mills, forms the frame; Walls consist of wood and lime straw bale elements. Recycling and reuse were prioritized wherever possible, including all metal -model sides, and concrete waste was used to form foundations.

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Showing the feasibility and beauty of the project was an important driver for working with sustainable architectural principles and materials – which may be unconventional, but certainly offer strong solutions. “The project is a living example of how bioregional materials can be applied to an urban location,” says Paloma Gormley, director of material cultures.

'The project brings the urgently needed infrastructure to the Wolves Lane Center and supports it to build resilient communities and ecosystems. The buildings are naturally rooted on the spot and low in embodied carbon, built from a palette of natural materials, with sound, wood and debris from the location itself and straw bales from a farm only 35 miles away. Find out and save carbon materials and can ultimately be returned to the ground with minerals such as sound, such as sound. Places like the Wolves Lane Center are reminiscent of our dependence on the natural world and each other. This type of rooms are rare and it is crucial that we continue to take care of them and invest them in them. '

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Pedro Gil, Studio Gil Director, emphasizes how important everyone who worked with each other had to do this project. “It is an example of the cooperation, between two architectural practices, local teams, contractors, in every phase of the project and continues. Wolves Lane works like this. It is also an example of sustainability – environment, social and financially.