Our meeting hut is being built!

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We were awarded £15,000 to build a meeting hut. Funding came from Cambridge Council and the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Architecture. The latter is helping us to build it, you can follow their journey here.

Charlotte, our coordinator, writes: "Three mad days shifting hugely heavy walls to the garden, putting them up in a rough octagon for Monday's presentation and then storing them. [...] The walls aren't designed as in the model pictures in the blog but are in those places. There is a top view plan there too. 

"The students really took our request for recycled materials on board and most of the scaffolding and the scaffold boards are ex building site use and were donated. Tin cans, from the college canteens, make a great facade; woven scrap bike tyres add local flavour while woven willow gives a natural touch. This was chosen to go with our own willow hedging, which can be used for repairs. Everything is down at the garden. It is much bigger than we asked for and we still haven't got planning permission and the grant through, but we have some lovely structures to build with when we do.

"On Monday there was a photographer and one of the architects did some filming with a drone so we should have some good shots soon. Cambridge Association of Architects will do an article on it at some point. Architects have helped in this project, other than those working at the University and Alex who did the design. We have been really lucky to get so much help, but we have a lot of work ahead of us."

Exciting times at the Empty Common. Watch this space!