The Green is a new public building which accommodates the events, exchange and collaboration that constitute contemporary Nunhead’s community life. The project creates a freestanding 307sqm low-energy, two storey building over-looking Nunhead Green, a historic village green in a conservation area in south London. AOC were appointed by Southwark Council to develop a high quality, low maintenance public building to be run by Nunhead’s Voice, a local residents’ group, now a charity. We led an extensive brief development process with the group, culminating in the shared ambition to create a new building that allowed ‘different people to do different activities in the same place at the same time’.