The project is located at Stonebridge Lock in the Lea Valley. Our client asked us to design a new sports centre for boating on the Lea River and bike rental plus spaces for community activity including meetings, educational visits from schools. The architectural idea is to construct a large roof and under this roof place two containers, a clear formal differentiation of the various activities of the center. One container houses the boats and the other contains facilities for staff; a space for community center activities for the ‘Friends of Tottenham Marshes’ and flexible un-programmed spaces. The building is designed as a pavilion. The appeal of pavilions is associated both with their casual and informal space planning and open plan arrangements; their open structure that can be programmed in many ways; their permeability to the environment and the experimental nature of their construction. Pavilions take us back to the idea of camping on a site, being closer to nature, a kind of ideal simplicity.