The city block described by Commercial Street, Brick Lane, Fournier Street and Fashion Street is where east meets west, where art lives, alongside commerce, amongst the community. Fashion Street and Fournier Street provide a clear passage, whilst Christ Church, the community gardens, back gardens, back extensions, boundary walls, the primary school and its playgrounds describe a mixed transition. This central reservation of use, division and interaction between West and East is about where things meet. For the school it’s about opportunity, learning and security. For the neighbourhood it’s a heart of gold. Five years ago this wonderful place was disjointed, dishevelled and underused. The public garden is small, open daily, the community gardens and youth centre, shut, the playgrounds and school undersized and under capacity. The Primary School on Brick Lane faces east, Christ Church Gardens faces west and the back of both has become a patch for shadowy behaviour since the Youth Centre closed. The vision of the church, school, council and community has been to unify the site with the new nursery & community building as a hub. In this particular place, the new building can make a new west face for the school and a welcoming east end of the gardens, a broad walled walk next to the church, a stepped back sheltered invitation from Fournier Street and an open and secure west end to the school playgrounds. Made up of community rooms, a small hall and the youngest school classes, the new building is a garden structure, timber, glass and zinc against a brick wall, a sort of squashed aisled barn, opening out to encourage direct relationships between those using the crypt, the gardens, the playgrounds and from Fournier Street inbetween