Elswick Wood Park is not confined to one specific purpose. It will be a park of the city which offers something unique in its nature and location - providing beautiful spaces along the quayside. It is a business - a social enterprise with charitable status, and a concept - a way of working with the local community to create a better environment, provide employment and reach out to those in need. Teaching methods of sustainable building and architecture in a battle to become carbon neutral. This can be people coming to classes as a hobby or to gain qualifications in building methods, horticulture or woodland management. The main workshops will include, timber (sourced locally) and eventually on site, rammed earth from local excavations and thatching, from our reeds in the on-site wheat reed field.  Workshops will be concentrating on the technology of these elements, how they work in buildings and junctions by modelling full scale and gaining a ‘hands on’ experience.

(Studio 03; Urban Stitching: Reinventing the Industrial Landscape)