14:00
Architectural Association School of Architecture
May 10
The open day is a chance to explore our ever-changing woodland campus, learn more about its pioneering history, and visit the latest building additions resulting from our ongoing teaching and research in timber construction. The general public, AA members, staff and prospective students are invited to a special tour of the site including buildings designed by collaborations between ABK, Frei Otto, Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan, as well as the Big Shed and Wakeford Hall. The day will also allow time to ramble through the woodland, which is well-known locally for its display of bluebells in Spring.
All are welcome, booking is recommended.
Hooke Park is the woodland campus of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and home to the AA’s postgraduate Design and Make programme, where full-scale building experiments and hands-on architectural education meet.
The 150-hectare working forest is owned and operated by the AA and contains a growing educational facility for design, workshop, construction and landscape-focused activities. Underlying these activities is the opportunity to develop a critical and contemporary, rural focused discourse – foregrounding the challenges of climate change. Today the campus presents a 30-year history of experimental timber construction.
Ticket types (Eventbrite Link Coming Soon - Booking required)
Free ticket – you must arrange your own travel to Hooke Park and will be able to join a morning tour of the site.
£15 ticket - this ticket is only for AA Members and includes a light lunch and afternoon refreshments in Hooke Park
£75 ticket – this ticket is only for AA Members and return train fare from London Waterloo to Crewkerne, return transport from the train station to Hooke, a guided tour of the buildings and woodland, a light lunch and afternoon refreshments.
Staff: please contact outreach@aaschool.ac.uk to make a booking.
A BOOKING LINK AND A DETAILED PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON. PLEASE RE-OPEN THIS PAGE CLOSER TO THE DATE FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND TO BOOK YOUR PLACE.Please note:
Architectural Association, Hooke Park, Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3PH