Hooke Park Open Day

Guided tours at 10.30am and 1.30pm.

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. A gentle reminder that you must arrange your own travel to Hooke Park.

Light refreshments, teas and coffees will be on sale throughout the day. Card payments are accepted at Hooke Park.

About Hooke Park:

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.

Please note:

· Accessible toilets are available on the site, in the main workshop.

· Bring weather-appropriate clothing and sturdy footwear as the tour will take roughly two hours and will go through woodland.

· Parking is freely available on site. Please drive slowly and watch out for speed bumps.

· The full address is Architectural Association, Hooke Park, Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3PH