Hooke Park Open Day
Hooke Park Open Day
27 April 2024
Time
10.30am–3.30pm
Location
Hooke Park, Dorsest
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 -
Free ticket – you must arrange your own travel to Hooke Park and will have the option to join a tour of the site at either 11.30am or 1.30pm.
£15 ticket - this ticket is only for AA Members and includes a light lunch and afternoon refreshments in Hooke Park
£75 ticket – this ticket includes 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.
Tours
Tours will take place at 11.30am and 1.30pm
PROGRAMME FOR THOSE WITH PAID TICKET
Depart London Waterloo at 9.20am
Arrive Crewkerne at 11.48am (No changes, journey time 2 hours 28 minutes)
Pre-paid minibus from Crewkerne train station to Hooke Park
Arrive at Hooke Park 12.30pm
Lunch for those with a pre-paid ticket
Tour of the site at 1.30pm
Refreshments at 3pm
Minibus from Hooke Park to Crewkerne at 3.40pm
Depart Crewkerne at 4.19pm
Arrive London Waterloo at 6.49pm (No changes, journey time 2 hours 30 minutes)
Please note:
- Unfortunately accessible toilets are currently unavailable on the site.
- 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.
Architectural Association, Hooke Park, Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3PH
