Hooke Park – AA School’s woodland campus

Commission to document the Architectural Association’s woodland site in Dorset, southwest England.

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.

The Architectural Association School of Architecture was originally set up in 1847 as a public forum and learner society, infamously founded by a pack of troublesome students. The UK’s oldest school of architecture, today it hosts about 750 students, mainly based in Bedford Square, London.