AA School WebsiteAA Design & Make Masters study at the Architectural Association Hooke Park
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Course Overview
AA Design & Make is a 16-month post-graduate design-build masters course in architecture that is based at Hooke Park, the Architecture Association’s woodland campus in Dorset, western England. The core outputs of the course are a collectively designed-and-made experimental building, and an individually produced design research thesis…
Design & Make Studios
The Induction Studio provides an intensive introduction to the programme’s key design methodologies; the Core Project is dedicated to individual design exploration through a brief related to Hooke Park. Design approaches and skills developed in the first term are applied in the in collective design of the Hooke Park Project…
Design & Make Thesis
Students produce their individual Design & Make Thesis during Phase 2. It forms an analysis and critique of the processes and outcome of the design and production of the Hooke Park build Project, and develops a research-based argument on the theory or practice of architectural design within a design-build context…
Hooke Park Facilities
Hooke Park is a 350-acre working forest owned by the Architectural Association and located in the West Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Designated as Ancient Woodland…
Projects: Core Studio
The Core Studio projects are full-scale inhabitable structures that are designed and built in the Hooke Park landscape. These test constructions act as vehicles to research and test architectural ideas that will be developed further in proposals for the Hooke Park Project. By building using materials from the woodland…
Projects: Buildings
The Student Lodge forms a new 4-bedroom accommodation building for residential students. It is being designed and built by the 2011-12 Design & Make cohort…