Hooke Park Open Day
Hooke Park Open Day
10 May 2025
Time
10.30 AM
The open day is a chance to explore our campus buildings and woodland to learn more about our history, teaching and research.
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.
Guided tour at 11am.
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.
Light refreshments, teas and coffees will be on sale
throughout the day. Please note these will be cash only, as we’re not setup to
take card payments at Hooke.
Ticket types (please use the Eventbrite link listed below):
- Free ticket – you must arrange your own travel to Hooke Park, and you’re welcome to explore the facilities at your own leisure, or join a guided tour at 11am. Spaces for the tour are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
- £20 ticket - this ticket is only for AA Members and it includes a guided tour of the buildings and woodland, a light lunch and afternoon refreshments. You must arrange your own travel to Hooke Park.
- £75 ticket – this ticket is only for AA Members and includes 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.
To book your ticket, please use the link provided here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hooke-park-open-day-tickets-1312942258639?aff=oddtdtcreator
Staff: please contact outreach@aaschool.ac.uk to make a booking.
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