Saturday Day Trip
– 11:00
Hooke Park

AA Membership will lead a series of spring events at Hooke Park this bluebell season.

Hooke Park Open Saturdays will take place during bluebell season with dates to be confirmed dependant on the bluebell calendar.
See Bluebell Watch, www.aaschool.ac.uk/aalife/hookepark/hooke.php for updates.

In addition, on Saturday 28 April AA members are invited to a special tour of the site that will incorporate existing buildings designed by collaborations between ABK, Frei Otto, Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan, as well as the recently completed Big Shed (see below). After lunch, the group will be led on a ramble through the bluebell-adorned woodland, weather permitting.
For more information, see www.aaschool.ac.uk/membership/benefits/events.php

Tickets
Including return train from London: Members £55pp, AA Students £45pp
Excluding travel: Members and Students £25pp

The AA’s Hooke Park is a 350-acre working forest in Dorset, southwest England. It is a unique site for experimentation and fabrication for visiting groups of AA tutors and students, to run  activities in the workshop or within the forest itself as an alternative to the central London environment of Bedford Square.

An exciting new phase of development is underway at Hooke Park – the AA aims to develop the campus as a site for exploring rural architectures, crafts of construction, and sustainable timber technologies. A new graduate design course, Design & Make, based at Hooke Park is now in its second year. Together with students in Diploma 19, this year they have designed and built the first of a series of planned new structures. This is part of a strategic plan for Hooke Park, which has been developed by the AA in consultation with West Dorset Council, the local community and professional advisors and consultants.