DIP18-1 Hooke Cookbook

Diploma 18

History Masterplans Structures on Campus Design + Make Permitted Development Living in the forest Ruins in Progress Family Tree Beneath the Ground

A Survey of Hooke Park

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Hydrology Fauna Flora The “Island�

Woodland Management Life and Death of A Tree Instances of Self-Reliant Living Breaking Bread Dorset at Large

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Ke Yang, Lydia Liu, Lydia Liu, Nicole Ng, Joyce Ng, Lydia Liu,

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Edited by Connie Lynn Tang Co-edited by Ele Mun, Nicole Ng, Andrew Robertson and Ke Yang Cover design by Ele Mun Index by Shreya Kochatta Footnotes and bibliography by Sorana-Stefana Mazilu and Alice Nobel

DIPLOMA 18

SHIDI FU SHREYA KOCHATTA SORANA-STEFANA MAZILU LYDIA CHO YING LIU ELE MUN JOYCE KA KEI NG NICOLE NG HUI MIN ALICE NOBEL ANDREW ROBERTSON CLARA SCHWARZ CONNIE LYNN TANG KE YANG LIONEL DEVLIEGER AUDE-LINE DULIÈRE MAARTEN GIELEN JAMES WESTCOTT

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prelude

Diploma 18 would like to thank the HOOKE PARK TEAM, especially ZACHARY MOLLICA and CHRISTOPHER SADD for providing us with precious information, CHARLIE, GEORGIE and TIA CORRYWRIGHT for sharing their intimate knowledge of the site, as well as MARTIN SELF, JEAN-NICOLAS DACKIW and EDWARD COE, without whom this publication would not have been possible.

PRELUDE Far from the all-too-often congested hallways of Bedford Square, Hooke Park can be seen as a space of respite. The students of the Design + Make programme, permanently based in the woodland campus, are surrounded by the very materials with which they work and they operate close to if not at the very forefront of timber construction technology. For visiting students and tutors from Bedford Square who wish to break free from a scale or method otherwise confined to that which is available within the walls of 32 to 39, it becomes a satellite testing ground. Having to go through a process of booking for accommodation and meals ahead of time, one could not however help but to often carry an aloofness, a kind of touristic attitude. For neighbours, their dogs and a horse named Bluebell, it is a place for a leisurely stroll. For at least one local cabby, an ‘alien film set’.

Perhaps as important as what currently is in Hooke Park is what could have been. The many previously proposed masterplans allowed us to first understand some of the campus’ past aspirations. We then studied every one of the structures realised before sitting down for a chat with Zachary Mollica, who along with others have and will continue to see the campus’ fruition.

We’ve made our way underground before burrowing out again to study the flora and fauna that depend on the many layers that lie beneath, and we were given new perspectives on systems of care and maintenance of the ecosystem by Christopher Sadd. Georgie and Tia Corrywright give us a glimpse behind the doors of the kitchen and teach us how to make some of Hooke Park’s famously delicious dishes. These are but some of the many realities of Hooke Park’s past and present compiled into this volume before you.

Diploma 18 continues to propose new forms of occupation within the campus. Whether these visions take place in the immediate or far future, many of them have managed to find a foothold while being unfettered by current limitations.

How could we help identify and defend agendas for Hooke Park that do not only address the needs of visitors from Bedford Square, but also take into account local aspirations from humans and non-humans alike?

Ele Mun and Nicole Ng

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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 21 HISTORY 23 CAMPUS MASTERPLANS 31 STRUCTURES ON CAMPUS 49 DESIGN + MAKE 103 PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT 125 LIVING IN THE FOREST 145 RUINS IN PROGRESS 173 FAMILY TREE 217 THE ECOSYSTEM OF HOOKE PARK 231 BENEATH THE GROUND 239 HYDROLOGY 271 FAUNA 297 FLORA 323 THE “ISLAND” 363 WOODLAND MANAGEMENT 419 LIFE AND DEATH OF A TREE 457 INSTANCES OF SELF-RELIANT LIVING 493 BREAKING BREAD 511 DORSET AT LARGE 555

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table of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 596 BIOGRAPHIES 598 BIBLIOGRAPHY 600 INDEX 602

AERIAL VIEW

source: Google Earth, 2017

INTRODUCTION Hooke Park is the Architectural Association’s woodland campus located in Dorset, southwest England. The 140-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 new rural architectures and an ethic of material self-sufficiency.

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introduction

Hooke Park is used by the AA throughout the year for activities in three categories: visits by London-based units, the Hooke Park-based Design + Make graduate school programme and for Visiting School short courses.

HOOKE PARK Ordnance Survey, 1945-1947

source: The Francis Frith collection

HISTORY

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history

In 1947, Hooke Park was cleared of 90% of its trees and was replanted as a beech and Norway spruce plantation. Today, Hooke Park is working towards the transformation of the wood from an evenage structure to a mixedage woodland of greater aesthetic and biodiversity value.

FOR AUCTION OF SALE OF HOOKE PARK ESTATE source: Messrs. Fox & Sons

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TIMELINE OF HOOKE PARK

Illustrated by Connie Lynn Tang, 2019 source: Hooke Park Timeline

A 60 YEAR OLD WORKING WOODLAND

In 1947, the estate was cleared to feed the desperate post-war shortage of timber and was replanted in the early 1950s with a mixture of beech (fagus sylvetica) and Norway spruce (picea abies) with some oak and remnant fragments of alder, willow, and hazel.

Beech was an important commercial species feeding the large volume UK furniture manufacturers of the time whilst Norway Spruce was the leading structural and general use timber throughout Europe.

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history

The Parnham Trust purchased Hooke Park in 1983 and started the negotiation for planning permission to build an educational and residential faculty in the woods.

INHABITANTS BUILDINGS

Charlie and Georgie Corrywrig

PROTO WORKSHOP WESTMINSTER -TYPE LODGE HOUSE

HOUSES FOR HOOKE

MASTERPLANS

Edward Cullinan commission

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Second Masterplan by

Richard Burton, Frei Otto and Buro Happold

Clear Cutting

TREES

2 3

First Masterplan by

Edward Cullinan Architects

Third Masterplan by

Feilden Clegg Architects

Replanting

Post War

Redwood

Replanting

P

Paulet defines current Hooke Park

D E

Duke of Cleveland

Earl of Sandwich

S F Salt family Unilever Pension Fund

Forestry Commission

J P John Makepeace purchases Parnham House

Parnham Trust purchases Hooke Park

EARLY HISTORY

1999

1996

1994

1993

1989

1987

1983

1976

1951

1949

1946

1919

1840s

1794

1660

1200

Deer Park

OWNERSHIP

TIMBER SALES

Broad leaves and Conifers

PARNHAM ERA

COURSES

Martin Self Founding Director of Design + Make programme Design + Make programme and “Hooke Park Build” visiting school Maeda workshops by Shin Egashira Regular AA unit visits

ght and family

Zachary Mollica

CARETAKER’S BIG HOUSE SHED

S.LODGE BIOMASS WOOD SAWMILL WAKEFORD TIMBER S. BOILER CHIP SHELTER HALL LIBRARY SHELTER HOUSE BARN

STRATEGIC PLAN

PARK HOUSE

Fielden Clegg Architects commission

by Andrew Freear and Elena Bartek

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Fourth Masterplan by

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Carlos Villanueva Brandt Architects

2001

2000

NORTH LODGE

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION

OVERVIEW OF HOOKE PARK CAMPUS FROM DRONE FOOTAGE Ke Yang, March 2020

PROTOTYPE HOUSE WITH RICHARD BURTON, JOHN MAKEPEACE AND FREI OTTO (L-R). source: AA Photo Library

CAMPUS MASTERPLANS

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Hooke Park was set up as a school for woodland industries. A range of buildings were designed that explored different aspects of timber technology in order to investigate how timber, in particular, the local forest thinnings, could be better utilised. It also aimed to create a working demonstration of how a sustainable living and working community could be established in the countryside.

campus masterplans

Ke Yang, Connie Lynn Tang

MASTERPLAN

Richard Burton, Frei Otto, Buro Happold, 1983 source: AA Archive

Realised Building

1983 Richard Burton, Frei Otto and Buro Happold Richard Burton, a former trustee, Frei Otto and Buro Happold produced the first masterplan for the woodland school.

The Prototype House (1987), The Workshop (1989) and the unbuilt Communal Hall were the main fruits of this collaboration addressing the three problems of wet and round wood construction: timber in tension, timber in compression and how to get a flat floor. These were the only two buildings built from this masterplan proposal as well as Frei Otto’s only two built works in the UK. The masterplan shows the extent of the buildings envisaged by the Parnham Trust School for Woodland Industries and first described the dream of an exemplary community revolving around the education of students and public alike, deploying the unrecognised potential of building with forest thinnings.

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campus masterplans

In this masterplan, The Workshop is linked to the Communal Building, the energy centre and the surrounding arcs of residences for staff and students, with all of them combining into a village.

MASTERPLAN

Cullinan Studio, 1997 source: AA Archive

ITERATIONS

Cullinan Studio, 1997

source: Amina Yusupova

Realised Building Inherited Building

1994 Cullinan Studio Following the construction of the first two buildings and their use by the forestry school, a new masterplan was commissioned to Ted Cullinan (who was a fellow student of Richard Burton at the AA). His interests were in tune with the request to develop a number of replicable dwelling prototypes that would develop the research carried out in the first two buildings, as well as provide a folio of exemplary buildings at Hooke and advertising the advantages of building in this manner.

Cullinan designed and obtained planning permission for five additional houses of which Westminster Lodge was the first one, and only one, to be built out of the five exemplary designs for “Houses at Hooke�. It was intended for housing the students who would be transferred from the furniture school at Parnham to the facilities at Hooke.

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campus masterplans

The building was never used due to a shortfall in students wishing to do the course.

MASTERPLAN

Feilden Clegg Architects, 1999 source: AA Archive

Inherited Building

1999 Feilden Clegg Architects A final attempt by the Parnham Trust to consolidate the development saw the commissioning of Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects to design an accommodation block that used the material agenda and applied it to the process of factory prefabrication. This was the last building to be designed for Hooke Park and it was developed in conjunction with the engineers Buro Happold who had been involved with the three former buildings.

The foundation techniques used on the lodge were used again, with footings for the Park House laid in February 2001 on the clearing below the Workshop. In a clear move away from the site-crafted design basis of the three exploratory buildings, Park House developed an advanced system of offsite prefabrication using the round-wood products of Hooke Park.

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campus masterplans

As part of the last master plan, extra workshop facilities were proposed on the site of the current car park. However, Parnham Trust decided that Hooke Park would be disposed of and the construction was stopped.

2009 STRATEGIC PLAN

Carlos Villanueva Brandt Architects, 2009 source: AA Archive

Realised Building Inherited Building

2009 Carlos Villanueva Brandt Architects The AA took ownership of Hooke Park in 2002. The 2008 Hooke Park Strategic Plan was put together by Andrew Freear and Elena Barthel after consultancy with an advisory group, a team of consultants, AA students, and staff.

(Including the existing Hooke Park residents, AA tutors and students of Diploma 9 (2006-2007) who made proposals for the site.

The 2008 Strategic Plan identified existing problems and outlined a vision of academic pedagogy and masterplanning which included ethics for sustainable development and community relationship. The plan helped set up the Design + Make programme in 2012 and provide guidance for the existing visiting workshops such as the Maeda Twisting concrete workshops from 2008 and the Summer Build Programme from 2010.

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campus masterplans

The masterplan for the development of the campus was redrawn and construction restarted in 2011 for a new workshop, accommodation and teaching spaces, including the “Big Shed” Assembly Workshop, The Caretaker’s House, Student Lodges in 2012 and The Timber Seasoning Shelter in 2013.

campus masterplans

source: AA Archive

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PLANNING APPLICATION DOCUMENTS FOR 2009 STRATEGIC PLAN

Carlos Villanueva Brandt Architects, West Dorset District Council, Ambios, Buro Happold & Christopher Sadd, 2009

HOOKE PARK MASTERPLAN Richard Burton, Frei Otto and Buro Happold, 1983

HOOKE PARK MASTERPLAN Cullinan Studio, 1994

NEW DEVELOPME

Feilden Clegg A

Building Footprint

Living (㎡)

Work (㎡)

Leisure (㎡)

Living (㎡)

Other (㎡)

Work (㎡)

Leisure (㎡)

Other (㎡)

Living (㎡)

Prototype House

315

Town House

74

Park House

522

Student House

850

Village House

180

Oak House

181

Workshop

702

Shelter

225

Autonomous House

277

Study Hall

740

Ecotechnology House

277

Westminster Lodge

229

Westminster Lodge

229

Workshop

Boiler House

10

Wood Storage Subtotal Total

1165

1442

0 2657

40

Workshop

702

50

Study Hall

740

Training Workshop Study Centre

Reflectory

105

Seminar Room

Saw Mill

80

Boiler House

50

Saw Mill

130

Boiler House

Subtotal

985

1442

Total

105 2662

Refectory

Wood Storage Subtotal Total

COMPARING FLOOR AREA IN DIFFERENT HOOKE PARK MASTERPLANS Ke Yang, 2019

1209

Work (㎡)

Leisure (㎡)

Carlos Villanueva Brandt, 2009

Other (㎡)

Living (㎡)

Work (㎡)

Leisure (㎡)

CURRENT CAMPUS PLAN 2020

Other (㎡)

Living (㎡)

Westminster Lodge

229

Westminster Lodge

229

New Student Houses

480

Caretaker's House

150

Teacher Houses

480

South Lodge

93

Caretaker's House

189

North Lodge

78

Work (㎡)

Leisure (㎡)

Other (㎡)

702

Workshop

702

Workshop

702

840

Offices

40

Big Shed

559

620

Study Centre

200

Wakeford Hall

82

200

Design Studio

90

Dark Room

56

Seminar Room

90

Foundry

31

80

New Workshops

150

Refectory

105

50

Refectory

105

Outdoor Cooking

69

210

Kitchen and Dining

90

Timber Shelter

184

340

Toilets

20

Woodchip Barn

250 54

105

2362

105 4016

Shed

500

Sawmill Shelter

Boiler House

50

Biomass Boiler House

550

Subtotal

Subtotal Total

1378

1272

215 3415

Total

72 550

1430

174

376

2530

Comparing the floor area of the proposed Hooke Park Masterplans to the floor area of the existing campus shows that the current area of built living space is about half of what was proposed.

campus masterplans

Architects, 1999

HOOKE PARK STRATEGIC PLAN

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ENT MASTERPLAN

HOOKE PARK MASTERPLAN Richard Burton, Frei Otto and Buro Happold, 1983

HOOKE PARK MASTERPLAN Cullinan Studio, 1994

Built Existing Modified Outline Proposed Abandoned

EVOLUTION OF MASTERPLANS : BUILT AND ABANDONED PROPOSALS Ke Yang, 2019

NEW DEVELOPME

Feilden Clegg A

Carlos Villanueva Brandt, 2009

CURRENT CAMPUS PLAN 2020

campus masterplans

Architects, 1999

HOOKE PARK STRATEGIC PLAN

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ENT MASTERPLAN

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AERIAL SHOT OF THE PROTOTYPE HOUSE, FIRST STRUCTURE TO BE BUILT IN HOOKE PARK Parnham Trust, 1983 source: AA Archive

STRUCTURES ON CAMPUS Shidi Fu, Andrew Robertson, Ke Yang

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structures on campus

The primary structures are built works from the different eras of Hooke Park.

Since the AA has inhabited this place, there are annually accumulated projects from the Design + Make programme to fill the current masterplan.

PROTOTYPE HOUSE

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2019

PROTOTYPE HOUSE 1987

TEAM Architect Richard Burton (ABK) and Frei Otto Engineer Ted Happold and Michael Dickson (Buro Happold)

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN 1:100

structures on campus

Construction William Moorwood (ABK) and Dowding & Udall

PROTOTYPE HOUSE Parnham Trust, 1983 source: AA Archives

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structures on campus

PROTOTYPE HOUSE Parnham Trust, 1983

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE PIER FOUNDATIONS

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

THE WORKSHOP

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2019

THE WORKSHOP 1989

TEAM Architect Richard Burton (ABK) and Frei Otto

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN NTS

structures on campus

Engineer Ted Happold and Michael Dickson (Buro Happold)

THE WORKSHOP

Richard Burton & Frei Otto, 1989 source: AA Archives

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structures on campus

THE WORKSHOP

Richard Burton & Frei Otto, 1989

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE SLAB-ON-GRADE FOUNDATION

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

WESTMINSTER LODGE

image: Aude-Line Dulière, March 2020

WESTMINSTER LODGE 1995

TEAM Architect Edward Cullinan Architects Engineer Ted Happold and Michael Dickson (Buro Happold)

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN 1:200

structures on campus

Construction William Moorwood (ABK) and Dowding & Udall

WESTMINSTER LODGE ABK Architects, 1994 source: AA Archives

WESTMINSTER LODGE ABK Architects, 1994

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE PIER & SHEAR WALL FOUNDATION

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

CARETAKER’S HOUSE

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2019

CARETAKER’S HOUSE 2012

TEAM Students AA Intermediate Unit 2 2009-10 (Schematic Design) Teaching Team Charles Walker, Martin Self Executive Architect Piers Taylor, Invisible Studio Cladding and Fit-out Design Hannah Durham Engineer Buro Happold

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN NTS

structures on campus

Contractor Greenheart Sustainable Construction

CARETAKER’S HOUSE CONSTRUCTION Invisible Studio, 2012

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE FILLED STEEL PILE FOUNDATIONS

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

BIG SHED

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2019

BIG SHED 2012 TEAM Students Nozomi Nakabayashi (Design + Make); Elena Gaider, Eyal Shaviv, Olivia Putihrai, Samuel Nelson, Sanem Alper (Diploma Unit 19) Teaching Team Martin Self, Piers Taylor, Kate Darby, Charley Brentnall Executive Architect Mitchell Taylor Workshop Engineer Atelier One, Buro Happold

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN NTS

structures on campus

Contractor Greenheart Sustainable Construction

THE BIG SHED

ABK Architects, 1994

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE SLAB-ON-GRADE FOUNDATION

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

NORTH LODGE

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2019

NORTH LODGE 2013

TEAM Students Thiago JosĂŠ Barros, Elizabeth Cunningham, Bojana Grebenar, Hugo Garcia Urrutia, Natalia Iliadi, Abdulla Omar Asghar Khan, Evangelia Papageorgiou, Karjvit Rirermvanich (Design & Make)

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN NTS

structures on campus

Teaching Team Martin Self, Piers Taylor, Kate Darby, Charley Brentnall

NORTH LODGE CONSTRUCTION AA Design + Make, 2013

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE PAD FOUNDATION

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

TIMBER SEASONING SHELTER image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2019

TIMBER SEASONING SHELTER 2014

TEAM Students Meghan Dorrian, Kawit Ko-Udomvit, Omri Menashe, Glen Stellmacher Teaching Team Charley Brentnall, Stewart Dodd, Martin Self Workshop and Site Supervision Charlie Corrywright, Edward Coe, Jack Hawker Structural Engineer Arup Membrane Supply Architen Landrell Timber Testing Nick Gathercole, Bath University

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN 1:200

structures on campus

Foundation Construction Beacon Foundations

TIMBER SEASONING SHELTER AA Design + Make, 2014

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE STRIP FOUNDATION

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

SOUTH LODGE

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2020

SOUTH STUDENT LODGE 2014

TEAM Students Carlos Chen, Stephanie Cramer, Sarina Adelle Da Costa Gomez, Iosif Dakoronias-Marina, Elizabeth Lawrence Teaching Team Martin Self, Charley Brentnall, Stewart Dodd, Piers Taylor, Forester: Christopher Sadd

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN NTS

structures on campus

Consultants Arup, Buro Happold, BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials, Brooks Devlin, C&G Safety and Environmental, Oculus Building Consultancy Ltd, Peter George Electrical Contractor, Southwest Eco Systems

SOUTH LODGE

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE FILLED STEEL PILE FOUNDATIONS

structures on campus

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2019

WOODCHIP BARN

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2020

WOODCHIP BARN 2016

TEAM Students Mohaimeen Islam, Zachary Mollica, Sahil Shah, Swetha Vegesana, Yung-Chen Yang Teaching Team Toby Burgess, Charley Brentnall, Martin Self, Emmanuel Vercruysse Workshop and Site Supervision Charlie Corrywright, Edward Coe, Jack Hawker Forester Christopher Sadd Structural Engineer Arup Robotic Developer Pradeep Devadass,

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN 1:200

structures on campus

Constuction Team Timothy Hallbery, James Vooght, Aurimas Bukauskas, Summerbuild Volunteers

WOODCHIP BARN

AA Design + Make, 2016

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE SLAB-ON-GRADE FOUNDATION WITH PILES

structures on campus

image: Diploma 18, 2020, Hooke Park

SAWMILL SHELTER

image: Aude-Line Dulière, 2020

SAWMILL SHELTER 2017

TEAM Students En-Kai Kuo, Evgenia Spyridonos, Eleni McKirahan, Rolando Madrigal, Trianzani Sulshi, Paolo Salvetti, Diego Saenz Penagos Teaching Team Martin Self, Emmanuel Vercruysse, Zachary Mollica, Charley Brentnall, Jack Draper Workshop and Site Supervision Charlie Corrywright, Edward Coe, Jack Hawker Forester Christopher Sadd Engineer Arup

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

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PLAN 1:100

structures on campus

Aluminium Cladding Phase 1 Design + Make Student 2017

SAWMILL SHELTER

AA Design + Make, 2017

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE SLAB FOUNDATION WITH ADDITIONAL REINFORCEMENT

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

WAKEFORD HALL

image: Diploma 18, 2020

WAKEFORD HALL LIBRARY 2018 TEAM Students Aitor Almarez, Pedro Bran, Kevin Kim, Mariela Reyes, Veda Barath, Xin Tu

Teaching Team Martin Self, Emmanuel Vercruysse, Zachary Mollica, Jack Draper Workshop and Site Supervision Charlie Corrywright, Edward Coe, Jack Hawker, William Moorwood Forester Christopher Sadd Engineer Arup

PLAN 1:200

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

Ground

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structures on campus

Robotic Developer Michael Arnett

WAKEFORD HALL

AA Design + Make, 2018

drawn by Andrew Robertson, London, 2019

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CONCRETE SLAB-ON-GRADE FOUNDATION

structures on campus

source: AA Archives

previous image:

DESIGN+MAKE STUDENTS CONSTRUCTING ROOF OF CABIN WITH HAND CHOPPED RED CEDAR SHINGLES Aude-Line Dulière, October 2019

DESIGN + MAKE Shreya Kochatta

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Hooke Park is home to the Design + Make course.

The course aims to push forward the current research and expertise in timber technologies and fabrication methods. The students live in and around the woodland, having a rich experience of the rural life. The following chapter contains interviews with the students and tutors about their life at the woodland campus.

D18

To what extent do you think Hooke Park engages with its wider context?

ZM

Parts of the local community is hugely invested in Hooke Park. They have been walking their dogs through this place long before the AA acquired Hooke Park, and in a uniquely English way, have developed a level of ownership over the property. There is a real level of investment in the place, and in its forests, as some even join us for tree pruning!

However, outside of our open days there has not been a lot of engagement with the architecture school side of Hooke Park. Only a few of our student projects have really tried to engage with the community. In a way you could uproot the forest and move the school somewhere else and it would be just the same thing, as the vernacular of Dorset has not massively influenced the development of Hooke Park.

Zachary Mollica is the warden of AA School’s Hooke Park campus and specialist lecturer to its Design + Make programme.

There are people five minutes down the road that still have no idea that we are here - whereas there are others across the world that make a pilgrimage to come to see Hooke Park. Our recent Bridport Times article was a nice opportunity to make sure that everyone knows what we do behind the unmarked gate, hidden in the woods.

Zachary talks to Ele and Andrew about Hooke Park and the technological process behind past projects.

The text is transcribed by Ele Mun and Andrew Robertson from an interview with Zachary, conducted on 11th of May 2020 over video call.

D18

We have seen quite a few people poking their heads through the doors of the workshop to get a good view of what is going on!

ZM

The inside of the workshop is a particular interest to visitors, you will be there and suddenly notice four people standing on the mezzanine who have just let themselves in.

There are two formal rights-of-way through the property and neither of those come anywhere near the main campus. However, I believe the school has taken the correct approach, that the whole property is available for public use, so long as people are good to it. It is nice to offer Hooke Park as an amenity for the community.

image: Cheyne, Bridport Times March 2020

D18

What kind of relationship does Hooke have with the local planning authorities ?

ZM

In my time, it has been wholly positive and beneficial. There is a real backing for the idea of developing the campus with the students, they like the idea of it growing and using the materials here.

We also work with building control providers, fire safety officers, and other smaller groups within the various council organisations. Now that the initial outline planning permission for the campus has expired, discussions about the future will start. It is a good moment for the school to think about the next 10-20 years.

D18

In your time in Hooke Park, what has been the biggest change that you have noticed in terms of forest management ?

ZM

Six year in the scale of forestry is not much time at all. Nothing massive has changed, but we are starting to see the fruits of Chris’ work. (Chris is the Head Forester of Hooke Park) There have been a few compartments that have been clear-felled and replanted with more interesting native species. There has been a continuing effort to thin, to prune and to maintain the trees that we have. Chris has certainly pushed in the last six years to know more about multi-storied forests to have a more diverse canopy.

There have been a few areas that have been felled or treated in a way that is intended to increase the biodiversity of the site by providing habitats. This ranges from small interventions, like leaving dead trees, to larger ones like radically clear-cutting an area to bring light onto a stream. In short, not much has changed, but the right direction for the site is starting to emerge.

D18

You started here as a student and now you are both a tutor and the Warden of Hooke Park. Has your change in role changed your perspective on anything?

ZM

From a teaching perspective, I have tried to stick to the pedagogy that I fell in love with as a student here while working on the Woodchip Barn. On the management side, what has been unique for me has been approaching the role with my six years of experience in mind.

In some ways I feel uniquely qualified for the role, having experienced this place as a student, as a member of the academic staff and as a member of the administrative staff. I try to keep all these stakeholders in mind.

D18

How do you see Hooke Park and the Design + Make programme within the pedagogical landscape of the UK ?

ZM

Within the UK it is entirely unique as an opportunity. It provides a space to explore tangible things. I refer to that quite vaguely because I think that that should apply from a Master’s of Science, to a Master’s of Architecture, to a Master’s of Arts, to everything in between. Hooke Park fundamentally should provide the space for students and tutors to engage with their projects tangibly.

That does not mean that everything needs to be built, it does not mean that everything should be a building or even recognisably architecture. I think the fact that this place, whether in its landscape or its buildings should provide that opportunity to touch things and to feel that they are real, that is what is unique about Hooke Park, that is what I want to push.

Design + Make exists within a general field of design and build programmes. We have certainly had synergies with Rural Studio and various programmes that are at many schools of architecture right now, but what is unique to Design + Make is that we exist in a funny middle. When we deal with experts in low-tech projects, we are the tech guys.

When we deal with groups like ICD (Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart) and ETH Zurich that are heavily technological, we are the weird tree people. I think that Design + Make is uniquely trying to make the case that digital tools should enable us to use natural materials differently.

Implicit in our work is a critique of the idea that digital tools have just been used to allow industrialisation to go crazy. Certainly, this is a personal agenda, but I think that our programme asks, ‘What does it mean to use digital tools in weird ways? What does it mean to use them against a material that moves every night because it is drying? What does it mean to do so in a forest that is growing?” There is an inherent absurdity to our work. I sum it up with ‘I want to live in a forest, but I’d like to do so with an iPhone.’ Hooke should not be a backwards looking place; Hooke should be a place where worlds get mashed together as we embrace the funny middle.

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What is interesting is that the permission we have is entirely unique. Sure, there are others that are somewhat similar but to be granted the ability to build not only a building but a campus in the middle of the woodlands, in the middle of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Dorset of all places, is exceptional. There is always an awareness in my mind that we need to make sure that we are good to them to continue receiving this level of support.

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What is it like permanently living in Hooke Park? Is there any stand-out moment you could share with us?

ZM

I would push back on the permanent because I will not be here forever, it is something that I know for myself. I came to Hooke six years ago expecting to be here for 16 months and aside from going home to get a visa, basically just never left. I have done that because Hooke brings together all the things I care about. It is a space I can go mountain biking in, it is a space I can build things in, it is a space where I can live with the land, with people in a way that I have always imagined wanting back home.

Hooke is a place where a five-day work week does not make sense, there are weekends that you work outdoors because the weather’s there. Time seems to blur together.

It is hard to believe that I have been here for six years and it is easy to understand how people like Chris, Charlie, Georgie have been here for so long.

Putting the Woodchip Barn up on site is my stand-out moment. I fear that I have already accomplished what may be the most impressive structural project in my life. That was inevitably an amazing moment, along with being tasked with taking on this role.

To have Eva arrive at the school and put an immense amount of trust in me to fill some big shoes left by Martin as he stepped down from the Director of Hooke Park role, was another high for me.

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What are your dreams for Hooke Park going forward ?

ZM

I think the biggest change needs to be an increase in numbers, I think Hooke as it is currently is great but there is so much that you could add. Looking at a grown Hooke Park, let us say a Hooke Park that has at least 16 full time students mirroring visiting groups, because what that would enable us to increase the staffing. Although all of us in Hooke as staff are, as I have described somewhere in a piece of writing recently, experts of something, there is loads of niches in the middle that exist. So I want to see Hooke grow to a space that we could have a number 2 for Chris, I want to see Hooke grow to a space that you might have a full time member of staff looking towards landscape and agriculture.

I feel that the agendas are all right, we just need more energy. Hooke is a big property; we just need more physical energy. There is a level of ambition that I would love to see the AA approach Hooke with. Certainly, in the short term it would cost money, but in the long term it could be one of the things that makes the AA unique in the next decade. In a moment where renting and living in London (particularly in the face of COVID), is going to be a lot more difficult, and face a lot more questions. For the AA to use Hooke Park to answer some of those questions, that would be the dream.

I do not think existing agendas should be removed or changed; they just need to be added to. We have had Master’s of Science students whose work maybe should have been Master’s of Fine Arts. I would like us to have Master’s of Fine Arts students here, to have our PhD programmes continue thinking about this space, and to look at providing writing retreats, underlining that you do not have to come to Hooke just to build something. All we really need to add to this place is energy.

“It is a good moment for the school to think about the next 10-20 years.”

Zachary Mollica

“Hooke should be a place where worlds get mashed together as we embrace the funny middle.”

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Zachary Mollica

“I have done scripting and other things.

Well, scripting is good, but I am not interested in standing behind computers.“

Carolina Menezes,

MSc Design + Make 2019-2020 Shreya interviewed some students in order to gain more information on the everyday routine of the Design + Make students in Hooke Park. The format for the interview was informal and they were asked to select a place where they were comfortable to talk or liked spending time. Here Carolina is sitting in the Foundry where there is a kiln and students fire ceramics.

image: Shreya Kochatta, 2019

Why did you choose this course?

CM

I have done scripting and other things. Well, scripting is good, but I am not interested in standing behind computers. This looked interesting, you can learn about vernacular, so yeah, it made sense.

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Did AA play any role in your selection process?

CM

Not really. This is a different school. You know what I mean? Like we get all these mails about parties in London, they are irrelevant.

It won’t be possible for me to go from here and vice versa of course.

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Do you ever go for a walk in the park? Like how does the park help you in your daily life?

CM

Well, when we were staying in Westminster Lodge, I used to go for nice walks every day.

Now since we have moved to a different location not so much. I do prefer cycling to the school though.

D18

Where are you staying right now?

CM

In a B&B on a farm. We usually share the two cars provided by the school to come here.

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How do you feel about having your school in the forest?

CM

I feel privileged, lucky to be here. Like I won’t be here if I was not privileged. The forest is a resource; it is an entity – I don’t necessary feel it is for me.

D18

You have studied in an architecture school before, do you miss anything?

CM

I miss exercising, mountains – things to play in. I suggested that we should build a skate park or ninja warrior zone for Halloween.

I also miss interactions – like students who come here we never really interact with them. We sit on different tables in the canteen during lunch. You guys are amongst the first we have talked to.

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What about your course and your routine?

CM

We have a very free schedule. We have seminars Tuesday and Friday. Rest of the time we are in workshop. I come here every day because it is better to be here than at home.

D18

What were you working on right now when I disturbed you, sorry about that?

CM

It is alright. I was working on the induction build. Charlie is in till 5 pm, so I usually work till 5.

D18

What do you think about having more students at Hooke Park?

CM

Yeah, why not. In my previous school there were just 30 students, so I am used to a small size. But if we can have more people to interact with it is obviously good. As long as they don’t take all of Charlie’s attention.

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Do you get to interact with the locals?

CM

Well it as just been one month and no I haven’t interacted much. But Omar is the person who knows a lot. You should ask him.

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“We are like a family here. We have fights and arguments but we still share and stay together.

The drama, the fun, the quarrels are nothing short of a typical family.“

Mohammad Omar Eqbal,

M.Arch Design + Make 2019-2020 Shreya interviewed some students in order to gain more information on the everyday routine of the Design + Make students in Hooke Park. The format for the interview was informal and they were asked to select a place where they were comfortable to talk or liked spending time. Here Omar is sitting outside the workshop.

image: Shreya Kochatta, 2019

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Why did you choose this course?

I have always enjoyed the making part of design more. I came across this course Design + Make, set in a forest It sounded amazing. Before this I lived in Bangalore, the IT hub of India, very noisy massive traffic, super urban. Here I feel my general health has improved.

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So, you love it here? Why so much?

Yes absolutely. I did my schooling and bachelors in India in Manipal University.

There were set times and rules, everything was so managed. Firstly, the tutors are excellent. I can manage my time easily here and have time to do more. Also, Charlie, yes there is only one Charlie.

Do you think being in a forest helps?

Yes, definitely it does. When I feel crowded by my thoughts, I take a walk. It is allowed for a change in lifestyle, I feel much healthier here. I enjoy the environment.

What do you think of this school in the forest?

I feel like somehow the ecosystem works. I know coming from London you feel what do these guys do here, but trust me it is nice.

Wi-Fi is good, we have 1-day Amazon delivery except for the public transport we have everything. Yes sometimes, I do feel I am sick of seeing the same faces but then I go to London, stay and party for a week and honestly, I feel thankful when I come back.

How do you guys do it there?

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What about the connection with larger school community?

OE

I am the student representative, so I get to go and attend meetings. I do agree there is not enough interaction but when groups like yours come to Hooke Park. We get to know about your curriculum.

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OE

What about interaction with others? Like people studying different courses or the locals.

OE

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Yes, we do lack in cross-fertilization of ideas.

It is just Design + Make students here. As far as locals are concerned, I have a good relationship with them. But it is just me I love to talk and inquire. I just stop while biking and talk to people, ask them what they are doing. It is fun. Yes, the old people here enjoy that (he laughs).

Well, I can never do that in London. People will report me to the police.

Yes, so the main entrance-the road is public, so I meet a lot of people who come to walk their dogs, ride their horses, different animals and what not. It really is a nice place.

Do you ever have classes in the open?

No, the tutor’s time is very important for us.

But I do take my book and read somewhere in the forest. I have many spots in the forest.

Do you have parties?

We have barbecues, they are good.

Is there anything you miss here?

Not really, but something that we do miss are the lectures that happen in London.

We need to request them if we want to see them. Collaboration is lacking but give it ten years, this place will boom. But that will have its own effects- bigger the group more the exploration in wood techniques, but the more commercial it becomes, the more commercial the education will be.

Right now, We are like a family here.

Really, we have fights, arguments, we like some people more than others. We still have to share and stay together. The drama, the fun, the quarrels are nothing short of a typical family.

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Nasia Pantelidou

M.Arch Design + Make 2019-2020 Shreya interviewed some students in order to gain more information on the everyday routine of the Design + Make students in Hooke Park. The format for the interview was informal and they were asked to select a place where they were comfortable to talk or liked spending time. Here Nasia and Shengning were in the Big Shed workshop working on their current projects.

images: Diploma 18, Hooke Park, 2019

Shengning Zhang,

M.Arch Design + Make 2019-2020

“Our interaction with the forest is transactional. We use it to get wood for our projects. As we have to do work, we don’t get too much time to interact with the forest.”

NP

Why did you decide to go for this course?

Well for me, this provided a more hands on approach. Doing construction, working on site and living in woodlands.

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SZ

Yeah, the idea of actually building it, that is why I selected this course.

SZ

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What do you think about the life here?

Well, one of the reasons to come here was to live in the woods. We have barbecues, do little hikes here and there. But at the same time, I know we are missing a lot of opportunities that are available at the AA in London, you now to go to lectures and visit exhibitions.

SZ

Well, yes, we get to do all of those and miss the others. But this is what I always say, ‘It feels like we are in Big Brother’ We have 10 students for a year and 5-6 staff. We work and live at the same place so there is less communication outside of this. We are forced to come to the workshop because we share two cars.

NP

Literally, in the morning it is announced that this car is leaving. Hop in if you don’t wish to miss it.

D18

And do you get some time to take a walk?

Have a relationship with the forest? Tutorials in the forest?

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SZ

So, the forest is not a part of your daily ritual or routine? What governs your routine here?

The cars, lunch break at 1 pm yes.

Is there anything you feel you miss as a student in a school here?

Well, ok as part of the “AA” we expect certain design rigour. Last time nobody came to our final jury. This time we have asked them to call people who understand what we are doing, give us critical feedback and just help us better.

What about interaction with others? Like outside your course, with people that visit Hooke Park?

If the interaction is through a project, some share of knowledge and skills yes it would make sense. You mentioned your unit is about reuse and salvage. I think you should collaborate with some of the new students of Design + Make. That would be interesting.

Well again, walks yes sometimes but our interaction with the forest is transactional. We use it to get wood for our projects. We have work, we don’t get too much time to interact with the forest. For our project- 80% of it is made of wood and yes, the wood comes from Hooke Park.

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DIPLOMA 18 AND DESIGN+MAKE STUDENTS IN THE WORKSHOP WITH CHARLIE CORRYWRIGHT image: Aude-Line Dulière, Hooke Park, March 2020

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Table Saw

CNC

Welding Station

Copy Lathe Metal Lathe 4-side Planer

Spindle Moulder

Chop Saw (Metal) Chop Saw (Portable)

Bench Grinder

Band Saw

Metal Router

Table Saw

Belt and Disc Sander Mortiser

Planer (1 or 2-side)

Horizontal boring press Pillar Drill

Standing Lathe

Hand Tools

Plunge Router

HOOKE PARK WORKSHOP Nicole Ng Hooke Park is shared by Design + Make MSc and MArch students, visiting AA units, AA summer schools, and at times local craftspeople.

There are two buildings dedicated to design and production. The fabrication workshop is the original furniture school. It houses machines for wood and metalwork. The assembly workshop, also known as the Big Shed houses the robotic arm and is used to large construction and assembly project.

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Charlie and Edward are the two main workshop supervisors that provide advice and inductions for using any of the machines in the Fabrication workshop.

WOOD WORKSHOP

Handle Handle Adjustment

Adjustment Clamp

Handle

Emergency Stop Emergency Stop

Foot Switch Angle Adjustment

Spindle Power Feed Blade Unit

Adjustment Emergency Stop

Emergency Stop

Extractor

Foot Brake

Adjustment

DIGITAL FABRICATION

CATALOGUE OF HOOKE PARK’S WORKSHOP MACHINES prepared by Nicole Ng, Ele Mun and Sorana-Stefana Mazuli, 2019 source: some images from hookepark.aaschool.ac.uk

Emergency Stop

METAL WORKSHOP

Emergency St

Handle & Switch

Emergency Stop

Clamps

Adjustment

Emergency Stop

Emergency Stop (Behind)

Material insert Adjustment

Foot Brake

Material Insert

Emergency Stop

top

Adjustment

Emergency Stop

Adjustment

Emergency Stop

Emergency Stop

Switch

Handles

Speed Adjustment

Live centre (Spindle)

Dead centre

Angle adjustment

To know more about the specific function of every machine, access the workshop manual here https://issuu.com/opalisuk2019/docs/191106_hooke_park_workshop

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THE WORKSHOP AT SUNSET

image: Ele Mun, Hooke Park, March 2020

“We never really interact with students who come here.

We sit at different tables in the canteen during lunch.

You guys are amongst the first we have talked to�

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Carolina Menezes, MSc Design + Make 2019-2020

previous image:

WOOD CARVING TOOLS LEFT DURING A TOILET BREAK Aude-Line Dulière, October 2019

PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT This chapter explores the different possibilities of creating structures as permitted developments without the need of acquiring planning permission under different circumstances.

This study is realised because Hooke Park’s planning context is unique, being situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

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DIAGRAM OF POTENTIAL PERMITTED TEMPORARY STRUCTURE Ke Yang, 2019

The use of any land for any purpose for not more than 28 days in total in any calendar year, of which not more than 14 days in total may be for the purposes of: • the holding of a market; • motor car and motorcycle racing including trials of speed, and practising for these activities,

TEMPORARY STRUCTURE AS PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT General Permitted Development Order, 2015

source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/596/schedule/2/part/4/crossheading/class-b-temporary-use-of-land/made

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and the provision on the land of any moveable structure for the purposes of the permitted use.

DIAGRAM OF POTENTIAL PERMITTED EXTENSION Ke Yang, 2019

An single-storey extension or addition to your house is considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission, provided certain limits and conditions are met.

• On designated land* - no cladding of the exterior.

• On designated land* - no side extensions.

Rear extension - No permitted development for rear extensions of more than one storey.

The regime for larger single-storey rear extensions (see point 9) does NOT apply to houses on designated land.

• No more than half the area of land around the “original house”* would be covered by additions or other buildings.

Sheds and other outbuildings must be included when calculating the 50 percent limit.

• No extension forward of the principal elevation or side elevation fronting a highway.

• Materials to be similar in appearance to the existing house.

• Side extensions to be single storey. Width of side extension must not have a width greater than half the width of the original house.

• Side extensions to have a maximum height of four metres and width no more than half that of the original house.

• If the extension is within 2m of a boundary, maximum eaves height should be no higher than 3m to be permitted development.

• Single-storey rear extensions must not extend beyond the rear wall of the original house* by more than 4m if a detached house; or more than 3m for any other house. Where not on designated land (Article 2(3)) or a Site of Special Scientific Interest, this limit is increased to 8m if a detached house; or 6m for any other house.

• Maximum height of a single-storey rear extension of 4m.

• Maximum eaves and ridge height of extension no higher than existing house.

ADD A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION AS PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT Planning Portal, 2019, Illustrated by Ke Yang

source: https://interactive.planningportal.co.uk/mini-guide/extensions-single-storey/0

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* The term ‘original house’ means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date).

Although you may not have built an extension to the house, a previous owner may have done so. * ‘Designated land’(Article 2(3)) includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.

DIAGRAM OF POTENTIAL PERMITTED EXTENSION Ke Yang, 2019

An two-storey extension or addition to your house is considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission, provided certain limits and conditions are met.

• On designated land extensions of more than one storey are not permitted development.

• Extensions (including previous extensions) and other buildings must not exceed 50% of the total area of land around the original house. * Sheds and other outbuildings must be included when calculating the above 50% limit.

• Maximum eaves and ridge height of extension no higher than existing house. If extension is within two metres of a boundary maximum eaves height should be no higher than three metres to be permitted development.

• Extensions of more than one storey must not extend beyond the rear wall of original house by more than three metres or be within seven metres of any boundary opposite the rear wall of the house.

• Roof pitch of extensions higher than one storey to match that of the existing house, as far as is practicable.

• Materials used in exterior work to be similar in appearance to those of the exterior of the existing house.

• Any upper-floor window in a wall or roof slope in a side elevation must be obscure-glazed and non-opening unless the parts which can be opened are more than 1.7 metres above the floor of the room in which it is installed.

• No balconies or verandas are permitted development.

ADD A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION AS PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT Planning Portal, 2019, Illustrated by Ke Yang

source: https://interactive.planningportal.co.uk/mini-guide/extensions-two-storey/0

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* The term ‘original house’ means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date).

Although you may not have built an extension to the house, a previous owner may have done so. * ‘Designated land’(Article 2(3)) includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.

DIAGRAM OF POTENTIAL PERMITTED CONSERVATORY Ke Yang, 2019

Adding a conservatory to a house is considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission, provided these limits and conditions are met:

* The term ‘original house’ means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date).

Although you may not have built an extension to the house, a previous owner may have done so. * ‘Designated land’(Article 2(3)) includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites. * Sheds and other outbuildings must be included when calculating the above 50% limit.

ADD A CONSERVATORY AS PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT Planning Portal, 2019, Illustrated by Ke Yang

source: https://interactive.planningportal.co.uk/mini-guide/conservatory/11

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• On designated land* cladding of any part of the exterior of a dwelling (and extensions/conservatories) with stone, artificial stone, pebble dash, render, timber, plastic or tiles is not permitted development.

• On designated land conservatories extending beyond any side wall of the original house are NOT permitted development.

• Conservatories (including previous extensions) and other buildings must not exceed 50% of the total area of land around the original house.

• Conservatories forward of the principal elevation or side elevation of the original house and fronting a highway are NOT permitted development. Side conservatory must not have a width greater than half the width of the original house. Side conservatories to be single storey with a maximum height of four metres.

• If conservatory (at side or rear) is within two metres of a boundary maximum eaves height should be no higher than three metres to be permitted development.

• Single-storey rear extensions must not extend beyond the rear wall of the original house* by more than four metres if a detached house; or more than three metres for any other house.

• Where not in designated land (Article 2(3))* or a Site of Special Scientific Interest, this limit is increased to eight metres if a detached house; or six metres for any other house.

• Single-storey rear conservatory must not exceed a height of four metres.

• Maximum eaves height should be no higher than the eaves of the existing house. The highest part of the conservatory should be no higher than the roof ridge line of the existing house.

DIAGRAM OF POTENTIAL PERMITTED ROOF EXTENSION Ke Yang, 2019

Loft conversion or roof extension on a house is considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission, provided these limits and conditions are met:

* ‘Designated land’(Article 2(3)) includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.

ROOF EXTENSION AS PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT Planning Portal, 2019, Illustrated by Ke Yang

source: https://interactive.planningportal.co.uk/mini-guide/loft-conversion/10

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• Loft conversions are NOT permitted development for houses on designated land.

• To be permitted development any additional roof space created must not exceed these volume allowances: 40 cubic metres for terraced houses.

50 cubic metres for detached and semidetached houses.

• Bear in mind that any previous roof space additions must be included within this volume allowance. Although you may not have created additional space a previous owner may have done so.

• An extension beyond the plane of the existing roof slope of the principal elevation that fronts a highway is NOT permitted development.

• Materials to be similar in appearance to the existing house.

• No part of the extension to be higher than the highest part of the existing roof.

• Verandas, balconies or raised platforms are NOT permitted development.

• Any side-facing windows must be obscure glazed and nonopening unless the parts which can be opened are more than 1.7 metres above the floor of the room in which it is installed.

• Roof extensions, apart from hip to gable ones, to be set back, as far as is practicable, at least 20cm from the original eaves.

The 20cm distance is measured along the roof plane.

• The roof enlargement cannot overhang the outer face of the wall of the original house.

• Work on a loft or a roof may affect bats. You need to consider protected species when planning work of this type. A survey may be needed, and if bats are using the building, a licence may be required.

DIAGRAM OF POTENTIAL PERMITTED OUTBUILDING Ke Yang, 2019

Outbuildings are considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission, provided all the conditions are met.

• On designated land* outbuildings to the side of the house are not permitted development.

• Outbuildings are not permitted development within the grounds of a listed building.

• In national parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the total area to be covered by any outbuildings more then 20 metres from ANY WALL of the house must not exceed 10 square metres to be permitted development.

• Outbuildings are not permitted development forward of the principal elevation of the original house*.

• Outbuildings and other additions must not exceed 50% of the total area of land around the original house*. Sheds and all other outbuildings and extensions to the original house must be included when calculating this 50% limit.

• To be permitted development, any new building must not itself be separate, self-contained, living accommodation and must not have a microwave antenna.

• Outbuildings must be single storey with a maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of 4 metres with a dual pitched roof, or 3 metres in any other case.

• If the outbuildings is within 2 metres of the property boundary the whole building should not exceed 2.5 metres in height.

• Balconies and verandas are not permitted development.

Raised platforms such as decking are permitted development provided they are no higher than 300mm.

• Containers, such as those used for domestic heating purposes, must not exceed 3,500 litres capacity to be permitted development. The other permitted development conditions which apply to outbuildings listed above also apply to containers.

OUTBUILDINGS AS PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT Planning Portal, 2019, Illustrated by Ke Yang

source: https://interactive.planningportal.co.uk/mini-guide/loft-conversion/10

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* ‘Designated land’(Article 2(3)) includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.

DIAGRAM OF POTENTIAL PERMITTED FORESTRY BUILDING Ke Yang, 2019

The carrying out on land used for the purposes of forestry, including afforestation, of development reasonably necessary for those purposes consisting of:

FORESTRY BUILDINGS AS PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT General Permitted Development Order, 1995, Illustrated by Ke Yang

source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/418/schedule/2/part/7/made

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• Works for the erection, extension or alteration of a building; • The formation, alteration or maintenance of private ways; • Operations on that land, or on land held or occupied with that land, to obtain the materials required for the formation, alteration or maintenance of such ways; • Other operations (not including engineering or mining operations).

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MAP OF STRUCTURES Ke Yang, 2019

source: Hooke Park

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PLANNING PERMISSION

The buildings in AA’s Hooke Park campus can be categorised into two types: buildings that required planning permission, and buildings that did not require planning permission.

Buildings in grey have planning permits to build such as the Big Shed which submitted its planning application in 2011 and completed in 2012.

Buildings in pink did not require planning permission as they are used for the purposes of forestry, for example the Woodchip Barn and the Sawmill Shelter.

Prototype House Workshop Westminster Lodge Big Shed Caretaker’s House North Lodge Timber Seasoning Shelter South Student Lodge Biomass Boiler House Sawmill Shelter Woodchip Barn Wakeford Hall Library The Foundry Outdoor Cooking Space The Darkroom

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BOOK CLUB AROUND A CAMPFIRE WITH DESIGN + MAKE AND DIPLOMA 18 taken in Hooke Park in October 2019

THE HERD OF DIPLOMA 18 ARRIVING AT THE TEMPORARY CAMPSITE image: Diploma 18, October 2019

LIVING IN THE FOREST The scope of this experiment was to investigate the possibility of using overnight shelters to house students for a 1 day trip to Hooke Park.

As a space to sleep, the students need to think about access, aperture and enclosure.

As a temporary structure, students need to consider the construction method and respect the existing landscape, fauna and flora.

Once dismantled, the shelters should leave no trace or damage.

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Sorana-Stefana Mazilu

* Distance was measured by triangulating the distance between trees from the edge of the campus to the settlement.

SETTLEMENT PLAN - DISTANCE FROM HOOKE PARK CAMPUS 145M drawn by Diploma 18, October 2019

SETTLEMENT PLAN IN HOOKE PARK FOREST 4 OCTOBER 2019

For each group, students could bring three additional components from the outside to compose their shelter. Reclaimed or reused materials were recommended, which could be sourced locally or online from eBay and Gumtree for example. A budget of 70 pounds was allocated for each shelter, however, the cost could be reimbursed by selling or reusing the components in future tasks.

The Diploma 18 groups were as follows: •

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Group 1: Alice Nobel, Andrew Robertson, Connie Lynn Tang and Shreya Kochatta; Group 2: Clara Schwarz, Joyce Ng and Ke Yang; Group 3: Ele Mun, Nicole Ng and Sorana-Stefana Mazilu; Group 4: Lydia Liu and Shidi Fu. F 2 1 T 4 3 P

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Main fireplace Tutors Camp Group 1 shelter Group 2 shelter Group 3 shelter Group 4 shelter Path to Hooke Park campus

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SETTLEMENT PLAN LEGEND

BUBBLE WRAP SHELTER AT NIGHT image: Diploma 18, October 2019

SETTLEMENT GROUP 1 ALICE, ANDREW, CONNIE AND SHREYA For the design of the shelter, we agreed on a minimalist approach with attention given to weather proofing the structure.

For the primary structure, we decided to use one of the tree trunks on the site as the central column to support all the other structural elements.

The flexibility of thin branches was used to create an igloo like shelter with double skin made out of bubble wrap.

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This allowed for maximum insulation and waterproofing. To avoid dampness from the forest floor the design included a platform created out of remaining bubble wrap with dry leaves infill.

INSIDE BUBBLE WRAP SHELTER image: Alice Nobel, 2019

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CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE

VIEW OF SHELTER AT NIGHT image: Diploma 18, October 2019

SETTLEMENT GROUP 2 CLARA, JOYCE AND KE We developed two iterations of our shelter’s basic structure before departure: a free standing tripod structure and a tarp structure using two existing tree as main vertical supports.

Once the primary structure was built, the secondary structure would be constructed out of thinner branches. Estimated length of each member was calculated in our vectorised structural model to provide us information for the actual construction.

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For insulation, we also had two options of material, reclaimed yoga mattresses or winter fleece cover, and both of them were to be woven onto the secondary structure to create a layer for insulation. In addition to this, a 3.2 by 3.2 meter extra heavy duty dust sheet was to be placed on top for waterproofing.

VIEW INSIDE SHELTER

image: Diploma 18, October 2019

CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE

DECONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE

STEP 0

On site we found 2 parallel trees, not too far from each other, along them, we attached one main branch to hold our structure.

STEP 1

One main branch was tied up between the 2 trees.

STEP 2

Along the main branch, we attached not heavy and thin branches to create the secondary of our shelter.

Our main concern was the isolation, so we first enrolled the structure with polysheets to keep us warm.

STEP 4

On top of the polysheets, we added a big dust sheet to protect us from the water.

STEP 5

On the floor, we used the trampoline material and dust sheet to avoid humidity inside.

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STEP 3

A PLACE FOR GATHERING AROUND THE FIRE SITTING ADJACENT TO A TEMPORARY SHELTER CONSTRUCTED BY KE YANG, JOYCE NG AND CLARA SCHWARTZ image: Diploma 18, 2019

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Because of the proximity to the camp fire, the aperture on the left side of the shelter, which is covered by fleece, can help bring warmth inside.

JOYCE FOR SCALE - VIEW INSIDE SHELTER image: Diploma 18, October 2019

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DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE MATERIALS NEEDED AND BASIC DIMENSIONS OF THE SHELTER

SUSPENDED TRAMPOLINE SHELTER image: Diploma 18, October 2019

SETTLEMENT GROUP 3 ELE, NICOLE AND SORANA We liked the idea of using industrial ratchet straps to create a tensile structure that would elevate us in the forest. We saw the trees as a massive structural potential, something we should take advantage of.

Perhaps we were envisioning an experience of waking up amongst the canopy of trees.

A UFO? A 1970s housing machine prototype?

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The composition of colours: holographic glitter, neon orange lines, and tan artificial blue, made for a structure that felt out of the world. But most importantly, it kept us warm and‌ asleep. Not because of the insulating bubble we created, but because the three of us sank to the middle of the trampoline and slept close to one another.

CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE

The components that are used: 1 x trampoline, 1 x tarpaulin, 5 x emergency blankets, 14 x ratchet Straps, some canvas and some rope. The straps in tension must be able to take on a load of three adult persons - the trampoline, when pulled too taut, could become damaged. The right tautness had to be found through trial and error.

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STEP 0 Find available trampoline on free cycle, dismantle pack and bring on site.

STEP 1 Find cluster of trees close together. Attach ratchet straps tied to trampoline in spider like formation between trees (protect tree trunk with canvas).

STEP 2 Attach roof tarpaulin and net ring taken from trampoline approximately 70 cm above trampoline base (use ratchet straps in a similar manner).

STEP 3 Connect roof and base with emergency blankets.

BOOK CLUB AROUND THE FIREPLACE. BOOK FOR TONIGHT: TOOLS FOR CONVIVIALITY BY IVAN ILLICH image: Diploma 18, October 2019

“It would not serve my purpose to describe in detail any fictional community of the future. I want to provide guidelines for action, not for fantasy. A modern society, bounded for convivial living, could generate a new flowering of surprises far beyond anyone’s imagination and hope...

I am not proposing a Utopia, but a procedure that provides each community with the choice of its unique social arrangements.”

The fireplace is the gathering space of the camp. Once the shelters are built and the night sets in the book club starts. Tonight’s reading is “Tools for Conviviality” by Ivan Illich. The settlement is not only testing the possibility of inhabiting Hooke Park overnight but also how the community would link to the Hooke Park campus.

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- Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality

CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE

The primary support for the shelter are the triangular ratchet straps holding the structure. Then we weaved a net structure with three ropes from each edge, tightening the net as we went along. Then several thick branches are laid and weaved into the net to strengthen the structure.

For the insulation, a layer of fibre-glass wool is placed on top it to protect from the wind and wetness from the ground. Finally the layer of Tarpaulin is placed to separate the sleeping bags and floor build-up.

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SETTLEMENT GROUP 4 LYDIA AND SHIDI

SUSPENDED PYRAMID SHELTER image: Shidi Fu, 2019

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A 3M long branch is found and used as central column to support another tarpaulin to form a pyramid shape celling, while the top tarpaulin is also tied and hooked by the rope above and at three corners of the shelter.

All the joints are tied with rope with flexible knots, which can be easily fixed with a branch.

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VIEW OF A RECENTLY PLANTED NORWAY SPRUCE COMPARTMENT TAKEN FROM THE DEER HIDE LOOKOUT Diploma 18, Hooke Park, October 2019

RUINS IN PROGRESS Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang

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Hooke Park’s woodland accommodates a number of built projects, produced by the Design + Make programme, visiting schools, summer workshops, and AA students.

These temporary structures are either taken down or left to decompose over time.

A hand-drawn exploratory map, provided by Zachary Mollica, shows the secondary structures that still exist in the woodlands.

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MAP OF STRUCTURES

drawn by Ke Yang and Joyce Ng, 2019 source: Hooke Park, Zachary Mollica

Main Gate Entrance Platform Hooke Court Play Cairn From Tate Pole Barn Sawmill Shelter Woodchip Barn Watch Tower I Warden Hill Trail MakeLab Tower Ravine Bridge Centre Point Fountains Stairway to Nowhere : Arup Tower Deer Hide Concrete Stepped Sluice Watch Tower II Tri-Platform Tetrahedron Laura's Gate

AA Visiting School Participation Design + Make Students AA Student Work

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1 1 2 2 1 3 1 3 2 4 1 2 4 3 5 1 2 3 5 4 6 2 1 3 4 6 5 7 1 3 2 4 5 7 6 8 1 2 4 3 5 6 8 7 9 2 1 3 5 4 6 7 9 8 10 1 3 2 4 6 5 7 8 10 9 11 1 2 4 3 5 7 6 8 9 11 10 12 1 2 3 5 4 6 8 7 9 10 12 11 13 1 2 3 4 6 5 7 9 8 10 11 13 12 14 1 2 3 4 5 7 6 8 10 9 11 12 14 13 1 15 2 3 4 5 6 8 7 9 11 10 12 13 15 14 1 2 16 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 15 1 2 3 17 4 5 6 7 8 10 9 11 13 12 14 15 17 16 1 2 3 4 18 5 6 7 8 9 11 10 12 14 13 15 16 18 17 2 3 4 5 19 6 7 8 9 10 12 11 13 15 14 16 17 19 18 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 12 14 16 15 17 18 19 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 13 15 17 16 18 19 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 14 16 18 17 19 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 15 17 19 18 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 16 18 19 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 17 19 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 14 15 16 17 18 19 15 16 17 18 19 16 17 18 19 17 18 19 18 19 19

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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MAIN GATE

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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ENTRANCE PLATFORM

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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HOOKE COURT PLAY

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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CAIRN FROM TATE

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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POLE BARN

POLE BARN PLAN

drawn by Lydia Liu, 2019

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images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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RUIN 1

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

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RUIN 2

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

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RUIN 3

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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BRIDGE 1

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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MAKELAB TOWER

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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CENTREPOINT FOUNTAINS

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

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STAIRWAY TO NOWHERE ARUP TOWER

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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DEER HIDE

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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CONCRETE STEPS

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

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RUIN BRIDGE

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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BIRD TOWER 2

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

survey sketches drawn by Joyce Ng

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TRI PLATFORM

images: Shidi Fu, Joyce Ng, Ke Yang, October 2019

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LEFT FOUNDATION FROM FIRST EXP 2 PAVILION INSTALLED IN HOOKE PARK

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ELE AND LYDIA DISCOVER THEY WERE STANDING ON THE STUMP OF AN OVERTURNED TREE Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, October 2019

FAMILY TREE

Shreya Kochatta, Connie Lynn Tang

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The Hooke Park community started with Christopher Sadd, the head forester, who first visited Hooke Park as a student during the Parnham Era and began working on site ever since the 1980s until today.

OTHER HOOKE PARK STAKEHOLDERS

CONSULTANTS

NEIGHBOURS

Forestry Planning Advisors Engineers Hooke Parish Council Cost Consultants Environment Energy Systems West Dorset District Council Donors

Dorset Inhabitants: Trail through the forest Children for school activities

VISITING UNITS

DESIGN + MAKE

AA Diploma Units eg: Dip 11, Dip 18

16-month MArch 12-month MSc

AA Maeda

Programme by Shin Egashira

Design+Make

Hooke Park Build AA Members Visit

FAMILY TREE

Connie Lynn Tang, 2019 source: Hooke Park

CHRIS

CHARLIE

GEORGIE

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MARTIN

Christopher Sadd

Charlie Corry Wright

Georgie Corry Wright

Zachary Mollica

Martin Self

Forester

Workshop Manager and Caretaker

Catering Manager and Herbalist

Warden of Hooke Park, Studio Tutor

Design+Make Programme director

1980s Witnessed the building of the very first structure to the most recent one

1990 Course in Forest Manufacturing (by Parnham Trust)

1994 Been living on site since then

2014

Founding Director of Design+Make programme and former director of Hooke Park.

Been living on site since 1994

SIMON LAURA WILL

THOMAS

Edward Coe

Jack Draper

Simon Withers

Laura Kaddey

Will Gowland

Thomas Parker

Technical Coordinator

Make Tutor

Thesis Tutor

Administrator

Technical Consultant

Technical Consultant

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EDWARD JACK

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1. NORTH LODGE: Zachary Mollica, the Warden 2. SOUTH LODGE: Design + Make students 3. CARETAKER’S HOUSE: Charlie & Georgie Corrywright and family

RESIDENTS OF HOOKE PARK MAP Connie Lynn Tang, 2019 source: Hooke Park

PERMANENT RESIDENTS

The community has been growing with the creation of the Design + Make programme and the visiting students from Bedford Square campus (such as the visiting units and summer courses) who live temporarily in Westminster Lodge.

Charlie & Georgie have been living on site since 1994 with their family, and now live in the Caretaker’s house, built in 2012.

Zachary Mollica, the campus warden, and course tutor lives in the North Student Lodge constructed in 2013.

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Students from the Design + Make programme live in the South Lodge built in 2014. They alternate on a shift basis, with each group of students staying there for a few months.

TIA AND SEAN CORRYWRIGHT IN BLUEBELLS WITH SYLVESTER THE CAT Summer 1995

image: Charlie Corrywright,1995

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D18

Your relationship with Hooke Park has been a long one. You started here as a student and to this day. Can you expand on that a little bit?

CCW

I moved to the area in 1992 for the one year program by The Parnham Trust called Diploma in Forest Manufacturing, and then stayed in the area doing other work. And then in 1994 I heard they were talking about building Westminster Lodge, so came up back up to Hooke Park to see if I could get a job on the construction. At that time, they weren’t quite ready to start, but they did want someone living on site for security and care-taking. They offered us that position initially, so we bought an old mobile home and put it in the Woods where the Woodchip Barn now is and moved in.

And then about six months after that, the construction of Westminster Lodge began and I got involved. Westminster Lodge was completed in ‘96, went dormant for maybe three or four years.

And I was working elsewhere off site and care-taking the site at the same time.

And then, Parnham Trust was planning to move their cabinet making operation up to Hooke Park, hence the Park House foundations. That ground to a halt in about 2002, and that’s when the AA took Hooke Park over.

D18

So having experienced both Hooke Park during Parnham era and during AA era.

What changes have you experienced?

Charlie Corrywright is the Workshop Manager of AA School’s Hooke Park campus and long-term resident.

Charlie talks to Shreya about his relationship with the place for 28 years.

We wanted to know more about life in Hooke Park from Charlie.

The text is transcribed from an interview with Charlie, conducted over video call.

image: Design + Make website

CCW

It has been a very gradual process.

How the AA uses Hooke, and how we operate, has evolved over time. When AA took ownership of Hooke Park, myself and family were living on site. I had experience of workshop and its forestry, I understood the site and the buildings.

And Georgie could cook, so we were invited by the AA to take on those roles, which we gladly did.

D18

How do you see the relationship between Hooke Park and the Hooke village?

CCW

I think on the whole, the village is supportive of what happens here, and are very happy to see stuff going on. Always very interested in the buildings and in the activities.

“ As someone who likes to make stuff and help other people make stuff, its kind of a dream job really.”

D18

Continuing on that, is Hooke Park the main sort of leisure place in the area. For example, if you have to go out, do you ever go to the village to do something?

CCW

There is a sort of parish council and there are some small social events occasionally through the year. We personally don’t really participate, and most of them are slightly church connected, and we’re not religious, particularly. So yeah, we haven’t really engaged in that way too much. Right now we’re on friendly terms with most of those people, but, only in a passing way. There is not really a pub or club so there are not really nights out.

D18

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CCW

Your grand-daughter, does she go to Wren’s nursery in Hooke?

No, she’s not old enough yet, she’s not quite three. We have talked about it, so possibly next year as long as we are all allowed out. Yeah, I think it would be good for her to have small children around. I think she is suffering from only having adult company at the moment.

How would you describe your time in Hooke Park all these years?

I count myself as very fortunate. As someone who likes to make stuff and help other people make stuff, it’s kind of a

dream job really. So I’ve been very lucky just to be able to be in this space, and sharing with people, so there’s very little change actually.

D18

Even like setting wise, would you want to add something more to it, some recreational space or any kind of space or activity? Or you know, routine of some sort?

CCW

I’m not saying a gym or sports space, but maybe some sort of indoor recreational space would benefit the site personally, and I think collectively, whether it’s table tennis or martial arts or basketball or anything, just an open indoor space for something like that would I think, bring a lot to the site.

D18

Apart from the routine defined by the canteen, the lunch time. Is there any other routine that was followed or is still followed?

CCW

Well, I guess there is one defined by me being here 9 to 5, so that’s when the machines are on. That’s when the facility is. Yeah, so there is a clear sort of routine or timetable defined by that.

D18

How do you see all these people who come to Hooke Park for a week? How do you see that interaction? Do you think it actually leaves a positive mark?

CCW

Oh definitely yes, there’s a risk of living in a bit of a bubble here. Even the Design + Make programme. I think there’s definitely layers of richness that visiting groups like yourselves bring in terms of energy and new perspectives and you know, it’s like when you have a visitor, you clean the house and you see your own home with new eyes. You see that even with design. So people who come in definitely bring that!

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I think they are very happy to have Hooke Park as a forest on their doorsteps for walking. There have been some tentative exchanges of energy, like we did some of the road signs for Hooke Village a couple of years ago as a sort of a gift. We CNC cut them and painted them in house and then they installed them in the village.

So, there’s been a few small exchanges of energy and activity which I think is fine.

Each party is open to the other, but we don’t connect that often.

D18

CCW

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CCW

What do you think about the expansion of Hooke Park?

Yeah, so mixed feelings really because I guess there’s a balance in there, not wanting to kill the goose that laid the Golden egg. The danger of expanding is that if it gets bigger, there’s a whole bunch of knock-ons for that like the danger of losing that intimacy. But also, there’s a promise of unknown possibilities, and I guess that’s the sort of balance when you’re talking about changes. Trying to maintain the good in a situation but bring something fresh.

I guess I’m not closed to change but would hope that people would be careful about proposing change and what those changes would be.

And, how would you describe that intimacy? Is it that everyone knows everyone or what exactly?

Then spiritually, or psychologically, to be able to go for a walk and hear the birds .

I’m sure that’s massively enriching to life generally, but in an educational context, I think the ability to step outside the studio straight into the landscape, it’s very beneficial. A chance to reflect, or clear the head.

D18

How is your weekend like? How do you spend your weekend?

CCW

So sometimes, when it’s busy in Termtime, I’m quite often working over a weekend. If not, it depends on the weather and family life, but usually we go out on a Saturday with Georgie, into town, have a coffee, watch the world go by. Just get a different perspective on people and place. If the weather is nice, we go out on the motor bike for a ride.

D18

It is a unique situation actually because it is so intimate. We do share space daily, hence the sharing meals, sharing formal professional time. The casual interactions, CCW just passing in the yard. All those things are quite rich actually. And then when you share a sort of dynamic creative space, throwing ideas backwards and forwards, there’s a real richness to that from an educational point of view, that daily interaction. It is quite weird because one gets these rich relationships forming over a year or 18 months, but then we have to wave goodbye. See the cycle start again.

And how would you describe the forest as a space for learning, because it is unique in itself to have a pedagogical program in the forest?

From a practical point of view, learning about design and construction, being surrounded by your raw materials gives the chance of developing a real, innate, almost bodily understanding of the material you’re designing and working with. It’s very hard to quantify, but I think that’s really rich.

Apart from the buildings, are there any other natural spaces which have stood out in Hooke Park for you. Some landscape or some patch of land that has been memorable?

Personally, I guess the bit of forest above the Timber Seasoning Shelter which we’ve always referred to as Shady Lady Glade.

I don’t know why. It’s a lovely spot. It looks across the site and then further out down to Bridport and the sea so it has a nice big open view. It always feels quite nice up there. Also, I do quite like it down towards Cedar Lodge. Its all large Douglas Fir and Spruce, its quite a magical space.

There was one year when there was quite a carpet of fly agaric, the red and white spotted mushrooms all over forest floor , but they never came back. The following year there were a few, but none since then.

D18

Thank you very much for this Charlie!

Hopefully we’ll see each other, I don’t think so soon, but yes. Have you found any COVID-19 cases in the area? Like in my area itself there are 1500 detected cases.

CCW

I think there are 290 in west country in total. None in Hooke yet. We are quite isolated here so incredibly lucky during this pandemic, especially now.

SEAN CORRYWRIGHT CHOPPING WOOD Winter 1998

image: Charlie Corrywright, 1998

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forest as a space for learning, like, uh, because like it is unique in itself to have a pedagogical program in in the forest to think that it it?

CW - It makes a lot of effect apart from

TIA, SEAN KALI, CHARLIE WITH STUDENTS AND TUTORS, OUTSIDE JURY – 2002 image: Charlie Corrywright, 2002

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CROSS SECTION DRAWING OF THE ECOSYSTEM OF HOOKE PARK Diploma 18, 2019

drawn by: Alice Nobel, Andrew Robertson, Joyce Ng, Lydia Liu, Nicole Ng

THE ECOSYSTEM OF HOOKE PARK

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The section drawing depicts the various systems of interdependencies that human and non-human residents in Hooke Park share. The campus is part of a woodland landscape which is an ecology that encapsulates human processes like timber production and energy generation together with natural processes such as the soil nutrient, water cycles and wildlife ecosystems.

images: Lydia Liu, Hooke Park, December 2019

BENEATH THE GROUND Lydia Liu

Hooke Park sits on bedrock from the Upper Greensand Formation and the Jurassic Period; hence the diversity of the geology on site. We can find an abundance of flint, mudstone, gault clay throughout the site, on the banks of streams, around the campus and deep in the forest. This chapter includes information from the British Geological Society as well as our site findings of various types of soil, clay and stone, and the resulting landscape characteristics.

source: British Geological Survey

BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF HOOKE PARK Chalk, Zig Zag Chalk Formation Upper Cretaceous Period 10m thick Sandstone, Upper Greensand Formation Upper Cretaceous Period 0-70m thick Mudstone, Gault Formation Jurassic Period 0-75m thick Mudstone, Frome Clay Formation Jurassic Period 45-70m thick Calcareous Mudstone, Fuller's Earth Formation Jurassic Period 2-260m thick Ooidal Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group Jurassic Period 0-106m thick Sandstone, Bridport Sand Formation Jurassic Period 0-1.2m thick

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SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS Clay-with-flints formation

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1 Sedimentary rock with quartz and silica

2 Sedimentary rock with quartz and silica

3 Sedimentary rock with high iron content as shown by red traces

4 Sandstone

5 Mudstone

6 Calcareous mudstone with traces of iron

Sandstone

Mudstone Calcareous Mudstone Ooidal Limestone Sandstone Clay-with-flints

STONE SAMPLES TAKEN FROM HOOKE PARK

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Mudstone

source: UK Soil Observatory

clay

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SUBSOIL CHARACTERISTICS OF HOOKE PARK Rudaceous A sandy or gravel-rich subsoil. Freely draining acid loamy soils over rock.

Soil parent material: Colluvium Soil texture: clayey loam pH: acidic Soil depth: >1m deep Argillic-Arenaceous A layered subsoil of clay, silt and sand, slowly permeable and seasonally wet Soil parent material: Sandstone Soil texture: sand to sandy loam pH: neutral Soil depth: Around 1m deep Argillaceous A clay and silt-rich subsoil.

Soil parent material: Claystone/mudstone Soil texture: clayey loam pH: alkaline Soil depth: 0.5m deep

Soil parent material: Limestone Soil texture: sand to sandy loam pH: alkaline Soil depth: 0.5m deep

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Argillaceous A clay and silt-rich subsoil.

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source: UK Soil Observatory

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SOIL SAMPLE 1

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A small gully had been dug out for unknown purpose, by the concrete foundations of Park House. Soil with high moisture content, small aggregates and linear traces of black sediment.

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source: UK Soil Observatory

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SOIL SAMPLE 2

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A fallen tree leaves topsoil exposed. A compact hill of topsoil disintegrates by hand digging, into small sandy lumps with a slight green appearance.

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source: UK Soil Observatory

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SOIL SAMPLE 3

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At the same site, the fallen tree exposes the subsoil.

The sample is taken around -1.5m, and is more clay-like and high in moisture content.

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source: UK Soil Observatory

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SOIL SAMPLE 4,5

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Large and small lumps of gault clay can be found at the crest of the water stream. A powerful flow of water smoothens and solidifies the large lumps of clay.

SITE PLAN SURVEY AND PROPOSAL BY THE STREAM IN HOOKE PARK drawn by Joyce Ng, December 2019

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source: UK Soil Observatory

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SOIL SAMPLE 6

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At the western edge of Hooke Park the landscape is generally flat and one can find plentiful small pebbles and watery clay at the base of the still stream.

source: UK Soil Observatory

RISK OF WATER EROSION GEOLOGY OF HOOKE PARK Very high. Rills1 likely to form most seasons and gullies2 form in very wet periods.

High. Rills likely to form during wet periods.

Sediment seen in run-off.

A gully is a landform created by running water, eroding sharply into soil, typically on a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys but are metres to tens of metres in depth and width. When the gully formation is in process, the water flow rate can be substantial, causing a significant deep cutting action into the soil.

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A rill is a shallow channel (no more than a few tens of centimetres deep) cut into soil by the erosive action of flowing water. Wikipedia.

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source: UK Soil Observatory

SOIL RUNOFF GEOLOGY OF HOOKE PARK

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Soil run-off seen in most years during wet periods

source: UK Soil Observatory

RISK OF WIND EROSION GEOLOGY OF HOOKE PARK

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Soil is very prone to wind erosion

source: UK Soil Observatory

MASS MOVEMENT GEOLOGY OF HOOKE PARK

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Clay deposits from landslides

source: UK Soil Observatory

SOIL MOVEMENTS DUE TO WIND AND RAIN GEOLOGY OF HOOKE PARK

RISK OF WATER EROSION Very high. Rills likely to form most seasons and gullies form in very wet periods.

High. Rills likely to form during wet periods.

Sediment seen in run-off.

SOIL RUNOFF Soil run-off seen in most years during wet periods

RISK OF WIND EROSION Soil is very prone to wind erosion

MASS MOVEMENT

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Clay deposits from landslides

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RECENTLY DUG OUT CLAY FOUND NEAR THE WORKSHOP Lydia Liu, Hooke Park, 2019

HYDROLOGY The Woodland Trust guideline aligned with Hooke Park management plan, in the Significant Hazards and Threats section, it states that there are soil erosion occurred in many gullies, many streams, ditches and wet water-body need to be protected from accidental spills, blockage and damage for timber harvesting.

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Shidi Fu

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Schematic of water storages with respect to slope, forest and dwellings Shidi Fu, London, 2020

COLD NIGHT AIR

STORAGE BERMS AND TANK A HIGH DAM WARM NIGHT AIR RIDGE FORESTS FOR CONDENDATION AND SOIL STABILISING

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WATER CIRCLE IN THE WOODLAND

POINT OF INFLECTION KEY POINT

Schematic of water storages with respect to slope, forest and dwellings Shidi Fu, London, 2020

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source: Permaculture - A Designers’ Manual, Bill Mollison

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DIAGRAM OF HOW A TREE INTERACTS WITH RAIN

FLOW ACCUMULATION SIMULATION: MODERATE RAINFALL Flow Accumulation Simulation, 2020, Shidi Fu

source: DSM & DTM Extracted from Environment Agency

Flow Accumulation Simulation, 2020, Shidi Fu

source: DSM & DTM Extracted from Environment Agency

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FLOW ACCUMULATION SIMULATION: HEAVY RAINFALL

STREAM 1 DESCRIPTION: Flow Accumulation: Moderate Waterlogging: Accidentally Accessibility: Easily, mostly asphalt path Vegetation: Trees and low grass Pass Through: Compartment Soil erosion: Mild

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KE CHECKING OUT THE ELEVATED VIEW FROM A DEER HUNTING HIGH SEAT Ele Mun, Hooke Park, 2020

A FOX CAUGHT BY A MOTION ACTIVATED CAMERA TRAP SET UP BY JOYCE Joyce Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

TWO HUMANS, KE AND ELE, CAUGHT BY THE SAME MOTION ACTIVATED CAMERA TRAP Joyce Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

LOOK! A DEER CAPTURED TOO! Joyce Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

INITIAL CAMERA TRAP TEST Joyce Ng, 2019

FAUNA Joyce Ng, Ke Yang

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Hooke Park’s fauna play a significant role in the wellbeing of the woodlands. It hosts a range of large animals from deer, foxes, badgers, birds, bats, squirrels and mice. There are also moths, butterflies and other types of insect species that are native to Hooke Park. Hooke Park is known to have a variety of insect species, which feed the larger animals of Hooke Park, but they have yet to be fully studied.

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ANIMAL PATHS MAP

drawn by Connie Lynn Tang, Ke Yang, 2019

ANIMAL PATHS

Based on observation and information from the Hooke Park team, this speculative drawing is an attempt to map out the different animal territories.

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Spring

deer squirrels wild boar bats badger insects birds fox dog

“When I was here in 1999, they were all young trees. But now it’s getting better. With the tawny owls, we put boxes up like chimneys and the next week they were in them! That first year we brought in about thirty chicks.”

Stephen Hales, Wildlife Expert

“One of the Experimental Units were here recently and they found a bat in their room whilst staying at Westminster Lodge” Charlie Corrywright, Hooke Park’s Workshop Manager

“Wild boar was a big issue for farmers around that’s why we don’t see them anymore.”

Charlie Corrywright, Hooke Park’s Workshop Manager

“At one point, it was a royal deer park owned by the king. It moved to a succession of owners then the Forestry Commission took over for 25 years and replanted the whole woodland.”

Christopher Sadd, Hooke Park’s Forester

“I peeked out of the tent in the middle of the night and I noticed a glow on the ground. It must have been bioluminescent mushrooms!”

James Westcott, AA Tutor

“There was a lot more wildlife in Hooke Park 20 years ago: deer and wild boar would roam into the campus.”

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Miraj Ahmed, AA Tutor

LECTURE WITH STEPHEN HALES

Joyce Ng, photo taken during lecture in December 2019

image on screen: taken at the South West Coast Path, Nov 2019

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Stephen Hales, a wildlife expert, has been independently monitoring the moths of Hooke Park for the last 30 years. In his lecture, he described some of the rare species that exist in Hooke Park. He also mentioned a way to measure the biodiversity of a given area is the monitoring any of the three species: Insects, Bats and Birds.

THE WILDLIFE OF HOOKE PARK Joyce Ng, 2020

drawing based on interviews and testimonials

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The hidden side of Hooke Park is filled with wildlife from small organisms such as fungi and insects, birds and bats, to larger animals such as fox and deer. Since there has never been any formal study of Hooke Park’s wildlife, a collection of testimonies from Hooke Park staff, AA tutors and students were used to paint a more holistic picture of this hidden world.

SPECTROGRAM OF HOOKE PARK FOREST SOUNDSCAPE Ke Yang, 2019

Deer are known to overpopulate Hooke Park. The number of deer are managed to ensure and protect the trees in the woodland. They are occasionally spotted in the woodlands.

Foxes are commonly found in Hooke Park. They prey on many animals that inhabit the woodlands- birds, squirrels, and mice.

Badgers holes are commonly found in Hooke Park but the animal themselves are hardly seen wandering in the woodlands. Their main diet is insects.

Pheasants are often found in Hooke Park and can be seen and heard during the day. They are sometimes hunted.

Owls are not commonly found in Hooke Park due to the age of the trees which do not have holes for nesting.

However, they are important animals to regulate the wildlife of the woodlands.

Hooke Park houses a large population of squirrels.They are hunted to regulate the wildlife of the woodlands.

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Mice are commonly found in Hooke Park woodlands as well as campus. They could be better regulated with the presence of owls.

Nick Tomlinson is the Principal Ecologist at Nick Tomlinson Ecology.

He has worked in the environmental sector for more than 20 years, specialising in bats and carrying out bat surveys for planning applications.

Nick has previously worked with the Somerset Wildlife Trust, Dorset Wildlife Trust and the Bat Conservation Trust.

Nick talks to Joyce about bats in the UK, the present need to protect them as well as new policies regarding bats in buildings.

The text is transcribed from a tour around Hooke Park campus and woodland on the 4th of March 2020.

NT

If it’s been used and it’s a bat roost, then bat roosts are protected and you can’t just move them. But pragmatically, it would depend on the nature of that use. So if we have gone and checked it and we found one bat in there in one night, my personal view would be take more of a pragmatic view of it and say “Ok, its been used by a bat for one night, but actually putting it wherever somewhere else that might be would be better for bats overall” and therefore the fact that very technically speaking we are breaking the law, we would move it. On the other hand, if we found what would look like a maternity colony in there, then we wouldn’t move it because then that is the place that they want to breed. And sometimes boxes can be picked up quite quickly. The bats would know that it’s there, the challenge will be knowing whether it’s been used and how long you would want to leave past the day its in until you make that decision (to move it). Perhaps they won’t use it this year, but they could use it next year.

D18

Is there any way of telling if they are likely to come back to this particular roost?

NT

They will come back. It’s one of the reasons that they are protected because they come back sometimes for generations and many, many generations, decades.

D18

So if I’m building a structure and I’m not really focusing on the kind of roost, if it’s going to be a maternity roost or hibernation roost for e.g, I then just need to build a structure that has a variation in temperature?

NT

Yes, but you do want to have part of it where there is heat transmission. It is important!

We do get breeding colonies of species called Natterer’s and Long Eared that are both woodland specialists, but they tend to be in the boxes that have got a little bit of light and hence heat being able to get to them.

You put them right in dense conifer like that, they will very unlikely get used, although that would be a really good place to feed because Conifer stays warm later in the year.

It doesn’t lose the heat. Of course, there’s no leaves but from a bat box perspective, that’s too thick. You never get any sun. So although they generate heat by clustering, the solar insulation will help them. And so they’ll go to the place where they use less energy. So if they can get in a box where they can cluster but they can get higher heat because the box in the air around it itself is warm. That’s less energy they’re using than you would have to use it to those those trees. So something in deep woodland generally isn’t as good.

And it is also quite intriguing with the buildings here. A lot of these trees I can’t see much evidence of things like woodpecker holes or natural splits in trees. Because they rely on either woodpecker’s excavated holes, splits down to weathering or lighting strikes, trees falling over, or whatever it might be, natural features that are created by the way a woodland ages. Hooke Park is quite heavily managed. So I imagine a lot of the trees that might have provided those kinds of features have been taken out, so the perfect woodland for bats is what we call minimum intervention areas.

But the felt would have to be traditional bitumen felt and not a breathable membrane.

Breathable membrane is woven and when the bats land on it, they un-weave it and get their feet caught in it and die. Whereas the traditional one type 1F, the pressed nonmoving felt works.

So whenever we are advising a householder it has got to be this one. It’s pressed nonwoven felt and definitely not a breathable membrane regardless of what some current suppliers are saying. These are the kind of things that are thick.

So, I find bats underneath these tiles sometimes (holding up another tile).

Basically, you just leave it to be natural if a tree falls over and it snagged on another tree.

You leave it because eventually it will crack it, rot and split. And that creates a placement.

So, heavily managed woodlands can be quite a challenge from a bat perspective for a living. You see what I mean? Because there aren’t any natural places for them to go which could be advantageous for your box because you’re providing them something that you haven’t got out there.

NT

(Walking towards the long table by Westminster Lodge where roof tiles are laid out) Ah okay, so before we go into Westminster Lodge, I just want to show you this. I’ve been sampling roof tiles. I’m trying to use as much free material. This is me and another student, Ele, we’ve been sampling materials.

To build the box out of?

D18

Yes, so I mean, I don’t know if this is a good idea, but in a way kind of replicating a roof.

And I was also able to sample slates.

NT

So are you thinking you would use these on the roof of the box or you would somehow build the box out these?

D18

NT

I think the structure itself is going to be timber.

D18

NT

I see, that would be very relevant for me when I take on projects in the future.

Yes, so what you are doing is exceptionally timely because from a bat worker’s perspective, the biggest frustration (without wanting to be nasty about architects) is dealing with people who just say “No” or they have no concept of what it is you’re trying to do. So getting that kind of information across to people about the early stages and having a guidebook, that would be great!

Untreated timber. Preferably hardwood.

Untreated because you don’t want chemicals harming the bats and softwood has got more of sappy content to it. It’s a bit sticky inside, so hardwood preferably. If you were going to use some of these on the roof, I would be looking at slate on a house build and you can incorporate this into bat house. On a house build, you would have the rafters, then you would put your felt along and you would put your batons on it, then the tiles on the baton.

You could replicate that with these, especially if you are doing a bigger box.

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D18

And do you know of the National Planning Policy Framework ? Basically, what NPPF says is that not only should development not negatively impact biodiversity, but it should also seek to enhance it. So the idea is, whatever you are doing, it should be enough to replace a bat box with a bat box, it should be more bat boxes. I mean that is a very simplistic view but you understand what I mean. There are some aspects of the NPPF that may hopefully become enshrined in law under what they call a net biodiversity gain.

The idea is that you will be legally obliged when undertaking work on a property to implement features for biodiversity even if you had none there in the first place.

SPECTROGRAM OF ANIMAL CALLS AT NIGHT, RECORDS AND VISUALISED BY KE YANG Ke Yang, 2019

EXPLORING THE SOUNDSCAPES Ke Yang, 2019

recorded by Ke Yang

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The richness of the woodland’s species, landscape and atmosphere has created diverse soundscapes.

The songs from the calling birds, the moans from the creaking trees, the sounds of the running streams and various kinds of natural sounds are working collectively to create a unique site-specific “Biophony”.

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Recording 01

Eurasian Wren

Mistle Thrush

Forest White Noise SPECTROGRAM OF ANIMAL CALLS AT NIGHT Ke Yang, 2019

Blue Tit

SQUIRRELS ARE REGULARLY SHOT UNDER THE WOODLAND WILDLIFE CONTROL MANAGEMENT PLAN. HERE, A DESIGN+MAKE STUDENT, CAROLINA, IS STUDYING THE BIOLOGY OF ONE OF THE DEAD SQUIRREL. image: Shidi Fu, 2019

A SALT DRIED SQUIRREL COAT HANGING IN THE DESIGN+MAKE STUDIO image: Diploma 18, 2019

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A NO-FUSS WAY TO CARRY SAMPLES THROUGH THE WOODS Lydia Liu, Hooke Park, 2019

FLORA

Ele Mun, Alice Nobel, Ke Yang

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This chapter presents the various wood species as well as some of the fungus found in in Hooke Park.

Nearly all wood material used in Hooke Park’s workshop is sourced from the surrounding forest.

As the woodland holds a mixture of conifers and broad-leaved trees, there is a great selection of both hardwood and softwood.

“If you go back 50-100 years wood lands were very critical for societies because you had communities...�

Christopher Sad

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TREE SPECIES MAP Ele Mun, 2019

source: Hooke Park, Zachary Mollica

There are 15 mapped tree species within the boundaries of Hooke Park, the two most dominating being the beech and the Norway spruce. Each cluster succeeds in formulating its own environment, creating a plethora of different conditions to explore through the seasons.

AS - Ash

SC - Sweet Chestnut

BE - Beech

CP - Corsican pine

OA - Oak

PO - Poplar

SY - Sycamore

RC - Red cedar

NS - Norway spruce

AL - Alder

DF - Douglas fir

LA - Larch

RO - Red oak

SS- Sitka spruce

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MB - Mixed broadleaf

images and drawings by Ele Mun and Alice Nobel, 2019

Norway Spruce

Larch

Douglas Fir

Corsican Pine

Beech

Ash

Alder

~ 27 m

35 - 55 m

~ 40 m

30 - 40 m

20 - 30 m

20 - 25 m

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Red Cedar

Sycamore

Sweet Chestnut

Sitka Spruce

Red Oak

Poplar

Oak

23 - 37 m

30 - 37 m

28 - 43 m

24 - 35 m

50 - 60 m

40 - 50 m

40 - 50 m

“We are impacting the woodland by managing it” Christopher Sadd

Alder Alnus glutinosa Timber veneers, plywood, charcoal for gunpowder, clogs and piles/support systems - the alder tree is easy to work with both the hand and machine tools and is especially easy to sand down.

Although severe reactions are uncommon, the alder in the Alder has interestingly been reported to cause eye, skin and respiratory irritation.

Ash Fraxinus The ash responds exceptionally well to steam bending, a process often experimented with at Hooke Park. Ash is often used for furniture, flooring, millwork, box/crates and turned objects such as tool handles.

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It has also been reported to cause skin irritation and disruption to the lung’s functions - again, severe reactions are uncommon.

Beech Fagus Timber from the beech responds well to steam-bending as well. It machines and turns well, and is often used for firewood, boats, veneer, flooring, turned objects as well as musical instruments, down to piano pinblocks.

Corsican Pine Pinus nigra maritima

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The corsican pine is good for general building work, ornament, staircases, and doors. The timber is often processed into plywood for general use. Corsican pine glues and finishes well, but is often considered inferior when compared to the scots pine.

Douglas Fir Pseudotsuga menziesii The douglas fir towers over Hooke Park. It typically machines well but has a moderate blunting effect on cutters. It accepts stains, glues, and finishes well. The timber is often used for beams, veneers, furniture, cladding, decking, and flooring.

Larch Larix

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The larch has the characteristics of hardwood and is therefore popular for cladding. It is a deciduous tree and loses its needles in the autumn. Often used for heavy carpentry, exterior, and interior joinery as well as flooring.

Norway Spruce Picea abies The norway spruce is easy to work with, particularly when there are no knots present in the grain. It holds onto Santa’s gifts for you during Christmas and is also used for musical instrument soundboards.

Oak Quercus

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The oak is good with both hand and machine tools, it responds well to steam-bending and is one of the hardest, most durable timbers available. Used for cabinetry, furniture, interior trim, flooring, and boat building, it has a signature smell that is common to most oaks.

Poplar Populus Poplar is easy to work with, but is very soft. Due to its low density, it can sometimes leave fuzzy surfaces and edges. It is used for pallets, crates, upholstered furniture frames, paper, and plywood.

Red Oak Quercus rubra

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The timber produces good results with hand and machine tools, it has moderately high shrinkage values, resulting in mediocre dimensional stability, especially in flatsawn boards. It is used for cabinetry, furniture, interior trim, flooring, and veneer.

Sitka Spruce Picea sitchensis Small trees are particularly useful for paper, while matured trees are used to make boats and ships, pallets and packing boxes.

It typically takes 35 years for a faster-growing sitka spruce to be harvested.

Sweet Chestnut Castanea sativa

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The chestnut, easy to work with both hand and machine tools, although it splits easily.

Therefore it is important to take extra care when nailing and screwing the wood. The tree is widely cultivated for the edible seeds which it produces and is used for furniture, veneer and carvings.

Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus The timber is excellent for carving and works easily with machine tools, although the interlocked grain can be troublesome for machining operations. It has been largely debated as to whether or not the species is native to the UK. Sycamore is used for veneer, plywood, interior trim, pallets/ crates, flooring, furniture, tool handles, and other turned objects.

Red Cedar Thuja plicata

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The red cedar dents and scratches quite easily due to its softness. There is quite a difference between the earlywood and latewood as far as density is concerned. Used for shingles, exterior sliding, boat building, and musical instruments, the timber gives out a strong aromatic scent when worked with.

WOOD SAMPLES

images: Alice Nobel, Bedford Square London, 2019

WOOD SAMPLES FROM HOOKE PARK

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This “Sample Key Fob” is a collection of some of Hooke Park’s most used tree species: Beech, Red Cedar, Ash, Norway Spruce and Douglas Fir. The samples have been given to Bedford Square’s timber workshop. The aim is to enhance interaction between the two workshops and make London students aware of AA’s timber resources in Dorset.

THE WOODLAND’S UNSUNG HEROES

When James mentioned that he had witnessed bioluminescent fungi on the forest floor during our last camping trip, I had a heightened desire to seek out these creatures. I read about how fungi work in symbiosis with specific tree species in the book The Secret Life of Tree.

It reminded me that the trees are only 60 years old while the soil is the ancient aspect of Hooke Park’s woodlands.

images and text by Joyce Ng, Hooke Park, 2019-2020

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“What we are trying to do, is to redesign and restructure the woodland in order to have many more different ages of trees” Christopher Sadd, Head Forester

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NICOLE CARRYING HORSETAIL (EQUISETUM) USUALLY A SIGN OF WET SOIL Lydia Liu, Hooke Park, October 2019

“You can do whatever you want to these bracken and help me to get rid of them.”

Christopher Sadd, Head Forester

drawings by Ke Yang, London, 2020

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Bracken Pteridium aquilinum is one of the world’s most successful plants and also one of the oldest, with fossil records of at least 55 million years old. It is a large fern that favours dry, acid soils and spreads as the underground rhizomes grow. Spores can be found on the outer edge under the leaves, which creates a unique linear, leaf-edge pattern.

Bracken can be found on the two sides of rides with more exposure to sunlight. Moreover, bracken growing in high density is found on the southwest-facing slopes where there is more direct sunlight.

The distribution of bracken in Hooke Park has a strong connection to the distribution of tree species. Bracken stands are more likely to be found in coniferous woodland because the fell acorns will acidify the soil, which is preferred by bracken. All of the clear-cutting sites are also colonised by bracken.

Bracken Site

1m drawings by Ke Yang, London, 2020

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As a pioneer plant, bracken colonises a land after regeneration rapidly and the toxins it releases will inhibit the growth of other plant species including young trees.

AERIAL VIEW OF BRACKEN AROUND THE “ARUP TOWER” image from drone footage by Ke Yang, Hooke Park, March 2020

THE MYSTERIOUS PLACE THAT WE WERE TOLD NO ONE EVER GOES TO. WE HAD TO CHECK IT OUT. image: Diploma 18, Hooke Park “Island”, 2019

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HOOKE PARK AND THE “ISLAND” sketch by Nicole Ng, 2019

THE “ISLAND”

Shreya Kochatta, Nicole Ng, Connie Lynn Tang

An unmanaged plot of woodland that is separated from the rest of Hooke Park’s woodlands is nicknamed the “island”. It is a 20acre plot surrounded by grazing fields where the AA has a right of access through them.

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The “island” is an example of an artificial wood when it is unmanaged and left alone.

A JOURNEY ACROSS THE FIELD INTO THE WOODLAND “ISLAND”

image: still frame from video by Nicole Ng + Connie Lynn Tang, Hooke Park “Island”, 2020

DIPLOMA 18 ENTERING THE “ISLAND” OF HOOKE PARK image: Aude-line Dulière, October 2019

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A SITE IN HOOKE PARK NICKNAMED THE “ISLAND”

image: Aerial shot from drone footage by Ke Yang, Hooke Park, March 2020

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An isolated 20 acre plot that has been nicknamed the “Island” is separated from Hooke Park’s woodland campus. It bears the physical characteristics of an island because it is surrounded by a sea of privately owned grazing fields. We have a right of access through this field in the photograph.

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“ISLAND” IN RELATION TO HOOKE PARK source: Google Satellite Imagery

LOCATION The main access route into the island is through the same main road where the entrance of Hooke Park campus is located along.

The map location is Pigs Moor Coppice/ Horse Moor Coppice Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3NX

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GPS COORDINATES 50 48’06.6N 2 40’21.1W 50.801843, -2.672532

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ACCESS ROUTES IN THE “ISLAND” Nicole Ng + Connie Lynn Tang, 2020 source: Based on trips made in 2020

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Issues Long distance through muddy terrain

PERIMETER FENCING ALONG THE EDGE OF THE“ISLAND”

image: Still frame from video by Nicole Ng + Connie Lynn Tang, Hooke Park, 2020

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1850 : Existed as two different coppices

1970 : Forestry Commission plants the field

STATE OF ISLAND IN 1850 (BEFORE PLANTATION) AND 1970 (AFTER PLANTATION) source: Forestry Commission Inventory 1950

HISTORY

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Before being acquired as part of the Hooke estate, the island was managed as two different coppices - Horsemoor Coppice and Pigsmoor Coppice.

It also had a patch of field in the middle that separated both the spaces.

The plantation of the island along with its ownership has changed a lot in the 100 years. The changes have reflected on its landscape and ground conditions. The “Island” is an amalgamation of three spaces. It also changed at a different pace to the managed part Hooke Park.

MAP 1950

During the plantation of Hooke Park main

THE LANDSCAPE EXISTED AS TWO DIFFERENT SPACES

MAP 1970

In 1970s, when the Forestry commission harvested timber from the two coppices and planted additional trees in the middle. The island was then acquired by the AA as part of their Hooke Park campus. Since the last planting, it has fallen into neglect.

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after Forest Commission planting

SATELLITE RECORD OF THE ISLAND IN 2001

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THE DARKEST PART OF THE “ISLAND” - A YOUNG PLANTATION WITH BRANCHES IN YOUR WAY image: Nicole Ng + Connie Lynn Tang, Hooke Park “Island”, February 2020

Woodland Management Plan

Woodland Management Plan

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This section must be fully completed by the applicant if they wish to gain felling licence approval from the Forestry Commission. The work

10 Thinning, felling and restocking proposals See maps 5 & 6

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1.4

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100

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100

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2.8

100

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560

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200

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UC C

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50/25/

UC 90

favouring larger stems

20/5 130

UC

NS/BE

2g

No action in period

Heavy selective thin

______________________________________________________________________ 2e 23 DF/RC 0.80 25 11h 0.7 12a

Oak,ash,alder P 2004 Yr 6 - 10 Yr 11 – 20

UC

SS/DF

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2d

100

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periods (m3) Borders public road -

40/10/10/40

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100

C reate open parkland feel restocking with scattered

2j

BE

12f

2.6

100

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30

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0.5

100

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100

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2.3

100

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10

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13c

2.5

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1.5

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0.5

1.20 70

MC 90

UC

PAWS

C

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0.60

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2018/19

MB

C

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2018/19

MC

MC 100

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10

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100

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10

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100

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groups P80 HL MB

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5095

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5

UC C

P50 PO restock with AH /

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40

3j

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0.50

15

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MC

2.50

FORESTRY OPERATION SCHEDULE IN WOODLAND MANAGEMENT PLAN

65

Christopher Sadd, 2014 ______________________________________________________________________ source: Hooke Park Woodland Management Plan

19

DELAYS IN FORESTRY OPERATIONS Hooke Park Woodland Management Plan 2014-2024 Delays in forestry operation plans and a backlog of operations in the main woodland of v due to increasingly wet and difficult ground condition and a lack of manpower have left the “Island” unmanaged.

Forestry operations are prioritised in the main woodland of Hooke Park. Considering that the whole site has been exceptionally wet these couple of years, a lot of the planned operations have been delayed. Highlighted in red are the thinning and felling plans for compartments in the “Island” that were meant to be executed in 2018/2019. There are currently only forestry plans for the main woodlands of Hooke Park for the next 5 years.

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The Hooke Park Woodland Management Plan was launched in 2014 with the support of grants from Forestry Commission through grants like the Plan Preparation Grant (PPG) and the Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS). As Hooke Park is not currently under any grant scheme, a lot of the operations including ones in the “Island” have not yet been executed.

PLAN OF THE “ISLAND”

drawn by Nicole Ng + Connie Lynn Tang, London, 2020

NORWAY SPRUCE, SITKA SPRUCE AND SCOTS PINE

100M SITE PLAN AND IDENTIFICATION OF DOMINANT TREES IN THE “ISLAND”

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ALDER, ASH, BEECH, LARCH, OAK & SYCAMORE

CATALOGUE OF EXISTING NATURALLY REGENERATED PLANTS IN THE “ISLAND”

1 UNIDENTIFIED

7 LORDS-AND-LADIES Arum maculatum

2 SWAN’S-NECK THYME-MOSS

3 BABY TOOTH MOSS (?)

classification: mniaceae, moss

classification: mniaceae, moss

8 UNIDENTIFIED

9 COMMON HAIR-CAP Polytrichum commune

Mnium hornum

classification: araceae, wildflowers other names: cuckoo-pint

13 UNIDENTIFIED

Plagiomnium cuspidatum

classification: polytrichaceaem, plantae

14 UNIDENTIFIED

Identification done with the help of Georgie Corrywright images: Nicole Ng + Connie Lynn Tang, Hooke Park “Island”, March 2020

15 UNIDENTIFIED

classification: urticaceae, wildflowers

10 GOLDEN SAXIFRAGE Chrysosplenium classification: saxifragaceae

5 PRIMROSE Primula vulgaris

classification: primulaceae, wildflowers

11 COMMON TAMARISK-MOSS (?)

Thuidium tamariscinum classification: thuidiaceae, plantae

6 PRIMROSE Primula vulgaris

classification: primulaceae

12 NORWAY SPRUCE Picea abies

classification: pinaceae

16 JELLY EAR/ JEWS EAR Auricularia auricula-judae

17 DOGS MERCURY Mercurialis perennis

18 HEMLOCK WATER DROPWORT (?)

Oenanthe crocata

classification: fungi

classification: euphorbiaceae, plantae

classification: apiaceae, plantae

CAUTION: MILDLY POISONOUS

CAUTION: EXTREMELY POISONOUS

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4 STINGING NETTLE Urtica dioica

CLIMBER GROWING ON ANCIENT WOODLAND AREA IN THE “ISLAND” image: Shreya Kochatta, Hooke Park, 2020

ECOLOGY

The ecology of the “Island” is influenced not only by the various changes in its management but also by its neighbouring landscapes.

The presence of fields and River Hooke on its head, creates intersecting habitats and dynamic micro-biomes within the landscape.

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As a result, the ecosystem is one that consists a multitude of different microclimates. In addition to this, the unmanagement of the Island has resulted in it developing a resilient ecosystem - species that have managed to survive despite the changes. The following section talks about the various non-humans found in the landscape.

Bracket species of fungi are not allowed to grow in a managed woodland because they harm the quality of timber produced. The unmanagement of the “Island� has provided autonomy to some nonhumans.

Bracket fungi on a tree branch

Moss growing on a tree bark.

Bracethecyium Rutabulum is the common moss that grows in damp environments. Moss performs the function of a bio-filter in the landscape.

Bracethecyium Rutabulum growing on a trunk

Scarlet elfcup only grows in extremely damp environment. These grow short but dense mycelium network underground.

Scarlet Elfcup in the damp area near Hooke River

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drawn by Shreya Kochatta, London, 2020

DEATH SURROUNDS THIS PLACE...

THE SKELETON OF A FOX FOUND AMONGST DECOMPOSED MATTER AROUND Nicole Ng, Hooke Park “Island”, 2020

FOX TERRITORIES WITHIN THE ISLAND drawn by Shreya Kochatta, London, 2020

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ATMOSPHERES AND MOMENTS IN THE “ISLAND” PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN DURING EXCURSIONS INTO THE “ISLAND” IN FEBRUARY 2020

images: Nicole Ng + Connie Lynn Tang, 2020

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Within the “Island’s” 20-acre plot, the space is a multidimensional room that exhibits many different micro-climates and atmospheric qualities.

The following pages are a catalogue of atmospheres.

DENSE PLANTATION An analogue catalogue of atmospheres in the “Island” Characteristics Conifer plantation Very dark, sunlight enters space from the edges Observation notes There is a sense of interiority and monumentality to this place despite its degrading quality and its mono-cultural species and arrangement.

The only light can enter this place is from the sides or the edges of this plot. It was planted more recently than the rest of the woodland as a result of overturning by a storm in the 1980s.

Identified tree species

Sitka Spruce

Picea abies Norway Spruce

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Identified plant species

MATURING PLANTATION An analogue catalogue of atmospheres in the “Island” Characteristics Conifer plantation Direct sunlight Observation notes It is adjacent to a broadleaf plot. It seems to receive more sunlight.

Shade loving understorey/ground storey plants are observed under this canopy.

Identified tree species

Norway Spruce

R SWAMP

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Sunlight: Full shade/ Partial shade

Sunlight: Full shade/ Partial shade

Soil: Loam, Chalk, Sand, Clay

Soil: Loam, Chalk, Sand, Clay

Height 0.1-0.5m Spread 0.1-0.5m 5-10 years

Height 0.1-0.5m Spread 0.1-0.5m 5-10 years

Asplenium scolopendrium Fungus

Reriotritius Eatiam Moss

Identified plant species

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

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Reriotritius Eatiam Moss

SWAMP An analogue catalogue of atmospheres in the “Island” Characteristics Boggy and shaded canopy Broadleaf regeneration Observation notes The wetness of the site is the main feature of this site. The sheets of water reflects the sunlight, animating the place. Many wetland plants observed here.

THE MUD LAND Characteristics: Broadleaf Swamp - shade

Identified tree species

Beech

Identified plant species

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Asperuptas Fugia Hart’s tongue fern

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Asperuptas Hart’s tongu

Sunlight: Full shade/ Partial shade

Sunlight: Fu

Soil: Loam, Chalk, Sand, Clay

Soil: Loam,

Height 0.1-0.5m Spread 0.1-0.5m 5-10 years

Height 0.1-0 Spread 0.1-0 5-10 years

Bearioris busapiscit Hart’s tongue fern

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Ash

STREAM An analogue catalogue of atmospheres in the “Island” Characteristics Flowing water Very shaded Broadleaf regeneration Observation notes The stream is about 1m wide and it floods the banks. Many wetland plants can be found here, and because the stream is a form of a clearing/canopy gap, direct sunlight highlights the linearity of the stream.

THE STREAM Characteristics: Water

Identified tree species

Ash

Beech Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Asplenium Hart’s tong

Sunlight: Full shade/ Partial shade

Sunlight: F

Soil: Loam, Chalk, Sand, Clay

Soil: Loam,

Height 0.1-0.5m Spread 0.1-0.5m 5-10 years

Height 0.1Spread 0.15-10 years

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

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Identified plant species

Asplenium Hart’s tong

MOSS CARPET An analogue catalogue of atmospheres in the “Island” Characteristics Lots of direct sunlight Young broadleaves regenerated Observation notes This site is filled with young broadleaf trees. It seems like the site have been cleared by disturbances, bringing direct sunlight to this place.

Young trees and moss ground cover vibrantly inhabit this place.

THE MOSS CARPET Characteristics: Broadleaf Regeneration - sunlight

Identified tree species

Alder

Ash

Beech

Sycamore Reriotritius Eatiam Moss

Voluptatem Moss

Sunlight: Full shade/ Partial shade

Sunlight: F

Soil: Loam, Chalk, Sand, Clay

Soil: Loam

Height 0.1-0.5m Spread 0.1-0.5m

Height 0.1Spread 0.1

5-10 years

5-10 years

Reriotritius Eatiam Moss

Voluptatem Lacea Moss

Magnatias Nusanditas Moss

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Identified plant species

CLEARING An analogue catalogue of atmospheres in the “Island” Characteristics Scalloped clearing on the edge of the woodland Lots of direct sunlight Observation notes The field is bounded by an edge of mixed broadleaf trees. It is starting to be occupied by heathland plants that can’t be found in the interior of the wet woodland.

THE FIELD Characteristics: clearing - sunlight

Identified tree species

Alder

Ash

Beech

Syramore Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Asplenium Hart’s tong

Sunlight: Full shade/ Partial shade

Sunlight: F

Soil: Loam, Chalk, Sand, Clay

Soil: Loam

Height 0.1-0.5m Spread 0.1-0.5m 5-10 years

Height 0.1Spread 0.1 5-10 years

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

Asplenium scolopendrium Hart’s tongue fern

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Identified plant species

Asplenium Hart’s tong

AN OVERTURNED TREE DECIDES TO SHOW OFF ITS GLORIOUS UNDERSIDE Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, 2020

GREEN AND SILKY

Nicole Ng, Hooke Park “Island”, 2020

ht and database rights 2019. Ordnance Survey 100022861.

National Forestry Inventory, 2019

source: Department of Environment, Food, Rural Affairs (DEFRA), accessed 2019

WOODLAND MANAGEMENT Nicole Ng

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Hooke Park is a designated Ancient Woodland because it has historically been a woodland since the 1600s.

Centuries of undisturbed soils and accumulated decaying wood have created the perfect place for communities of fungi and invertebrates.

These ground conditions are what make Hooke Park valuable.

WPG Management Plan

Hooke Park Date (from/to)

2014 – 2024

Date of last review [UKWAS 2.1.3]

Certificate ref: SA-FM/COC 001446 Auditors: Pryor & Rickett Silviculture, Hereford.

Woodland Management Plan Owner/tenant

Architectural Association, 34-36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES.

Agent/contact

Christopher Sadd, Architectural Association, Hooke Park.

Archaeological Features

Map

01308 863 588

In Woodland

No.

Adjacent to woodland

Scheduled monument

Signed declaration Statutory declaration of tenure and management authority is of tenure rights available in the estates UKWAS file, copies of which are held in the registered parks and gardens) and agreements to London office as well as at Hooke Park.

Other * public availability of the plan [UKWAS Details 1.1.3/1.1.5/2.1.2] Boundary banks.

Historical feature (Inc. designed landscapes,

2.2 Woodland resource characteristics 1 Background Species compositioninformation and age class

Very little remains of the original woodland post the 1950 wholesale felling of Hooke Park though there are areas in compartments 3 and 9 that have retained these ancient semi 1.1 Location natural characteristics.

Nearest town,on village near Bridport Twelve years fromor thefeature initiationBeaminster of the Forest Plan, Norway spruce and beech remain Griddominant referencespecies. The felling SY 994 the and522 restocking during this period has begun to address Total area (ha)of the age class distribution c.140 the imbalance which currently stands at 65% of 60 years old, 20% at 20 years or more and the remaining 15% of 5-10 years old of mainly conifer plantings.

OtherDescription broadleaved species present are Ash, Oak, Alder, Sweet chestnut, Hazel, Hybrid 1.2 of the woodland(s) in the landscape poplar Conifers extend site to Douglas redrich cedar, Corsican pine, Hooke and ParkWillow. is an ancient woodland locatedfir, in aWestern landscape in biodiversity which Hybrid larch and Sitka spruce. is reflected in the number of nearby SAC, SSSI and SNCI comprising ancient woodland, Though diversity has significantly improved throughout the woodlands it links fen and structural acid, neutral and calcareous grasslands.

The north west boundary of Hooke remains limited to stand and ride edges and young plantations were there has been the into neighbouring woodlands of the Mapperton estate that represent a significant SSSI. recruitment of ash regeneration otherlocation native trees and Hooke Park therefore occupies a and strategic within theshrubs. catchment of the Powerstock Vale but has mostly been replanted since the 1950’s.

Composition Hooke Park Forest byfields Area and a network of The estate is mainly Species bounded by pasture of land comprising small hedgerows. The wood’s location on a moderate southwest slope rising steeply towards its north west boundary on top of Warren Hill makes it a prominent landscape feature Mi xed Conife- 29%

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Norwa y Spruce-

24%

9%

Young Pl nts MC- 10% Young Pl nts MB-

3%

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WOODLAND MANAGEMENT PLAN

source: Hooke Park Management Plan submitted to Forestry Commission

Woodland Management Plan

3

Long term vision, management objectives and strategy

3.1 Long term vision Hooke Park is the rural campus for the Architectural Association, made up of the forestry estate with a collection of buildings at its core. The planned expansion will require careful consideration of how the forest and the service infrastructure responds to an increase in use. The AA sees itself as the custodian of a special place where its activities must safeguard its landscape, ecological richness, recreational and amenity value but also manage the wood as a source of timber.

Refer to - Hooke Park Implementation Plan 2013-16 available on request.

3.2 Management Objectives 1. To produce a sustainable supply of fuel wood and timber.

2. To conserve and enhance the existing wildlife communities by maintaining and increasing habitat biodiversity.

3. To maintain and develop public access and recreational facilities by improving the internal landscape for those walking and using the woods.

4. To provide a facility for the AA students as a setting for projects with in situ source of timber.

5. To make a positive contribution to the local economy and landscape.

6. To maintain a robust strategy to reduce deer and squirrel numbers plus other pests.

7. Maintain and improve the infrastructure network and undertake necessary safety Woodland Management Plan work.

8 Costing Operations 3.3 Strategy It is Architectural anticipated that any net loss incurred after income, grant funding and other The Association see themselves astimber custodians of the woodlands.

Careful income egtorecreation willdetail be bourne by thethe Architectural attention silvicultural will remain overriding Association. long term objective. Not only The budget is for quality the firsttimber five years of the planstudents only andasshown below as outline will this helpforecast secure good for use by the well as external projected costs andalso income. markets but it will assure a continued and reliable source of income. Though there ______________________________________________________________________ are external policy pressures to favour as much as possible the restoration of more Year 2014 2016 2017 2018 in the Total native characteristics to planting 2015 native broadleaved species the opportunity face of a changing climate to plant a range of more exotic species.

Income The recent, further of the access unthinned Timber Harvesting CF expansion 8640 / track network, 11920 will help 13675 1000 stands.

35235 Public access and will 23000 continue to develop the woodlands special Timber Harvesting Th recreation 17800 18100 offering 18100 14900as a91900 place for local schools and other educational groups.

AM Grant 4153 4153 4153 4153 4153 20765 Restock Grant

3237

Recreation

1300

/ 1400

5950

/

/

9187

1500

1700

1700

7600

____________________________________________________________________________ Total Income

35130

28553

41623

37628

21753

164687

Harvesting

12000

16000

15400

12100

11000

66500

2500

2000

6180

7500

400

21240

3200

3500

3600

15100

______________________________________________________________________ 8 Expenditure Ground Preparation

1500

Restocking

7160

Maintenance *

2350

/ / 2450

/

6000

____________________________________________________________________________ Total Expenditure

23010

18450

27280

25100

15000

108840

Total Income

12120

10100

14240

12520

6750

55840

*Includes post planting, estate & recreation maintenance costs.

9 Maps Maps appended to plan: Map no./Title

Description

Hooke Park Woodland Boundary 1 Woodland Boundary & Physical Features The most recent Woodland Management Plan was submitted in 2014 which takes 2 Ecological Features effect for 10 2024. The plan describes AA's relationship to the woodlands 3 years until Constraints 4 as the "custodian ofSubcompartments this special place" and details the long term strategy for the 5 Felling Operations Year 1-5 woodland as an educational and recreational setting for both students and locals.

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Overhead costs ie insurances; salaries etc are not included in the above table .

HOOKE PARK IS DESIGNATED AS AN ANCIENT WOODLAND Despite being designated as ancient woodland, the trees at Hooke Park are only 60 years old (planted after the Second World War). Ancient Woodlands are encouraged to promote broadleaf tree regeneration, as the tree species are native to the UK.

"In the few centuries following the last ice age, most of England developed into woodland – the so called wildwood. The fragments of this once extensive woodland which still survive are our ancient woodlands, but they now cover only around 3% of England’s land area."

"Our ancient woodlands are quintessential features

Jim Knight, MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity), Ancient Woodlands Guidance Document, 2019

image: Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

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of England's much-loved landscapes - irreplaceable, living historic monuments which inspire us and provide us with a sense of place and history in an increasingly frenetic world"

ANCIENT WOODLAND BOUNDARY LINE (c) Crown Copyright Ancient Woodland, 2019 and database rights 2019. Ordnance Survey 100022861. source: Department of Environment, Food, Rural Affairs (DEFRA) accessed 2019

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0

0.5

km

PROTECTION DESIGNATIONS

Two designations protect the biodiversity and wildlife in Hooke Park’s woodlands.

Ancient woodlands are defined in the UK as areas that have been continuously wooded since 1600. The designation is a conservation policy. As a habitat type, ancient woodland has no statutory protection per se, but it is explicitly mentioned in planning policy. Policy prohibits developments that damage ancient woods “unless the benefits of the development… outweigh the loss”.

Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area. Natural England’s objective is to achieve ‘favourable condition’ status for all SSSIs. This means that the SSSI’s habitats and features are in a healthy state and are being conserved by appropriate management. Landowners must manage land within a SSSI effectively and appropriately to conserve the special features of the site such as grazing animals, managing woodland and controlling water levels.

Grassland Maize Oilseed Rape Other Crops Spring Barley Spring Wheat Winter Wheat and Oats

DEFRA, 2019

source: Natural England, Forestry Commission, accessed 2019

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Site of Special Scientific Interest Ancient Woodland

Stakeholder

Interest

COMMITTEE ON CLIMATE CHANGE UK Advisory Board

Afforest

FORESTRY COMMISSION UK Authority Board

Ancient

NATURAL ENGLAND UK Authority Board

Site of S Area of

TO BE CONFIRMED

HOOKE PARISH Dorset

Rural pa Commu

TIMBER SAWMILLS BUSINESSES Dorset

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ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION Architecture school

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CHRISTOPHER SADD Head Forester

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RESIDENTS OF HOOKE PARK

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HORACE AND ELLEN WAKEFORD BEQUEST Representative of the family whose donation created the Wakeford Bequest

Support dedicate ecologic

STAKEHOLDERS OF HOOKE PARK'S WOODLANDS AND THEIR INTERESTS Nicole Ng, London, 2019

Scale

tation (To increase forest cover from 13% to 19% by 2050)

Woodland

Special Scientific Interest

National

National

National

ark unity meeting point

Local

pplier

Local

nd campus for educational programmes

AA Community

ing woodlands from even aged to mixed aged

AA Community

unity: Work. Eat. Live

AA Community

t Hooke Park’s educational vision to be UK’s first campus ed to a hand-on, experimental approach of alternative and cally sustainable design and building

Patrons

Despite having ownership of the woodland of Hooke Park, the AA is subject to national policies and designations that define its use. The woodland is also a public space for the local community so Hooke Park has to balance the interests of its stakeholders.

Conifers are more suited for the needs of Hooke Park's programmes. They grow faster and are more suitable construction material. However, under the conservation designations, native Broadleaf species are encouraged for regeneration.

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Outstanding Natural Beauty

Volume of Trees

Native broadleave protected by Ancie Woodland designa

All Broadleaf

Beech

Native Broadleaf (Alder,Oak)

90% 10%

conifers reach maturity

All Conifers Norway Spruce

Before 1900

1949

STRUCTURE OF THE WOODLANDS

1986

Other broadleaved species present are Ash, Oak, Alder, Sweet chestnut, Hazel, Hybrid poplar and Willow. Conifers extend to Douglas fir, Western red cedar, Corsican pine, Hybrid larch and Sitka spruce.

1

ch

1999

Gradual low volume felling before broadleaves reach maturity

broadleaves reach maturity

?

50% Replanting

50%

?

2019

2049

Time

Hooke Park was initially planted as an even-aged structure with 90% of the woodland replanted in 1947. Over the years, Christopher Sadd, the head forester has been introducing strategies to make the woodland a more diverse structure, by felling trees prematurely and introducing experimental species into the woodland. Since 2000s, Norway spruce have been ready for felling. Trees have been felled in phases and gradually over time. 2050, 20% of Hooke Park's timber species which is beech will reach maturity. A varied strategy will be applied to manage harvesting and income generation.

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es ent ation

CLEARFELLING IN HOOKE PARK image: Ke Yang, 2020

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The aim of the woodland management plan is to fell all the remaining mature conifer stands within the next 10 years. The ideal would be to avoid any future wholesale clear felling and to develop more of a shelter wood system whereby retaining an over-storey to supply a source of natural regeneration and giving shelter to planted trees.

THINNING

In many woods, trees that are planted close together let very little light to the woodland floor. In some wood, this is good for the species living there, but in many others, it means that few herbs and shrubs can survive and the wood looks dark and uninviting. Because the trees are all competing with each other for the light they often become tall and spindly.

THINNING

Forestry Commission, 2011

source : Thinning Practice : A Silvicultural Guide

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Thinning removes the less healthy or less desirable trees and gives the remaining trees more space to develop. It also allows light to the woodland floor, encouraging an ‘understorey’ of small plants, shrubs, and trees to develop. The art of the forester is to change the light levels to the benefit of the understorey and ground flora, to allow the remaining trees to develop better crowns but without letting in too much wind, which may cause damage.

PRUNING

The most valuable trees for timber are those where the trunk is perfectly straight and branch free. To achieve this, the trees must either be allowed to grow extremely densely or you can remove unwanted branches with secateurs while the branches are still very small.

2

1

A B

Correct pruning cuts should be made as close as possible to the branch collar - do not remove the branch collar 1 2 3 AB

BEFORE PRUNING

UNDERCUT (do this first) SECOND CUT FINAL CUT (at A & B) EDGE OF BRANCH COLLAR

SELECTED BRANCHES TO BE PRUNED

PRUNING

Improving Your Woodland, 2015 source: Royal Forestry Society

image: Valerie Bennett for AALog, Hooke Park, February 2015

AFTER PRUNING

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3

“We always thought that with climate change, the trees will grow quicker. Instead, the trees produce more leaf litter. You actually get more carbon dioxide that is released in the soil. Because the trees are growing faster, they are producing a soup from their roots that stimulates the soil to produce more carbon dioxide.�

- Nigel Fisher, Conservator of Wytham Woods

DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEADWOOD FOUND IN WOODLAND

source: Illustrations from Managing deadwood in forests and woodlands practice guide

IMPORTANCE OF DEADWOOD

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Until the late 20th century, deadwood in managed forests was removed due to a misconception of the need to sanitise woodland to secure forest health – or simply to keep a wood looking ‘tidy’.

Today it is increasingly recognised that deadwood is a vital component in the functioning forest ecosystem, supported by the fact that deadwood has been selected as the universal indicator of sustainable forest management in Europe. In addition to a wide range of plant and animal species depending on dead or dying wood for habitat or as a food source, deadwood plays important roles in carbon, nutrient, and hydrological cycles and is a key structural component influencing ecosystem processes such as erosion. Additionally, deadwood plays a part in mitigating the effects of climate change, acting as a medium-term sink for carbon. In a report by the Forestry Commission they suggested foresters engaged with felling should provide deadwood at felling time by retaining live standing trees, standing deadwood and downed trees, preferably in groups, in order to provide some ecological continuity between one forest stand and the next.

MANAGEMENT OF WILDLIFE

Hooke Park is as much a home to wildlife, as it is to people. Unfortunately, some wildlife is detrimental to the management of the woodland. The two animal species that are monitored in Hooke Park are deer and grey squirrels.

DEER SPOTTING TOWER IN HOOKE PARK

image: Andrew Robertson, 2019

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Deer eat young growing trees, which is especially problematic when trying to repopulate felled areas.

Strategies that are used in Hooke Park to protect saplings include deer hunting, fencing young plantations, and protecting growing trees individually with plastic tubing.

“The deer population absolutely affects everything. It is the biggest ecosystem driver in the woodlands.

We know how many deers to cull by observing the number of tree seedlings coming up ”

THE LOWER SECTION OF A TRUNK IS SUBJECTED TO DAMAGE BY DEERS SCRATCHING THEIR ANTLERS ON IT image: Nicole Ng, 2019

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FENCING TO PROTECT YOUNG PLANTATIONS image: Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

image: Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

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PIPING TO PROTECT INDIVIDUAL SAPLINGS

DEER SKULL FOUND JUST OUTSIDE HOOKE PARK

image: Andrew Robertson, taken at the fence of Hooke Park, 2020

“We are overpopulated with deer and they tend to do a lot of damage in a woodland environment, especially if you’re trying to establish trees where you have taken out an area of trees... We have to control the deer and the way we do that, unfortunately or fortunately, is that we have to shoot the deer.

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REDDIT THREAD ABOUT THE MEANING OF HANGING DEER SKULLS

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“It tells deer to stay away.”

The principal Object of Management should be to secure maximum prosperity for the employer and the employee, It is to develop each man to his maximum efficiency and that maximum prosperity can only exist as a result of maximum productivity.

- Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principle of Scientific Management, 1911

WHAT DOES “MANAGEMENT” MEAN? From the origin of the word ”woodland” to the initial preservation efforts, woodland management has been largely human centric. The following timeline is based on an article by G.D. Holmes on the history of woodland management, and it shows that forests have always been a resource rather than a source.

Preservation efforts were first recorded when the timber resource was decreasing at an alarming rate or when there were not enough areas left for royal hunts. The primary goal of which is to promote management of the woodlands, something further encouraged by Natural capital committee set up to put a value to the nature that Britain holds today.

Management of woodland can be compared to the Fordist era book by Freidrick Winslow Taylor. We cannot help but draw parallels of how nonhumans are expected to follow an order, a rule or a principle that where maximum production is maximum prosperity. However, do the trees care if they are pruned or not? We can start to question our intentions behind the desire to manage wildlife.

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UNDERNEATH THE ROOTS REVEALED A WHOLE WORLD OF INSECTS, VEGETATION AND ROCK TYPES SOMETHING THAT EXCITED LYDIA TO HER BONES. Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

LIFE AND DEATH OF A TREE Nicole Ng, Clara Schwarz

image: Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

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This chapter follows the journey of a tree, from logs to timber.

Felling trees with chainsaw

Tree felling and harvesting

Marking trees

Timber products and by-products

Saw-milling

Log stack

PROCESSES FROM TREES TO LOGS TO TIMBER drawn by Nicole Ng

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Computerised sawmilling - putting the logs through the saw

Timber

Offcuts (sometimes used as firewood)

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Removing logs using a winch and truck

TIMBER HARVESTING SCHEDULE Contract Ref: HP/ Thin/Oct 2017/Sherwood Estate/Owner: The Architectural Association

Wood: Hooke Park DT8 3PH

Cpts: 7a (total boundary marked in blue on attached map) Crop (Age & Species): 60yrs NS/OK Area (ha): c.7.85 (total area) Approximate Quantity: N/A General Details of Work: Selective thinning of both species. The initial work to prioritise the NS. Trees to be felled are marked with ORANGE paint (discount all old marks). A minimum of feller selection where necessary, can be carried out. Directional felling to be carried out keeping damage to main crop oaks to a minimum. Fresh windblow to be salvaged. Keep damage to the shrub and natural regeneration understorey to a minimum. Avoid damage to standing trees during skidding operations. Plan extraction so as to minimise ground damage. Any additions or revisions to these General Details will be discussed and agreed beforehand.

These will be noted. Please refer to Environmental Constraint map attached.

Timber Specifications to be cut in order of preference (the owner reserves the right to alter specifications at any time) Product Species D & M Log NS/DF

Size Quality 5.1m (ideal), 6.1m & 4.1m x 30cm absolute min td ub.

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Additional specifications will be notified verbally and noted. D & M and agreed volume and spec. Tbc Extraction & Stacking/Loading Bay/s: Pontrilas logs to be stacked ‘local’ to each cpt. and adjacent to main forest track for ease of collection by lorries.

Chip to be forwarded to chip barn and stacked.

D & M Log to be forwarded and stacked adjacent to main drive. Site tbc. All log td’s to be presented in the stack as one face.

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PREPARING THE SITE

source: Christopher Sadd, 2017, Felling contract for Sherwood Harvesters

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Areas due for harvest are marked out a map in accordance with the woodland management plan. Individual trees are marked by Christopher Sadd in accordance with the felling contract that is provided to the contractor. This contract outlines the specifications needed for various timber products.

TIMBER HARVESTING

source: Lucas Wilson, Hooke Park

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TRACTOR MOUNTED WINCH source: Zachary Mollica, Hooke Park

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After felling, the harvester chops away the branches and leaves them deadwood. He connects the logs to a winch and the harvester vehicle (located on the dirt road) pulls the logs towards itself. These logs are loaded and stored at accessible locations along the dirt road.

TIMBER SAWMILL

images: Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

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After trees are felled and extracted from woodland using a winch and a forklift, they are taken here to the sawmill to be sliced. Any leftover or waste is taken to the Woodchip Barn to be used as a biofuel.

TIMBER SEASONING SHELTER

images: Nicole Ng, Hooke Park, 2019

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After going through the sawmill, the timber has to be dried. Most timber in Hooke Park is air-dried under this shelter. Air-drying can reduces the moisture content down to 20% in a few months.

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Christopher Sadd is the Head Forester of Hooke Park and the longest standing member of its community. He has been working as the forester since the 1980s.

His partner-in-crime is a brown Jack Russell mix named Treasure.

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Chris talks to Diploma 18 about the wildlife and the woodland of Hooke Park.

The text is transcribed by Nicole Ng and Ke Yang from a conversation with Chris in the Refectory on 23rd October 2019.

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image: Diploma 18, Hooke Park Refectory after lunch, 23 October 2019

The Forest Commission started after the First World War, when they saw a need for somebody to intervene in restocking our woodland. The first records of Hooke Park were in the 1600s, since then it has passed through a succession of private owners.

What has Hooke been used for?

At one point it was a royal deer park, owned by the king. It moved to a succession of owners, then the Forest Commission took over for 25 years and replanted the whole woodland. Afterwards, the Parnham Trust, John Makepeace, a well-known furniture maker with a group of friends and trustees, acquired the woodlands. Then the AA came along, in the 2000s, took over the management and ownership of the 150 hectares woodlands, which equates to about 350 acres in all.

Do evergreen trees stay green all year round?

All year round, but in fact, evergreens are losing their leaves constantly. All of our trees are the same generation, which is not good for many reasons. One of them is that our income source, comes at one time.

What we are trying to do, is to redesign and restructure the woodland in order to have a variety of tree ages: creating a more attractive woodland, not only for people but for wildlife as well. There are many benefits of having a woodland with many species.

For example Norway Spruce and Beech have been used as timber for structures. The wood of the workshop and the Westminster Lodge is from the woodland here (89% of it).

What are the strategies you use to manage wildlife?

We have to control certain animals in the woods, for example deer‌ we are overpopulated with deer and they tend to do a lot of damage in a woodland environment especially if you’re trying to establish trees where you have taken out an area of trees.

Deer will come in and eat young trees. In order to control the deer we have to shoot them. We do from specific platforms to control the trajectory of the bullet.

Are there any specific areas in Hooke Park that are particularly wet and windy?

Unfortunately, the whole of Hooke Park is all of those things. It is a very wet wood all year round. Because of its topography, it is sloping down. Its high points are mainly clay, which is always wet. It is not easy to find a dry spot.

“The campus needs to grow, but it should be done very sensitively.

There is the issue of human impact, which we will need to explore how to deal with.”

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Are you obliged to replant native species?

No, they can’t force you. Things have changed because up until recently you got grants to plant native species. The grant system is still keeping a close eye on what you do and you have to fight your corner.

You have to convince the forest commission, but you know you can almost do what you want within reason.

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What is the most recent forest management plan and do you write it by yourself?

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There is one written in 2014 and it goes on to 2024. It is just a document that informs people of what is going on here because anybody can access it and read it and it informs the Forestry Commission. This time I wrote it and got others to look at it as well.

It’s quite easy.

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How does the management of the forest work together with the agenda of the school?

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I think these groups go along very happily together. The people who own the woodland are yourselves, the students, particularly now Eva is trying to link this place more with London.

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If some people would permanently live in the woodland would they interfere with your daily activities?

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Not really but, I think the specialness of woodlands is the lack of human involvement.

Although, we are managing it, we are also impacting the woodland by managing it. We try to do it carefully and sensitively.

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Is there any strategy, expertise or approach, you would recommend for providing more accommodation at Hooke?

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The structured areas where you have regular trees you could use, there’s less space to build but you could consider using the standing trees as part of your structure but again, it’s having the expertise and the knowledge - which I prefer you to have - to do the fixings to the trees without damaging the tree. Because once you start damaging the trees all sorts of diseases can set in and so on.

Can you explain your everyday routine?

I’m employed 2 days a week by the AA, I used to do 5 days a week here. And then there’s the odd extra day, when they need me to work in the week. Then there’s hours in the wood marking the timber, cutting down trees, replanting, negotiating with contractors and with students.

How many trees do you cut a week? Or per weeks?

Sometimes none at all, sometimes I have to cut down 5. I just push them over with a chainsaw and a machine. We have a wench and a tractor so we can actually send the wire out a long distance and just pull it down.

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How many contractors are you working with?

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So how I understand it we have one contractor coming into the woods, and they have the job to thin and fell, as they own big machines. Machines that mean they don’t even need to touch the tree themselves. The machine will touch the tree, grab it and chop it down.

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Would you prefer we build in a structured part of the forest or a more remote area?

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It’s obvious that the campus needs to grow, but it should be done very sensitively.

However there is the issue of human impact, which we will need to explore how to deal with.

How is thinning the forest different from felling an area of trees?

So they are 2 different processes: one, you cut down a whole area of trees 2-3 acres or 1-2 hectares, in the other, you go in and pluck out trees to encourage the growth of the ones that you leave. That’s the difference.

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And the roots as well?

No just the cutting. They have instructions of where to go in the woods and how the marking is done.

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£12 per length Saw log sell price (Approximately £70 per tonne)

ECONOMICS OF A HOOKE PARK TREE Nicole Ng and Andrew Robertson, 2020 source: Christopher Sadd, Hooke Park

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This diagram denotes the selling prices of a typical commercial cut. However, compared to the typical commercial cut, Hooke Park often woodchips the whole section of the log because there is limited demand for construction timber. There are also no streams for the commercial sale of construction quality timber to nonAA customers. Unfortunately, this means that valuable trees that have grown for 60 years would simply add up as woodchip.

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WOOD CHIPPING PROCESS AT HOOKE PARK Clara Schwarz, March 2020

HOOKE PARK’S WOOD MATERIAL FLOW arranged by Clara Schwarz

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WOODCHIP STORAGE BARN FULL

WOODCHIP STORAGE BARN NOT EMPTY

FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR, WHEN TREES ARE WOODCHIPPED

LAST DAY OF THE YEAR, WHEN TREES ARE WOODCHIPPED

images: Clara Schwarz, Hooke Park, 2020

TREE OFFCUTS Clara Schwarz

Every year, ‘dead’ trees or low value trees are turned into woodchip and the Woodchip Barn stores feedstock for the biomass boiler.

UNUSED WOOD OFFCUTS source: Woodcut by Vincent Kohler

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It can be observed that there is more woodchip produced than what is needed for the boiler house.

WOOD CHIPPING PROCESS AT HOOKE PARK Clara Schwarz, March 2020

images: Clara Schwarz, Hooke Park, 2020

FROM “DEAD/WASTE” WOOD TO WOODCHIP The structure provides long-term storage for woodchip to fuel the Biomass Boiler House.

With a storage capacity of 400cu.m, the barn enables the Hooke Park estate to process and use its own timber for renewable heat production.

BEGINNING OF THE CHIPPING SESSION

4 HOURS LATER

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HOOKE PARK’S WASTE WOOD

image: Clara Schwarz, Hooke Park, 2020

images: Clara Schwarz, Hooke Park, 2020

WOOD OFFCUTS

STANDARDISED SIZES source: Woodcut by Vincent Kohler

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In Hooke Park, there is a meticulous selection on the wood that is used to create structural and design innovation.

There could be a potential for the use of “scrap” wood for insulation, or the innate acoustic properties of wood to enhance comfort within a space. It can be observed that there is “waste” wood compiled for use for the four stoves in the campus, more wood offcuts waiting than needed.

WOOD CHIPPING PROCESS AT HOOKE PARK Clara Schwarz, March 2020

WOOD CHIPPING PROCESS AT HOOKE PARK Clara Schwarz, March 2020

WOODCHIPS FOR THE YEAR

images: Connie Lynn Tang, Hooke Park, 2020

INSTANCES OF SELF-RELIANT LIVING Sorana-Stefana Mazilu, Clara Schwarz

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This chapter looks at how the community of Hooke Park is showcasing the possibility of self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

BEEKEEPING

image: Nicole Ng, taken behind the Timber Seasoning Shelter uphill Hooke Park, 2019

BEEKEEPING

There is a bee box right behind the Timber Seasoning Shelter. Bees are responsible for the pollination of thirty percent of our food, thus it is important to recognise the vitality of bees and honey production in our ecosystem.

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Bees create their own kind of permaculture, as they have developed a system that effectively sustains itself. They store their data in the cells of the comb, and this allows them to return to flowers at the optimal time for pollen gathering. In permaculture, bee-keeping has been taken on with a more natural approach, allowing the bees to live as bees were meant to live with a minimum of beekeeping interaction. Bee-keepers will still harvest honey, but an emphasis is placed on the health of the colony above how much honey is to be taken. Bees supplement our permaculture environment by pollinating flowers.

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PLAN OF POWER SUPPLY IN HOOKE PARK drawn by Sorana-Stefana Mazilu, 2020 source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

THE HEARTH OF HOOKE PARK

This section maps the water and electricity supply of the campus of Hooke Park. All the buildings in Hooke Park are heated by a central boiler installed in 2014 as part of a Design + Make project.

The boiler is a 200kW Guntamatic biomass boiler located in the centre of the campus at an approximately equal distance between the refectory, workshop and Westminster Lodge.

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The central boiler performance has been calculated to supply in energy the full extent of the latest accommodation masterplan, which means approximately the double of the current calorific need. The boiler is thus currently over specified.

PLAN OF HEAT SUPPLY IN HOOKE PARK drawn by Clara Schwarz, 2020

source: Hooke Park - Zachary Mollica

THE BIOMASS BOILER HOUSE

The boiler is an experimental architectural structure designed and built using low-quality round-wood thinnings supplied from the forest and uses minimal processing to produce a low-embedded-carbon structure. The boiler house also contains a 35m3 chip store.

Fuel is self-supplied from the forest. Harvested and seasoned round wood is brought to site and cut into a bulk chip. The bulk chip store, like the Biomass Boiler House, is constructed from low-value timber from the forest. The system is enclosed. All the fuel is sourced from the Hooke Park woods, the entire processing is done in house, from logs to woodchips, generating a sustainable system.

Forest

Woodchip Barn

Workshop + Shed

Timber Cutting

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Logs

Woodchips

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Hooke Park Staff Woodchip Barn

Students Workshop + Shed

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The campus is expanding regularly and new extensions are added to the district heating system as and when new buildings go up.

PLAN - HEAT SUPPLY IN WESTMINSTER LODGE (NTS)

SECTION - HEAT SUPPLY IN WESTMINSTER LODGE (NTS) drawn by Clara Schwarz, 2020 source: Hooke Park

SAWDUST FROM WORKSHOP FOR COMPOST

KITCHEN GARDEN

WOOD OFFCUTS TO BE BURNED

STOVE IN WESTMINSTER LODGE COMMON ROOM

WOODCHIP IN WOODCHIP BARN FOR BIOMASS

BIOMASS BOILER HOUSE

images: Clara Schwarz, 2020, Hooke Park and AA Design + Make instagram

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MATERIAL AND ENERGY FLOWS ON HOOKE PARK CAMPUS

WOODCHIP BARN

source: Design + Make, 2016

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The structure provides long-term storage for wood chip to fuel the Biomass Boiler House. With a storage capacity of 400cunic metres, the barn will enable the Hooke Park campus to process and use its own timber for renewable heat production.

BIOMASS BOILER HOUSE source: Design + Make, 2015

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The Biomass Boiler House building contains the boiler, woodchip store and buffer tank for the district heating system that now provides heat energy to all of the Hooke Park campus.

SUNSET OVER THE WOODCHIP BARN AND SAWMILL SHELTER Sorana-Stefana Mazilu, Hooke Park, 2020

DIPLOMA 18 EXPERIENCING A FOOD COMA FROM ERWIN’S DINNER Aude-Line Dulière, outside the refectory in Hooke Park, 2020

THE HOOKE CANTEEN, CALM, BEFORE THE STORM OF HUNGRY STUDENTS image: Connie Lynn Tang, Hooke Park refectory, 2020

BREAKING BREAD Connie Lynn Tang

“In so many cultures, that idea of breaking bread together is fundamental, it is right at the root of community and that’s what it was here” says Georgie.

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The Hooke Park canteen is the fuel of the community, and the essence of the culture on campus, it is where it all started.

HAPPY CHICKEN ROAMING AT THE HOOKE KITCHEN DOORSTEP image: Aude-Line Dulière, March 2020

THE KITCHEN

The kitchen started when the AA took over Hooke Park in 2001 and Georgie was asked if she knew anybody who could cater for the visiting students.

The first ever unit to stay in the lodge was First Year students, Unit 3, then taught by Miraj Ahmed, Pierre d’Avoine and Tom Emerson.

Georgie and Charlie Corrywright have been care taking Hooke Park since it was John Makepeace Furniture College, and as Miraj Ahmed says it beautifully ”they know the site intimately”.

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Georgie was cooking for her family at the time and offered to do the job. Her only condition was that she would not handle any meat and therefore the food would be vegetarian, which was accepted by the school.

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I was very interested in supporting local communities and there was a lovely veg shop down the road in Beaminster. They farmed and ran the shop, so, all the food was freshly grown in the area.

At the time our kids were about 7-8 to 12 and we used to sit in the canteen on our own table while the students sat on their table. There was a sense of home cooking for the family and that’s how the version of the canteen started.

It was part of my philosophy and quite important for me to have food, sit together and have conversations. A moment to stop, to pause in the day, which is why the meal times were quite specific, so that everybody had a rhythm to their day.

People came together for a moment to pause in the day:

Georgie Corrywright is a herbalist and a vegetarian chef. She is a longterm resident of Hooke Park and manages its catering.

Let’s sit down, let’s have a chat, let’s have some nice food, and then you feel refreshed and you go back to it.

Georgie talks to Connie about the kitchen at Hooke Park, its history and anecdotes, as well as the place of food in community and sustainable food sourcing and selfreliance.

The text is transcribed from an interview with Georgie, conducted on 10th of June 2020 over video call.

In so many cultures, that idea of breaking bread together is fundamental. It is right at the root of community and that’s what it was here; it was all about homemade bread anybody who ever did any cooking had to be able to make homemade bread.

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Could you tell us about sharing your foraging knowledge and doing workshops with people coming to Hooke Park?

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It was when Jo who used to work exhibitions was interested in the idea of foraging and pushed for this initiative. Luke and Jo got married here and I did their wedding food with the help of an ex-student.

At the time, I was studying herbal medicine and my dissertation was titled “Could I be self-sufficient in herbal medicine?”

I set out to learn the plants in the woods.

The foraging started with the bush craft courses that used to run here.

I was whittling herb on the porch one day and got asked to do herbal first aid for their bush craft course. We also did a foraging workshop with some AA staff where we gathered and cooked the food, sat down together and ate it for lunch.

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image: Hooke Park website

Do you still get requests about foraging workshops, as you are now quite busy with your counselling work, how is the kitchen running alongside? (Georgie is a counsellor and therapist)

“I feel that Hooke Park should be, or could be, an amazing showcase for an alternative, more sustainable way of life.”

Hooke Park could be an amazing showcase for an alternative and more sustainable way of life, and to me food has to be an important part of that, what we buy, what we eat. I’m not saying you don’t ever eat meat, but we need to think about what kind of meat we eat, where we source it from and how it’s produced etc. I understand that not everybody is a vegetarian which is why I’ve always advised those here for 3-4 days to have a barbecue: so that those who want to eat meat can eat meat.

Also, a lovely quote from Miraj was: “A vegetarian table is an inclusive table.”

Everybody can sit and eat at that table, and this was proven so beautifully when one unit came where there were some Muslims, some Jews, a vegetarian and a vegan; pretty much the whole range - and this was the first time they had ever sat and eaten together as a unit. I was really proud of that! That’s important!

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How does Hooke Park source its food and how is it a showcase of sustainability?

All the vegetables, except for pepper and ginger that do not grow here, are sourced and grown within a 20 mile radius of Hooke Park, and then sold in the shop 4 miles down the road. Most of the chefs are good at using up and incorporating left over meals into dishes – I have a 24h rule, after that its chicken food! We always try to have as little food waste as possible. The chicken eat the waste, then produce the eggs which are used for cooking. Most of the bulk stuff is bought from a local food place that delivers and we use small supermarkets. The shopping is done with as much conscious awareness as possible.

How do you curate the menu for sourcing locally and cooking with seasonal produce?

We like to think that “the garden dictates what you cook”- so the chefs open the fridge and have a look at what’s inside:”ok we’ve got carrots that need using up, let’s do something with them”. I always felt that it was the job of the cook as somebody who enjoys cooking, to come up with the menu – and to get the food on the table at the right time. Part of the fun of the job is making what you feel like exploring and enjoying just being creative.

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What are the logistics, what is the team like?

We have Tia who is my main cook, Erwin, Gill and Sheralyn. They all have their specialities.

I used to cook a lot more but for the last few years I’ve been doing my counselling, so now I’m just managing it. All the staff are part time. For example Gill was always free on a Monday while Erwin was more flexible. The cooks have the option of working half day shifts or full day shifts, but generally people would do a whole day as it made more sense for them.

Could you tell us about the kitchen garden and the permaculture workshop that ran?

It would be lovely to develop this area (referring to the empty area next to the current kitchen garden) We’ve always had this vision of a community where everybody did a bit of everything and through that understood where their food comes from. I see that there’s a lot of richness to be had in a place like Hooke Park where you do architecture, but you can also do other things and have a broad approach to education.

The permaculture workshop was great, the beginnings of a communal space we can all take ownership of - the space and the environment hopefully supported and nourished by everybody. A lovely idea but often not implemented. Not everybody wants to do gardening and I understand that, you come here to do architecture. So, I don’t know how one takes that forward really.

In this lockdown period, some of the Design + Make students who are living on site have been helping in the garden and it’s amazing how much work has been achieved with just a few extra pairs of hands. It doesn’t require loads of individual time. A unit of 12 people giving 1hour a week, would be incredible!

Each person giving 1hour and you’ve got 12 man hours which is a day and a half of work in the garden. It’s massive. So, it’s about very small amounts of individual work but collectively it’s a huge. We could potentially get to a point where we supply the kitchen with home grown produce; salads, beans, peas and tomatoes for example.

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I agree that learning about what you’re eating and where it comes from makes you more aware of the realities of the food sourcing, supply and consumption.

One thing that I have noticed over the years is that, the fact of the kitchen being vegetarian has stimulated conversation about food around the table. Over the years we’ve overheard conversations and frequently they are connected to food and what’s being eaten. I’ve always been quite excited about encouraging conversations about people’s perception of what food is.

People have come to me at the end of a visit and said: ”I never knew vegetarian food could be so tasty!” That warms my heart!

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So to carry on from that, as the kitchen garden would expand there would certainly be a need for more storage.

(LEFT TO RIGHT: OMAR, TIA AND LUIS IN THE HOOKE KITCHEN image: Georgie Corrywright, April 2019

Yes, that would have to come into the equation as we’ve only got two little freezers for now. If we have a glut of runner beans, for example, what do you do with them? Storage and pantry space would need to be reconsidered. The kitchen is quite small for the number of people we had been serving.

As you’ve been here for so long and you’ve seen so many students coming and going, did you ever get them involved in the cooking?

We held an International Food Day for the Design + Make students. Two people would help me in the kitchen for the day and they would create the menu. We’ve had a Japanese day and a Mexican day.

It has been good fun, but it does take them out of their studies and conflicting interests are a bit hard to manage sometimes. Hooke Park is such a unique place, there’s so much to study here: Step out and see where you are.

Place yourself in the environment that you’re in, that’s what always felt quite important!

”Let’s sit down, have a chat, have some nice food, and then, you feel refreshed and go back to it.”

“In those days, hardly anyone went there. We had a wonderful Jury on a hot summer day with a picnic lunch created by Georgie.

I loved the food and so too did all our students. The vegetarian food that Georgie provided was something special we all looked forward to. The lunches and dinners were great moments of discussion about life and projects fuelled by excellent food.

Even the most carnivorous of our students were totally satisfied.”

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image: Diploma 18, Hooke Park refectory, 2020

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PERMACULTURE WORKSHOP 2012

source: AALog

GEESE IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN image: Clara Schwarz, Hooke Park, 2019

THE KITCHEN GARDEN

Clem Blakemore, a student back in 2012, organised a Permaculture Workshop where a group of 12 students came to Hooke Park. They fenced the garden, laid out the beds and got the seeds in the ground all in one weekend.

The Hooke Park Kitchen Kitchen Garden still exists today from this workshop and sometimes provides produce to the kitchen. It is not fully supplementing the meals due to its small scale.

The Kitchen Garden requires maintenance and is currently taken care of mainly by Georgie. There is no regular team managing the garden and she explains in the interview how a few hours of work by a small group of students makes a big difference.

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Tomatoes, peas, courgettes, and apples are some of the produce that has been grown in the past.

KITCHEN GARDEN 2014

source: AALOG

Permaculture design also looks beyond the food production, addressing issues such as household and farm energy, habitation, structures, and waste management (there need be no waste on a farm!)

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Permaculture is a design system that sprang up during the 1970 oil crisis, as a reaction to food insecurity and the desire to be self-reliant. Combining attitude and practical application, it encompasses anything from recycling, reusing and regenerating, to simply observing.

SURVEY OF KITCHEN GARDEN - NTS

surveyed and drawn by Shreya Kochatta, 2019

Only a third of the garden gets optimum sunlight for growth. Plants grown include wild spinach, beans, strawberries, leaks, carrots, cabbage, raspberries and tomatoes in the polytunnel.

GARDEN WORKLOAD: Transferring compost (early summer) - 10h total Weeding - 1h (everyday throughout the year) Seeding - 12h / week (April to June summer vegetables) Harvesting - 4h / week (August to November)

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The work is no more than 2h a week per student and only 5 students are required in the peak season.

FORAGING IN HOOKE PARK

“Could I be self-sufficient in herbal medicine?” was the topic of Georgie’s dissertation where she mapped the plants in the woods when studying herbal medicine.

She expanded on the food aspect of foraging when the bush-craft courses ran in Hooke Park. She explained herbal first aid to the students and learned more skills from their exchange.

Staff from the AA also did a foraging workshop in Hooke Park. They gathered in the morning and then together cooked and sat down to share lunch.

In Hooke Park some of the plants you can forage are:

FORAGING IN HOOKE PARK

May 2012 and 2016

images : Sue Barr, AALog

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Wild Garlic, Hedgehog mushroom, Elderflower, Berries, Nettle, Mint, Sorrel, Watercress.

Low maintenance fruits trees: harvest calendar

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June HARVEST CALENDAR OF LOW MAINTENANCE FRUIT TREES drawn by Alice Nobel, London, 2019 Volunteer’s maintenance

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MAINTENANCE REQUIRED FOR ORCHARD drawn by Alice Nobel, London, 2019

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POTENTIAL FOR ORCHARD

In Term 1, Alice, Clara and Connie researched the potential of setting up an orchard in Hooke Park for the production of fruit snacks. Fruit trees such as apple trees are low maintenance trees that can be a good alternative to a vegetable garden which can be labour intensive. Other than the harvesting season, orchards require minimum maintenance while in return providing produce.

Common pests of fruit trees are deer (deer browsing), squirrels and birds (cherries) while common diseases are brown rot and apple scab. Orchards enhance habitat supply to natural enemies that help in disease and pest control and help for fruit production and pollination.

SUN

Most fruit trees require generally 6-8 hours of sunlight for good growth and fruit ripening and no trees should shade the orchard.

SOIL

Must be well drained, uncompacted and have a pH value of 6 (slightly acidic).

FROST

Avoiding frost pockets is important. Frost pockets are areas where cold air can’t escape (usually at the bottom of a slope).

WATER

The site must have easy access to a water point.

One of the few challenges of setting up and maintaining an orchard in Hooke Park could be the abundance of fruits in a short period.

For this reason, fruit picking, distribution, storing and processing (eg. apple sauce, apple juice, dried apples, apple jam) have to be carefully planned and thought out when setting up a local orchard. The team has visited other community orchards for reference such as Tinker’s Bubble’s community woodland, which is around 17 miles or a 40 minute drive away from Hooke Park, and village orchards such as the Wytham Community Orchard in Oxfordshire.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ORCHARD:

what I am most passionate about is the quality of the ingredients and how it affects us, how it affects the planet. It can feel all about the cost of it and that’s kind of where it ends.

About vegetarian food in Hooke Park

Tia Corrywright is a vegetarian chef and long-term resident of Hooke Park.

Tia talks to Connie about the value of ingredients and food, about vegetarian cooking and her journey at the Hooke Park kitchen. She also shares her food journey and recipes on her blog. (@eatthrivegrow_by_tia)

The text is transcribed from an interview with Tia, conducted on 10th of June 2020 over video call.

TCW

Cooking is something that I love to do and it is definitely my creative side - I think that everyone has something that they are creative with, like, arts or woodwork and definitely the kitchen is my creative space.

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What has it been like cooking for Hooke Park?

TCW

It is interesting as the Hooke Park kitchen has gone through quite a lot. It has definitely been a journey because there was a point when I was absolutely in love with working here, it was sort of the best thing in the world.

And then recently it felt like it has been a bit sidelined for me as well. I guess it is because, as I’ve become more passionate about the value of the food and where we’re buying it from and everything it involves, it feels like that hasn’t been represented by the AA for example. So I guess I’ve lost a little bit of interest in it as well, as

image: Eat Thrive Grow by Tia, 2020, instagram @eatthrivegrow_by_tia

The philosophy has always been that you don’t have to be vegetarian. You don’t have to follow any particular rule but everyone can make an effort. I always say that even having a meat free meal twice a week makes a difference. I think it’s a shame that lots of people seem to promote this all-or-nothing mindset where you have to become vegan in order to do anything; no you don’t, you can make those small steps as we need everybody making small changes, which is much more doable, it’s going to have more of a positive change than a few people doing everything. We, with Georgie and Charlie, have always had this approach where we’re not forcing anyone to stop eating meat when they’re here, but for a week of your life, it really is possible to try.

It is changing, thankfully. But I think there is also this assumption that you have to deny yourself of nice food if you’re a vegetarian.

“What? You can still eat lasagna?” - yes, you can eat lasagna! You can still eat cake too!

That’s kind of why I do my food page really (referring to her food blog) to try and show people that you can still enjoy vegetarian food. I try to think of recipes that are quite easy and inspiring to make as I think that can be off-putting, when people don’t know how to cook like lentils, for example, they just don’t even bother trying. It’s good to make people think : “I could do that! It is nice! My family will like it!”

I also as much as I can let the garden dictate what I cook as it’s quite incredible to look at dishes sometimes and realise: “Wow! It all came from my garden!”

Bread is very symbolic isn’t it? All across the world you kind of break bread and share it.

And I think bread is quite a pivotal part of the table. And, a lot of the students have come in and asked: ”How do you make the bread?

Do you make it here?” - And yes we do!

That’s always really nice to hear. This is the thing, food is different everywhere you go, but it’s something that everybody enjoys.

Like Georgie was saying, having a table where everyone can sit and enjoy, it is so special because it’s quite rare. That is kind of one of the biggest things that our kitchen certainly has been in the past. And so, sharing recipes sharing is always nice.

RECIPES Tia Corrywright

“I wanted to showcase meals that could be entirely grown and produced either here in the forest, or nearby. A meal that is plastic-free as well as being ethically made and nourishing.

We buy our flour in bulk from UK based family run millers and it arrives in paper sacks. The pastry cases are made with 100% wholemeal flour.

Our geese and chickens lay us the most beautiful eggs, but as always, when buying eggs, we make sure to buy only from free range happy hens.

These could be easily made dairy free using coconut butter or oil in the pastry, and leaving out the cheese in the filling, however, I am happy to support local ethical farms and farmers where livestock welfare is paramount.

It’s wonderful to think of the ways in which we can truly begin to adapt our eating habits to be much more self-sufficient and mindful. It’s easy to forget how many miles our foods have travelled to get to our plates, and the cost and use of resources to enable us to eat certain favourite and exotic foods every day.” (about Quiche recipe on page 537)

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Potatoes, onions, beans, spinach and herbs are all easy crops to grow here in the U.K.

Multiseed Bread 1lb flour 1tsp salt 1tsp sugar/molasses 1/2 pt warm water 1tbsp yeast 1tbsp oil 2tbsp mixed seeds

Combine sugar with water to dissolve Add yeast. leave until frothy Add oil Add to dry ingredients to form soft dough Leave aside for 30 mins - 1hour Knead to shape Leave until double in size

image: Tia Corrywright, 2020

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Bake 35 minutes Gas 6/ 200 oC

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Quiche and Potato Salad Quiche:

Preheat oven to Gas 5/ 200 oC

In bowl combine 200g floor & 100g butter Using fingertips rub together to form fine crumbs Add cold water little at a time to create a soft pastry dough Roll onto floured surface and line tart tin Line with baking parchment and fill with baking beans Bake 15 mins - remove beans then bake again 5 mins

Filling:

Whisk eggs with a little milk (oat) then pour into cases Sprinkle with sauteed ingredients (spinach, red onion, garlic) You can also add some grated cheese at this point if you like Crack black pepper on top Bake for 20 mins until golden and firm

Leave for 5-10mins after cooking before you serve

Potato Salad: Lightly boil potatoes + add dressing + chopped herbs to taste (Chives, Coriander, Parsley, Spring onions)

200ml olive oil

2tbsp mayonnaise

50ml balsamic vinegar

2tsp mustard

1tbsp honey

50ml lemon juice

image: Tia Corrywright, 2020

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Dressing : whisk together ingredients

Elderflower Shortbread 2tbsp fresh elderflowers 100g butter/ margarine/ coconut oil 50g sugar 150g flour Preheat oven to 180 oC/ Gas 4 Remove flowers from stems Place in large bowl, set aside Remove as much stalk as possible Cut butter into pieces Place in bowl with other ingredients Use fingers to rub together to look like breadcrumbs Add elderflowers Push crumb mix down into a dough Press into greased baking tin

TIA AND HER DAUGHTER ELDERFLOWER PICKING images: Tia Corrywright, 2020

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Bake 20 mins

HAPPY ROAMING CHICKEN HAS NOW REACHED THE SOUTH STUDENT LODGE FIREPLACE image: Diploma 18, Hooke Park, 2020

END OF TERM JURY LUNCH IN HOOKE PARK image: Connie Lynn Tang, December 2019

LUNCH IN THE FOREST

During Term 1, the unit was investigating types of settlements and practices of self-sufficiency for the construction of a temporary shelter. Each team was responsible for researching specific methods related to self-sufficiency such as heating for example. A team composed of Alice, Clara and Sorana were doing research and experimentation related to the kitchen and bath units and so organised two barbecues in the forest as a way to test a brick oven prototype.

The second barbecue was hosted a the end of term Jury lunch for our guest critics which included Juliet Haysom, Mark Morris, Zachary Mollica, Charlie Corrywright, Christopher Sadd and Sophie Boone.

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Stuffed peppers and apple crumble were on the menu and everyone had lunch in the “cathedral of trees� with a long table and seats specially set up for the occasion.

BARBECUE IN THE FOREST

images: Aude-Line Dulière and Connie Lynn Tang, Hooke Park, December 2019

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previous image on page 546-547:

END OF TERM LUNCH SETTING IN THE “CATHEDRAL OF TREES” OF HOOKE PARK Diploma 18, December 2019 previous three images:

DORSET COUNTRYSIDE Lydia Liu, 2019

DORSET AT LARGE Ele Mun

Often left aside in discourses about Hooke Park is its wider self - Dorset.

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Diploma 18 has spent a good part of the ‘pre-covid-19’ academic year on a pilgrimage in search of an ecosystem of knowledge that lies hidden through the south-western landscape.

“Hooke, for me, it needs to balance this condition between being this ‘hyper-local’ environment (ie. all that is relevant to Hooke within the kind of boundaries of the forest) ... and the ‘regular-local’.

The vernacular of Dorset hasn’t massively influenced the development of Hooke Park. ” Zachary Mollica, Warden of Hooke Park

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BENDING THE RULES at Hooke Park

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BENDING THE RULES AT HOOKE PARK. image: Cheyne, “Bridport Times March 2020.”

“ ...there is no one to be seen.

Around me sit contorted timber buildings, each one pitched at improbable angles.

Rain pounds their roofs and wind tugs at their frames but these unworldly structures remain resolute...”

Jo Denbury writes about his arrival at Hooke Park. The AA’s woodland campus was featured in the March Issue of Bridport Times, distributed free-of-charge both in print and digitally at ‘bridporttimes.co.uk/digital-edition’.

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For the magazine’s readers, this becomes the first point of contact with Hooke Park ; it is worth noting some of the featured writer’s qualitative descriptions.

HOOKE PARK Words Jo Denbury Photography Katharine Davies

I

am stood in a wood, not far from Beaminster.

The rain is horizontal, the puddles are deep and bar the occasional buffeted bird, there is no one to be seen. Around me sit contorted timber buildings, each one pitched at improbable angles. Rain pounds their roofs and wind tugs at their frames but these unworldly structures remain resolute, rooted and capable in the face of the elements.

I am at the Architectural Association School of Architecture’s (AA) Hooke Park campus and have arranged to meet its Warden, Zachary Mollica. I am unsure which of the buildings he might be in, so I wander into the largest, an impressive arrangement of engineered triangles. >

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This striking structure, known as the Big Shed, is a multi-faceted workshop built predominantly using larch sourced from the woodland in which it stands. Designed in 2011 by students of the school’s Design + Make programme with the support of then tutor Piers Taylor and programme head, Martin Self, the Big Shed is a joyous, cathedral-like space that perfectly accommodates the Park’s assembly and prototyping activities.

Today, I find Martin and a fellow teacher, Jack Draper, poised around a dome of interlaced wood. I watch as they clamp sections together and with each gentle tightening of a screw, the wood slowly bending to their will. I have clearly arrived at a critical moment in this particular project’s proceedings and despite my mere presence threatening its success I am nodded in the direction of Zachary.

Zachary Mollica, is a Canadian architect and maker and now Warden of the AA’s Hooke Park campus. He first arrived as a student in 2014 and never left. People come to study and teach at Hooke Park from all over the world. Most of them have left traditional architecture practices, and the associated drudgery of CAD drawings and lengthy timescales, to embrace the possibilities of working and experimenting with wood to develop new ways of building.

‘The purpose of this place is to enable design through the means of making so as not to separate the two activities,’ explains Zachary. ‘It allows the students to become stronger designers because they have a real conversation with the material that is a productive and physical experience.’ A haven for adventures in architecture, you might say.

Architectural Association director Eva Franch i Gilabert, describes Hooke Park as ‘a unique place in the world of architecture education; it provides state of the art facilities for experimentation in timber construction and 350 acres of forest to teach and learn about nature, the world, and ourselves. It complements the AA’s London campus.’

Hooke Park was acquired by the Forestry Commission in 1949. At a time of faltering manufacturing output, UK furniture production remained buoyant and saw the Commission plant large numbers of Norwegian spruce, beech and oak.

The eventual allure of imported mass production wooden furniture took hold and by 1982 the Forestry Commission were looking to selling the land. The visionary furniture maker John Makepeace, who, 6 years prior, had set up The School for Craftsmen in Wood at 50 | Bridport Times | March 2020

images: Cheyne, “Bridport Times March 2020.”

nearby Parnham House, purchased Hooke Park under the banner of The Parnham Trust. It was around this time that current Head Forester, Chris Sadd, joined as an apprentice, learning and watching as Hooke Park evolved from woodland to campus.

As custodian of the woods, it is Chris’ job to ensure that the trees of Hooke Park continue to thrive as a living educational resource. Forest management is a fine balance of give and take, planting and felling in necessary measure. Felled timber must be treated before being passed over to the architects. Then there is clearing to be done, coppicing and planting. ‘Forestry is long-term,’ explains Chris. ‘A tree can take a lifetime to mature and markets and preferences for certain timbers can change in that time. For example, a lot of beech trees were planted as they were popular for furniture but in fact they are not so useful for architecture.’

‘The other challenge here is a wet wood,’ explains Chris. ‘So we have a problem with stability. We try to identify the areas of instability and make an effort to plant stronger broadleaf trees in their place.’ Bio-diversity is also something close to his heart. ‘By planning the clearing of trees in parts of the park we can maintain, for example, the bird species. We make it possible for a species to move nearby and therefore not disrupt their habitat too much by forcing them to travel long distances to a new home.’

A number of members of staff — Zachary among them— live on site and there is also a boarding house for visiting students. Some will come to join the 12/16-month postgraduate Design + Make programme, while others attend shorter courses as modules within their London-based AA studies.

‘When it comes to designing, making and using your hands, timber is an exceptional material because it is so approachable and non-toxic,’ explains Zachary.

‘More importantly, in the face of the ‘Architects Declare’ and ‘Construction Declare’ climate change movements, timber needs to become the future of architecture. Not to mean that to build sustainably we need to get rid of every other material. But in a country such as this, with a long tradition of timber which it has moved away from, we need it more.’ He continues. ‘This school is a microcosm, where we can explore wood from forestry to finished product. It is also a place to discover how supplies of wood will need to change to suit the demands of architecture. It needs to change at the forest end. Here, working with Chris, we can understand the supply chain because the architecture we build here completes the circle, from forest to built form.’ > bridporttimes.co.uk | 51

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in 2010 and then director of Hooke Park. Now free of the framework dome I found him attached to on my arrival, Martin is able to join us, ‘Globally it is a unique course working intimately with wood,’ he explains, ‘The aim is to understand its character, quality and implications. To understand the energy that goes into using wood. Here, we think very carefully about architecture that respects the place and materials and about continuing the legacy John Makepeace began. An architecture school with this mix of resources teaches a lot of lessons.’

As I walk around I can’t help but think, is this the future? Building and construction play a major role in our climate breakdown, accounting for nearly 40% of our energy-related CO2 emissions alone. Martin, Zachary, Chris and the highly skilled team here at Hooke Park are working hard to inspire and educate a bold new generation of the world’s architects. Seeing the students at work, joining the dots between digital design and physical form, and all the while striving to steward the very ground that provides their material, is something to behold. For many of us, working with nature is straightforward common sense. It is a wonderful thing to imagine a global industry waking up to the possibilities, and the ideas generating from this fascinating Dorset woodland taking root.

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Carolina de Menezes is a Brazilian student attending Hooke Park on the 12-month MSc course. ‘I was interested in forestry and wanted to explore something that wasn’t just industrial design. I visited last year and felt this was the place where I should be, although it was mid-winter at the time,’ she laughs as we look at today’s weather. ‘There is a big component to the course which is about being among the trees and having a chance to be outdoors. The stuff that you learn from Chris about the seasons, how it affects the trees and ultimately the timber, makes it very real. It makes you understand the material, where it comes from and how special it is.

‘My previous work experience involved computer programming,’ she continues, ‘and so was very computer focused. I worked on design for developments and finding solutions to local problems. But now that I have come here I don’t think I am ready to work in the city.

Here we have huge workshops, and space, it affects how you design.’ Then she nods towards something lurking behind a wooden screen. ‘We also have a robot.’

The robotic arm arrived in 2014 and Zachary describes it as being a ‘neutral tool’. At the end of its single, long arm you can attach any tool you might need.

He enthuses: ‘so this means there is no longer the need to work with square corners and flat surfaces which is what’s usual when working with wood. Instead this robot performs like a surgeon which completely changes how you can work with wood — such as using the ‘forks’ in a tree as part of your structure.’

Much of this exciting work was initiated by Martin Self, founder of the Design + Make programme launched

HOOKE PARK Words Jo Denbury Photography Katharine Davies

I

am stood in a wood, not far from Beaminster.

The rain is horizontal, the puddles are deep and bar the occasional buffeted bird, there is no one to be seen. Around me sit contorted timber buildings, each one pitched at improbable angles. Rain pounds their roofs and wind tugs at their frames but these unworldly structures remain resolute, rooted and capable in the face of the elements.

I am at the Architectural Association School of Architecture’s (AA) Hooke Park campus and have arranged to meet its Warden, Zachary Mollica. I am unsure which of the buildings he might be in, so I wander into the largest, an impressive arrangement of engineered triangles. >

“ I am unsure which of the buildings he might be in, so I wander into the largest, an impressive arrangement of engineered triangles.”

“ ... the Big Shed is a joyous, cathedral-like space...”

48 | Bridport Times | March 2020

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This striking structure, known as the Big Shed, is a multi-faceted workshop built predominantly using larch sourced from the woodland in which it stands. Designed in 2011 by students of the school’s Design + Make programme with the support of then tutor Piers Taylor and programme head, Martin Self, the Big Shed is a joyous, cathedral-like space that perfectly accommodates the Park’s assembly and prototyping activities.

Today, I find Martin and a fellow teacher, Jack Draper, poised around a dome of interlaced wood. I watch as they clamp sections together and with each gentle tightening of a screw, the wood slowly bending to their will. I have clearly arrived at a critical moment in this particular project’s proceedings and despite my mere presence threatening its success I am nodded in the direction of Zachary.

Zachary Mollica, is a Canadian architect and maker and now Warden of the AA’s Hooke Park campus. He first arrived as a student in 2014 and never left. People come to study and teach at Hooke Park from all over the world. Most of them have left traditional architecture practices, and the associated drudgery of CAD drawings and lengthy timescales, to embrace the possibilities of working and experimenting with wood to develop new ways of building.

‘The purpose of this place is to enable design through the means of making so as not to separate the two activities,’ explains Zachary. ‘It allows the students to become stronger designers because they have a real conversation with the material that is a productive and physical experience.’ A haven for adventures in architecture, you might say.

Architectural Association director Eva Franch i Gilabert, describes Hooke Park as ‘a unique place in the world of architecture education; it provides state of the art facilities for experimentation in timber construction and 350 acres of forest to teach and learn about nature, the world, and ourselves. It complements the AA’s London campus.’

Hooke Park was acquired by the Forestry Commission in 1949. At a time of faltering manufacturing output, UK furniture production remained buoyant and saw the Commission plant large numbers of Norwegian spruce, beech and oak.

The eventual allure of imported mass production wooden furniture took hold and by 1982 the Forestry Commission were looking to selling the land. The visionary furniture maker John Makepeace, who, 6 years prior, had set up The School for Craftsmen in Wood at

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nearby Parnham House, purchased Hooke Park under the banner of The Parnham Trust. It was around this time that current Head Forester, Chris Sadd, joined as an apprentice, learning and watching as Hooke Park evolved from woodland to campus.

As custodian of the woods, it is Chris’ job to ensure that the trees of Hooke Park continue to thrive as a living educational resource. Forest management is a fine balance of give and take, planting and felling in necessary measure. Felled timber must be treated before being passed over to the architects. Then there is clearing to be done, coppicing and planting. ‘Forestry is long-term,’ explains Chris. ‘A tree can take a lifetime to mature and markets and preferences for certain timbers can change in that time. For example, a lot of beech trees were planted as they were popular for furniture but in fact they are not so useful for architecture.’

‘The other challenge here is a wet wood,’ explains Chris. ‘So we have a problem with stability. We try to identify the areas of instability and make an effort to plant stronger broadleaf trees in their place.’ Bio-diversity is also something close to his heart. ‘By planning the clearing of trees in parts of the park we can maintain, for example, the bird species. We make it possible for a species to move nearby and therefore not disrupt their habitat too much by forcing them to travel long distances to a new home.’

A number of members of staff — Zachary among them— live on site and there is also a boarding house for visiting students. Some will come to join the 12/16-month postgraduate Design + Make programme, while others attend shorter courses as modules within their London-based AA studies.

‘When it comes to designing, making and using your hands, timber is an exceptional material because it is so approachable and non-toxic,’ explains Zachary.

‘More importantly, in the face of the ‘Architects Declare’ and ‘Construction Declare’ climate change movements, timber needs to become the future of architecture. Not to mean that to build sustainably we need to get rid of every other material. But in a country such as this, with a long tradition of timber which it has moved away from, we need it more.’ He continues. ‘This school is a microcosm, where we can explore wood from forestry to finished product. It is also a place to discover how supplies of wood will need to change to suit the demands of architecture. It needs to change at the forest end. Here, working with Chris, we can understand the supply chain because the architecture we build here completes the circle, from forest to built form.’ >

“ ... with each gentle tightening of a screw, the wood slowly bending to their will.”

images: Cheyne, “Bridport Times March 2020.”

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“ A haven for adventures in architecture, you might say.”

“ As I walk around I can’t help but think, is this the future?”

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“ It is a wonderful thing to imagine a global industry waking up to the possibilities, and the ideas generating from this fascinating Dorset woodland taking root.”

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in 2010 and then director of Hooke Park. Now free of the framework dome I found him attached to on my arrival, Martin is able to join us, ‘Globally it is a unique course working intimately with wood,’ he explains, ‘The aim is to understand its character, quality and implications. To understand the energy that goes into using wood. Here, we think very carefully about architecture that respects the place and materials and about continuing the legacy John Makepeace began. An architecture school with this mix of resources teaches a lot of lessons.’

As I walk around I can’t help but think, is this the future? Building and construction play a major role in our climate breakdown, accounting for nearly 40% of our energy-related CO2 emissions alone. Martin, Zachary, Chris and the highly skilled team here at Hooke Park are working hard to inspire and educate a bold new generation of the world’s architects. Seeing the students at work, joining the dots between digital design and physical form, and all the while striving to steward the very ground that provides their material, is something to behold. For many of us, working with nature is straightforward common sense. It is a wonderful thing to imagine a global industry waking up to the possibilities, and the ideas generating from this fascinating Dorset woodland taking root.

The next open day at Hooke Park will be May 2 2020, for more details please visit the Hooke Park website hookepark.aaschool.ac.uk @hookepark

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Carolina de Menezes is a Brazilian student attending Hooke Park on the 12-month MSc course. ‘I was interested in forestry and wanted to explore something that wasn’t just industrial design. I visited last year and felt this was the place where I should be, although it was mid-winter at the time,’ she laughs as we look at today’s weather. ‘There is a big component to the course which is about being among the trees and having a chance to be outdoors. The stuff that you learn from Chris about the seasons, how it affects the trees and ultimately the timber, makes it very real. It makes you understand the material, where it comes from and how special it is.

‘My previous work experience involved computer programming,’ she continues, ‘and so was very computer focused. I worked on design for developments and finding solutions to local problems. But now that I have come here I don’t think I am ready to work in the city.

Here we have huge workshops, and space, it affects how you design.’ Then she nods towards something lurking behind a wooden screen. ‘We also have a robot.’

The robotic arm arrived in 2014 and Zachary describes it as being a ‘neutral tool’. At the end of its single, long arm you can attach any tool you might need.

He enthuses: ‘so this means there is no longer the need to work with square corners and flat surfaces which is what’s usual when working with wood. Instead this robot performs like a surgeon which completely changes how you can work with wood — such as using the ‘forks’ in a tree as part of your structure.’

Much of this exciting work was initiated by Martin Self, founder of the Design + Make programme launched

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Reclamation Yards Reclamation near Hooke Yards Park First Collaborating

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Jurassic Reclamation

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Glastonbury Reclamation

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Wells Reclamation

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South West Reclamation

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Browns Antiques & Reclamation

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Tobys Reclamation

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Dorset Reclamation

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Frome Reclamation

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CRAFT-BASED COURSES AROUND Hooke Park Edwards and Eve Cob Building Kate Edwards and Charlotte Eve are professional cob and straw bale builders, material consultants and experienced teachers. They run a 1-day cob oven course as well as a 4-day complete cob building course. Their aim is to empower as many people as possible to build their own affordable and sustainable home from the earth; and educate as many people as possible about the benefits of cob and earth building.

Website: http://www.cobcourses.com/

Contact: Kate Edwards 01297 444275 sheepie32@hotmail.com Address: Newcastle Cottage, Woodhouse Lane, Uplyme, Lyme Regis, DT7 3SX.

Greenwood Workshop Based in a 40-acre woodland in Purbeck, Toby teaches green woodworking courses using a pole lathe, shave horse and hand tools.

The timber is extracted by horse, and is also used to produce logs and charcoal.

Website: http://www.greenwoodworkshop.co.uk/

Toby Hoad 07984 488894 toby@greenwoodworkshop.co.uk

Address: outside Corfe Castle, in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset BH20.

Other Crafts and Craftsmen Zach Watts Master Thatcher

http://dorsetmasterthatcher.co.uk/myservices.html

Robert Hurford Chariot Maker

http://www.chariotmaker.co.uk/workshop2. htm

More Organisations Dorset Coppice Group established in 1999 by a number of Dorset woodsmen who came together to form a local group in order to promote their products and services around their passion for woodland crafts. Their members range from charcoal burners to bushcrafters, wildlife artists to woodturners, toddlers to woodland veterans, including Toby Hoad from Greenwood Workshop. http://dorsetcoppicegroup.co.uk/

A directory of members: http://dorsetcoppicegroup.co.uk/map/

Common Ground - founded in 1983 by Sue Clifford, Angela King and the writer Roger Deakin to seek imaginative ways to engage people with their local environment, Common Ground has engaged in projects with Hooke Park to build the Kingcombe boardwalk, as well as with locals to create parish maps to celebrate local distinctiveness of rural villages in Dorset.

top images: Edwards and Eve Cob Building bottom images: Greenwood Workshop

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https://www.commonground.org.uk/

DIPLOMA 18’S DORSET ROUTE MAP Ele Mun, 2020

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In the following pages are some of the many organisations, people and places operating in and around Dorset. Though seemingly arbitrarily selected, these are key players that have, in one way or another, been influential in Diploma 18’s many visions for Hooke Park.

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HOOKE PARK’S IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURS Ele Mun, 2020

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5 minutes down the road, Shreya invites the children of Wren’s Nursery, as well as Hooke Park’s other immediate neighbours on an excursion into Hooke Park’s island.

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20 minutes south, Ele tries to remember the names and stories of the many roof tiles from Jurassic Reclamation while loading samples too heavy for anyone’s good.

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35 minutes north-east, Alice and Sorana discuss strategies for waste management at Hanson’s Concrete Plant in Yeovil with its plant manager.

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Five Minutes down the Road, Hooke Park’s Immediate Neighbours

image: Ele Mun, taken on the way to Hooke Park, December 2019

For a student arriving from London, one’s experience in Hooke Park can many a time be a bit introverted. You board a train in Waterloo Station and arrive at Crewkerne to be greeted by a cab driver. Though the sight of the horizon is a nice exhalation, there is not much to be seen on the 30-minute ride. Your week in Hooke Park is spent within the boundaries of Hooke Park, bar perhaps one or two trips to pubs slightly further away.

What goes on in the small village of Hooke, 5 minutes away from Hooke Park?

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“There are people five minutes down the road who still have no idea that we’re here, where as there’s people across the world that make a pilgrimage to come to see Hooke Park,” Zac tells us in an interview.

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The school seems to organise a lot of field trips and outdoor activities. What value do you see in outdoor learning?

Well, it relates back to our ethos. So, I look after 2-4-year olds as part of the wren’s nursery and we believe that the outdoors and education, cannot exist without each-other.

The outdoors is where we get most from them.

Our education or lessons, I suppose is also partly guided by the children and what their interest lies in. The outdoors also I suppose allow for self-guided learning. It is where adults stand back and children, they get the freedom to make decisions and learn from it.

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Amy Evans is the Nursery Manager and has worked at Wren’s Nursery since 2003.

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Amy talks to Shreya about the importance of outdoor learning, issues of health and safety as well as the possibility of Hooke Park’s island as an extension of the nursery.

The text is transcribed from an interview over the phone conducted on the 12th of May 2020.

What kind of places do you usually take the children?

Well we have used a range of spaces. These includes mud flurries where we organize mud run, plain fields, water bodies – a large pond, we have a pine area, a large maze and even couple of small woodlands.

Yeah, I think the large woodland could be a great addition to the field trips.

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What is the health and safety procedure you follow for these trips?

We have to risk assess every activity we undertake for the children. We do teach the students what to do, what not do and what are the consequences of not following our instructions.

For example; walking near a pond and we tell them what to do if they fell in, what will happen or like how to climb a tree, till where etc. And also, it is important to give them a chance to manage themselves and for them to become aware of the dangers and sort of crossing boundaries, how much they can explore.

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What are absolute no-go zones for you in term of landscapes or spaces you would avoid or be vary of?

So, running water, we do go there but I suppose a boundary is must. Electrical fencing, we need to be careful in areas where there are some plantations, sort of ask the children to walk around the borders.

Livestock is also something we are careful about. Children tend to learn to be careful.

The other risk in a woodland is falling trees.

Especially, when it is windy.

Wren’s Nursery

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WREN’S NURSERY : PROXIMITY TO HOOKE PARK’S ISLAND

image: Ele Mun, Jurassic Reclamation, Feb 2020

20 Minutes South, Jurassic Reclamation

Prior to establishing the reclamation yard, Neil had been working as a roofer in Dorset for a bit over 25 years. His wealth of knowledge on roofing had been invaluable to Ele’s project.

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“... there’s a lot of people with quirky tastes around here,” Neil Forte says when asked about the many unusual garden decoratives that flank the entrance of Jurassic Reclamation, the closest material reseller from Hooke Park.

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We have a wide range - you never know what the next person who in is going to want. It could be roof tiles, the obvious slates. Our garden decoratives seem to sell well here where we are, there’s a lot of people with quirky tastes around here. We don’t sell roofing or building materials every day so we have to do this. Someone buys a new house and they don’t like what is in the garden, I go in and buy a job lot I prefer to do it that way - the same can be said for the building materials as well.

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So you’ve mostly had to dismantle and bring in these materials by yourselves ?

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Yes but no - I operate the yard myself for the most part so I haven’t actually got the time driving around the world picking up materials. I can’t drive from here to Leicester to get two things then drive all the way back.

We have so many ways of getting in contact with people who want to get rid of their stuff - might just be one thing, a bench up to a yard of materials. Not often exciting stuff but its good to put them back into re-use.

Witnessing first hand the volume of materials that go to waste in a span of over 25 years working as a roofer, Neil Forte had established Jurassic Reclamation in 2018.

Neil brings us around the yard in Bridport, 20 minutes away from Hooke Park and talks about how it operates.

There’s a beautiful pot that we’ve just got in last week, it’s broken and most people would just chuck. Somebody else like me sees it and it’s got like another life if that makes sense.

Could last for another 10 to 20 years, you never know.

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And how do you generally tell if something is worth saving ?

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The more I hate it, the more I would ask myself what use is that going to be, the better it is - so the more I hate it the better. I buy some of my stuff from people passing by on the way to the recycling centre, which is that building right over there.

The text is transcribed from two interviews with Neil, conducted on 4th of February and 5th of March 2020 at the yard.

image: Ele Mun, Jurassic Reclamation, Feb 2020

The yard seems to take in a huge variety of materials - these garden fixtures are quite unusual.

Some materials we don’t even pay for we’re doing them a favour by getting rid of it responsibly. We might just treat them to a round of drinks - basically rewarding them for not land-filling. It’s interesting, you just never know what is going to come through the door, ever. I don’t get up and start planning what I’m going to buy on any particular day.

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Do you do any of the dismantling yourselves?

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No, we don’t do them ourselves. We get most of our building materials in from smaller builders. The smaller building companies, whether they’re being selfish or not, they know they can get a reward from their

waste products. The bigger companies are a nightmare because it’s all about money - they don’t care. They just chuck them in the skip or they’re crushed on site. It’s cheaper and quicker for them to do that than to hold onto them, which is a bit of a shame.

There were a lot of roofs around the country that were incomplete because you couldn’t get the tiles - I was a contract manager for a very large roofing company at the time. We had to wait 16 weeks for the tiles.

I’m in close contact with a big roofing and building company - you would think that I get a lot of materials out of them, but I don’t. They’ve got an owner, three directors, contract managers and other employees they’re huge.

It’s usually the one or two man vans for me.

They don’t have a store, they can’t keep them for very long and if I buy it off of them its an extra profit on the job.

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Are there any materials here in the yard that you would classify as dead stock? I imagine some of the roof tiles in particular have been sitting here for quite a while.

Why have them crushed and buy a new one, wasting resource when so many of them are available ?

They were very sellable around three years ago. Something happened with some of the main tile manufacturers. They all got massively behind, and then the reclaimed concrete tiles became massively desirable.

I’m not so sure myself - there was a quiet time, and then all of a sudden it picked up and they just couldn’t keep up with the demand. The more behind they got (referring to Redland and Marley), what happened was that the smaller companies got busy and they as well sold all of their current stocks.

The problem then was this : any new roof tile we could get our hands on after were ‘too new’, they were very soft.

Feel the weight of that one alone - 244 of these make up a tonne so to store and to move them about is expensive, it’s labour intensive.

If you have a listed building - it’s not that common with these because it’s our newest tile (it was produced in the 60s), or at least I haven’t come across one yet, but to the right person they would be very desirable. These tiles would probably go on for another 70100 years, and yet hundred of thousands of them are destroyed regularly - they’re simply not desirable because of the way they look as well.

What happened to the manufacturers then ?

Why were they so behind on production ?

I was laying them and they were cracking and breaking, even from loading and unloading.

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And so suddenly everyone was looking for reclaimed roof tiles ?

Yes, there was a massive uplift then, it’s died down a bit now so they’re not as valuable.

Most people won’t keep stuff like this (referring to the Redland Deltas), its value is minimal now and they take up a lot space in the yard. This batch came in from a job in Charmouth, eight miles that way (pointing West).

He didn’t want to see them go away normally you would have to pay to get rid of them at the skip. What you call clean rubble, its is about £250 for a six or eight-yard skip. * The roof tile shortage was, as confirmed by Barry from John James Roofing and later Neil as well, caused by a fire at one of Marley’s production plants.

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I did buy a load of roof tiles the other day, not particularly nice ones. The cost is a lot more for them to get them to the ground carefully and then to load and have them brought in but he just said that he didn’t want to see them wasted. They’re very good concrete tiles and he just said ‘I don’t want to see them wasted.’ Somebody will want them somewhere, it’s up to me to find that connection.

I’ve just seen 30,000 units of a roof tile (Redland Stonewold) quite similar to these from one job go into the skip. It’s a shame, they are entirely re-usable.

most of them are terracota, some of them are glazed. They were produced in different factories and they do not work (interlock).

This is hard work because when you’ve gotten in a batch that you did buy, the next five customers might come in asking for the same model but really they want the batches that you didn’t buy. Luck of the draw.

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Must be an absolute headache for you the kinds of varieties that these roof tiles come in - I’ve heard (froom Bath Reclamation) that a lot of Clay Pantiles, even with no interlocks they don’t sit well together because the way they made them back then, they would use their thighs to get the mould.

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Do you know what I’m going to agree with you on that - they are not uniform. The curvatures are very different - when you lay these on a roof they do not sit down very nicely at all. They are horrible.

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Which roof tiles are the best-selling within the yard ? I suspect that it must be some of the clay tiles that are the most sellable ?

That’s right - they are the Clay Double Romans. There are so many different types, though. They look the same, but they’re not, they don’t fit together, you can’t use them on the same roof.

There’s so much room to move them. I was told that this was to let methane out in barns through the roof. They do make new batches of these and they are just as horrible.

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They are the most commonly used ones, I just can’t get enough of them. They go out very quickly.

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Maybe there’s no way of knowing unless some kind of national roofing survey is done, but are they any roof tile’s that are specific to this region, more widely used in Dorset, for example ?

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There is, they are the Clay Double Romans. I would say that they are more widely used in this area, but it’s the same everywhere else these days. A lot of the clay tiles used in the UK were originally made in Bridgwater - so unless your roof is in Bridgwater, that’s as local as it gets these days.

They do, yes. Randomly. It must be in the mould but also in the kiln - they must have moved in the kiln, in the heat.

There was a new model (of the Clay Pantiles) that Redland made - I was one of the first roofers to use this model. The gentleman I was doing it for used to work at Redland, he then chose this roof tile for no reason apart from that it would look lovely on the property.

We were one of the first big companies to use this new tile. I had problems that they weren’t sitting well.

If you look one way on the roof, they look lovely. If you look the opposite way at the overlaps, they look horrendous - there are gaps. I rung up Redland for advice, they said ‘this is a brand new range, any problems you get and however you got over it could you please let us know and we’ll add it to our specifications sheet.’ I didn’t ring you for that, I rung you because I want the answer myself.

As a professional I’ve rung you up for advice, for the full service and frankly you’ve just let me down. I’m not giving you my advice after I’ve spent days and lost money on that specific job, I’m not going to let you know how I got over it.

There are an awful lot of roof tiles that were imported but I don’t know their names, I’ve got some French interlocking tiles. I’ve had them for two years now and I haven’t sold one. They were surplus stock for a huge roofing job nearby - the chances of me selling them now are slim to none.

One other quite widely used tile in this area are these - the Somerset 13s. They were made in and around Bridgwater. Annoyingly, there are five different types. They vary in colour,

The new ones vary just as much ?

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If even on the new ones you run into so many problems, why would anyone consider buying the reclaimed ones ?

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It would be more for a patch repair - for if someone is taking down a chimney, that’s quite common now.

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So they mostly just end up in the landfill, are they usually used for anything else after ?

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Usually on farmer’s gateways. A farmer would have them for free, or for a very low prive and they would use crushed concrete roof tiles to level the gateway to get machinery and the animals in and out.

They’re only sold in small quantities ; a chimney’s got to come down, wind damage, there’s probably enough here for a threemetre extension on the side of a property.

That’s when reclaim comes in if its listed you would have to use the same product.

As much as I didn’t like listed building people when I was on the other foot, now I quite like them because they’ll make people buy my product. I’ve spent a lot of time working on listed buildings, that was where my interest in this came in. I realised how hard it was to source for these materials.

I mean okay, there’s a use there. It’s sort of landfill, sort of not. It is still using the product for something else.

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But it’s been down-cycled.

Yeah, that is the end of its life. When it goes into a skip, then it goes to a skip company, they then process it so it then goes back into the market as crushed concrete. It’s not brilliant because of the mix of materials - in one bag you’ll maybe get a mix of clay, a bit of concrete, it’s very cheap but not a good product.

Would this have something to do with the value that the roofers see in them?

For us and especially you, working with reclaimed materials we see the value in its presence here in the yard because you know it’s been saved from the skip, and now it’s your task to find them a new home.

For a lot of contractors out there the value is one that’s more immediate - how much the tiles are worth if they sold them to yards like yours, and you would only really buy them if they have more potential for reuse.

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Are there any additional processes you would have to go through to prepare a concrete roof tile for re-use ?

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Other than removing the mortar, no, not for the concrete roof tiles. I’m not a big fan of cleaning the tiles because you don’t know what’s on there. You’ll be releasing a lot of stuff into the atmosphere. As long as the water channel is clear, they’re pretty much good to go. Whether or not they want to clean them, I leave that up to the buyer.

Why is it that the concrete roof tiles are so much harder to sell, as compared to the clay ones ?

With the concrete roof tiles, no one is really bothered about what’s happened to them.

There’s a few listed buildings around with random concrete tiles on them but not many.

Most have a natural slate roof or certainly if you go around Swanage it’s 90% stone roofs(on listed buildings), they are absolutely gorgeous.

Do you know what I’m going to agree with you on that. The market for reclaimed concrete roof tiles just isn’t there. Some of them are valuable, most of them are not.

They are normally thrown from the height of the scaffolds into the skip because we’re all convinced that there is no other use for them.

They’re crushed on site. It’s a shame.

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Seeing as you struggle to sell the Redland Deltas, for example, would you take in more when offered ?

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Yes, these I struggle to find homes for. I sold some the other day and I was shocked, that’s how hard they are to sell. I sold 250 of them to a gentleman who’s travelled all the way from Cornwall so again, if I can find the person, they are there. Whether its through social media or eBay but they’ve still had to travel all the way here to make sure that they fit onto the ones they already have.

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They are so strong because of that ridge, structurally you could walk all over these, they will not break. They’re very thick, aren’t they? Nearly an inch. It’s such a waste of resources to throw these out. It’s only concrete that you see here but a lot of process that goes into manufacturing this final product that you see here, that all goes to waste. They’re not produced anymore.

I just don’t know why the supermarket would use such an expensive roof covering - because of the weight load, the labour that goes in there is immense and they actually have patents on their roofs, I just think fair play to them. 99% of Morrison’s customers won’t notice - some people like myself would think, ‘that’s a lot of money you’ve spent of that roof, why did you do that?’

I get off with more than I can deal with, if I get any more of these I’ll turn them down because I just haven’t got the room, with my theory that they don’t sell so well.

Could be because it keeps the planners happy, because they’re putting up a building that will look aesthetically pleasing with its surroundings.

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And what happens to them if they stay for too long ?

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I try to keep them for as long as possible, you never know. But at some point it wouldn’t make any sense for me to have them lying around anymore - I just haven’t got the space.

When it gets to that point, I will send them to the skip. Not the best thing to do in my opinion - I might send them to a bigger yard that has that space but they will most likely end up crushed. Again, same with the Redland Deltas, there are people out there who want them, it’s just a matter of finding them, or them finding us.

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The plain tiles, they must be quite sellable, no?

Yes, they clay ones more than the concrete as usual - with the concrete you might struggle to but a new one that matches because of the way it weathers.

A colleague that I’ve previously trained for six years he’s gotten his hands on a lot of those I think it was about 3,000 of them because he knows that he can buy the tild-and-a-half for the edges, he can get one that’s very close.

Because these are so closely bonded you can get away with quite a variation of colour on the same roof - if you look at Morrison’s buildings (the supermarket) they look lovely, I love Morrison’s roofs. They spend a lot of money of their roofs, they could have just used some sort of sheeting, they didn’t need to worry about the tiles - I respect that.

images: Ele Mun, photographs of samples collected from Jurassic Reclamation and John James Roofing, March 2020

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Roof Tiles of Dorset

image: Ele Mun, Haysom Quarry, March 2020

An Hour South-East : Haysom Purbeck Stone

The masonry work is conducted in Purbeck, east of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage site in Dorset. The quarries within this area is particularly unique in that it consists of a large variation of stone types in the small area. It is possible to view 185 million years of sedimentary rock, deposition in 95 miles coastline.

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Haysom Purbeck Stone is an 11th-generation family business specialising in the quarrying and working of Purbeck stone.

The Haysom Purbeck Stone Quarry.

Covering approximately 13 acres of land, there is one major quarry for mining and is surrounded by different stone variations in different production stages.

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Mining in the quarry requires a long process of categorization.

Valuable stone is collected and stored on one side of the quarry and the cut offs are stored on the other side.

When mining in this particular pit is done, the cut offs will be deposited back into the hole.

Wall mounted stone saw. The quarried blocks of stone are placed on a pallet, then the saw moves along the track on the wall at a specified distance that is the desired thickness of the stone slabs.

The blade of this saw was around 2 metres in diameter, which was so insane to Diploma 18 that we had to take one out of our only two group photos throughout the year right in front of it. The other one was with a pile of salt in Brussels.

Purbeck Stone paving was traditionally handtooled to create an even, attractive, and non-slip finish.

Individual stones can be tooled around their edges to give them definition and to create a finish particularly appropriate for heritage and conservation projects.

Structural lintels are cut from the stone bed of Purbeck Spangle.

Here Juliet mentioned the difficulty of design and build contracts to sustain a relationship between the architect and a specified material supplier.

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A man in a suit holds something up in the air, the crowd goes bonkers.

It might have been a caterpillar of some kind, we are no experts on this matter.

Could the cutting and splicing of fruits into the pumpkin-headed, pineapplehaired, zucchini-lipped man shown here, for example, start to encourage an ad hoc attitude towards architecture?

images: Ele Mun, Square and Compass in Worth Matravers, Swanage, November 2019

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Find out in Volume 2.

images: Diploma 18, Worth Matravers, Swanage, October 2019

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(LEFT) INSIDE WINSPIT DISUSED QUARRY, (ABOVE) DIPLOMA 18 SLOWLY WALKING UP “THE SMUGGLERS WAYS” TRAIL, SOUTH PURBECK WALK AT SUNSET

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Diploma 18 would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the unit’s many collaborators, especially the maintenance and management team in Hooke Park.

Behind every chapter is an understanding enriched by encounters with

Zachary Mollica . Hooke Park Christopher Sadd . Hooke Park Charlie Corrywright . Hooke Park Georgie Corrywright . Hooke Park Tia Corrywright . Hooke Park Edward Coe . Hooke Park Jean-Nicolas Dackiw . Hooke Park Erwin Kalocsai . Hooke Park Gill Coates . Hooke Park Sheralyn Stuckey . Hooke Park Amina Yusupova . Student, Design + Make

Sam Little

. AA Graduate 2019

Arvind Roy . AA Graduate 2019 Mark Morris . AA Head of Teaching Simon Withers . AA Studio Master Ed Bottoms . AA Head of Archives Elena Luciano Suastegui . AA Landscape Urbanism Miraj Ahmed . AA Studio Master Juliet Haysom . Artist & Designer Amica Dall . Assemble Sebastien Marot . Writer

Bim Burton . The Bartlett, UCL Jack Self . The Real Review Sophie Boone . Rotor Arne Vanden Capelle . Rotor Maria Speake . Retrouvius Adam Hills . Retrouvius Peter Jurschitzka . David Chipperfield Architects Johannes Feder . David Chipperfield Architects Irene Djao-Rakitine . Djao-Rakitine Landscape Architecture Anna Falgueres . Movie Director & Production Designer John Shank . Script Writer & Production Designer

Nigel Fisher . Whytham Woods Conservator Elisa Dierickx . Flora & Fauna Philippe de Wouters . Royal Forestry Society, Belgium Amir Bouyahi . Royal Forestry Society, Belgium Jean Goovaerts . Royal Forestry Society, Belgium Nick Tomlinson . Naturalist, Bat Specialist Stephen Hales . Naturalist Jo Ferguson . Bat Conservation Trust Danielle Linton . Bat Researcher Neil Forte . Jurassic Reclamation Kate Edwards . Edwards and Eve Cob Building Hanadi Rammu . University College London Philip Powell . Museum of Natural History, Oxford Kristin Ross . The School of Architecture at Taliesin Jessica Martin . The School of Architecture at Taliesin

Jason Watts . Hanson Concrete plant in Yeovil Christopher J Smith . Mixmate Concrete

597 acknowledgments

Amy Evans . Wren’s Nursery

DIPLOMA 18 BIOGRAPHIES 2019/20

Shidi Fu is a big fan of World of Warcraft.

He currently has a L.36 Undead Mage and a L.30 Worgen Druid. He also loves landscape and planning and plans to do something along those lines in the future.

Shreya Kochatta is interested in the revival of unmanaged and abandoned landscapes. She has a proclivity towards dark architecture and has also designed a house for a killer.

Lydia Cho Ying Liu is interested in the material aspect of the building process as a means for collective action. She is also an avid collector of rocks and has a passion for geology.

Sorana-Stefana Mazilu is interested in the concrete industry’s waste management system and its potential for creating new construction techniques using surplus materials.

She is a diligent follower of The Great British Bake Off and is currently trying to master the Éclair.

Ele Mun continues to explore his keen interest in narratives through the written word, filmmaking, as well as architecture. He is also a self-proclaimed hoarder of all things pleasant (most recently roof tiles).

Joyce KaKei Ng is an architect with a particular interest in environmentally conscious work. She also hopes to design her own narrowboat in the near future and explore England’s canals.

Nicole Ng would like to further her belief and interest in the role of design education for the practice of citizenship.

She aspires to be an educator and to create an architectural education network in South East Asia where she is from. She is also a lover of coconut water (the one from Innocent) and the game Overcooked (the first one).

Andrew Robertson is a designer drawn to complex problems that require elegant and unique solutions, embracing entropy in architecture and in life.

Clara Schwarz wants to be a specialist in timber construction and forestry management. She also dreams of running her own designer bakery in Paris one day.

Connie Lynn Tang is interested in the management of local resources and the relationship between humans and their immediate environment. She enjoys the little things in life such as the sound of birds chirping and the smell of cedar.

Cheddar is her least favourite type of cheese.

Ke Yang is both a lover of nature and a natural lover. He specialises in the intersection between material research, high-tech and low-tech fabrication techniques and design.

Lionel Devlieger spent a lot of time studying the material economy of the Italian Renaissance and the cultural representations that accompanied it, before deciding to turn his attention the same topic for the present age.

Aude-Line Dulière is an architect.

She holds a M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and also studied in Brussels at Sint-Lucas (KU Leuven). She worked at David Chipperfield Architects between 2010-15 and has been part of the development team at Rotor in Brussels.

She previously practiced on the construction and conception of movie sets across Europe.

Maarten Gielen Maarten Gielen was born at the age of 42. He cofounded the collective Rotor where he currently works as light designer and deconstruction manager. He curated together with Lionel Devlieger the 2013 Oslo Architecture Triennale and was awarded the Rotterdam-Maaskant prize in 2015.

James Westcott is an editor, most recently of Countryside (Taschen, 2020) and Elements of Architecture (Taschen, 2018), and the author of When Marina Abramovic Dies: A Biography (MIT Press, 2010). He is interested in ecology, climate, the neolithic, and domestication.

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Alice Nobel is fascinated by the inherent qualities of different materials and aims to use each material for what it is good for. She started off the year becoming the unit expert on Hooke Park’s wood species, and later researched the thermal properties of concrete. Popcorn is what keeps her awake in the nights, she eats at least one bowl each night.

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INDEX A AA Archive 32, 34, 36, 38, 41, 46, 122 AA Community 429 Accommodation 16, 37, 39, 137 Afforestation 139 Air-drying 469 Alder 327, 328, 332, 387, 411, 413, 430 Amazon delivery 110 Architectural Association 21, 217 Argillaceous 245 Argillic-Arenaceous 245 Artifical wood 363 Arup 81, 85, 89, 93, 97, 175 Ash 327, 328, 333, 347, 387, 407, 409, 411, 413, 430 Assembly 117 Atelier One 73 Autonomy 392 B Badgers 297 Barbecues 111, 543 Bath Reclamation 582 Bath University 81 Bats 135, 297, 305, 308, 309 B&B 108 Bedford Square 16, 17, 221, 347 Beech 25, 327, 328, 334, 347, 387, 407, 409, 411, 413, 430, 470 Bees 495 Big Shed 39, 117, 141, 562 Biodiversity 23, 303, 309, 427 Biofuel 467 Biomass Boiler House 141, 483, 503 Biophony 313 Bird Tower 209 Bluebell 16 Boundaries 327, 556, 573, 576 Bracken 352, 357, 358 Bracken Pteridium aquilinum 355 Branches 149, 151, 153, 155, 167, 437, 465 Brick 543 Bridport 241, 558-563, 580, 597 Bridport Times 558-563, 597 British Geological Society 239 Bubble wrap 149-51 Budget 147, 515 Buffer tank 505 Buro Happold 32, 33, 37, 41, 42, 44, 51, 57, 63, 69, 73, 85 Burton, Richard 32, 33, 35, 42, 44, 51, 57, 58, 61 C Campus 16, 17, 21, 31, 33-103, 141, 146-147, 221, 231, 239, 301, 307-308, 369, 370, 371, 372, 379, 429, 433, 470, 471, 487, 497, 499, 505, 511, 559 Carbon dioxide 438, 452 Care 17, 343, 513, 515, 523, 581 Caretaker’s House 39, 141 Carlos Villanueva Brandt Architects 38, 39, 41 Carpentry 337 Centerpoint Fountains 199 Children 571, 576 Clay 239, 245, 251, 253, 257, 470, 582, 583, 584 Climate change 438 Colluvium 245 Coe, Edward 81, 89, 93, 97

Community 33, 39, 111, 165, 217, 221, 429, 493, 511, 514, 515 Community relationship 39 Concrete 39, 247, 581, 583-584, 604, 605, 608-609 Concrete tiles 581, 583 Conifers 323, 429, 430 Construction 16, 21, 33-39, 113, 117, 145, 153, 429, 473, 543 Contractors 471, 583 Coppice 371, 567 Corrywright, Charlie 81, 89, 93, 97, 224, 227-300, 513, 543 Corsican Pine 328, 335 Cretaceous Period 241 Cullinan Studio 34-35, 42, 44 Cycling 108 D Darby, Kate 73, 77 Darkroom 141 Deadwood 465 Deciduous tree 337 Deer 297, 301-307, 443, 445, 449, 470, 531 Deer Hide 175 Royal deer park 301, 470 Density 340, 345, 357 Deposits 265, 267 Design & Make 16, 21, 39, 49, 73, 79, 83, 91, 93, 95, 99, 103, 117, 175, 221, 502, 504, 506, 516 Dickson, Michael 51, 57, 63 Diploma 9 39 Diseases 471, 531 District heating system 499, 505 Diversity 239 Dorset 21, 41, 103, 308, 347, 371, 428, 516, 555-556, 563, 566567, 569, 579, 582, 585, 587 Double skin 149, 151 Douglas Fir 328, 336, 347 Dry leaves 149 E Ebay 147 Ecosystem 17, 110, 391, 445, 495, 555 Edible seeds 343 Educational 21, 25, 421, 429 Elena Barthel 39 Enclosure 145 Energy 33, 231, 505, 525 Energy generation 231 Engineered 562 England 21, 423, 427 Environment 110, 227, 327, 392, 449, 470, 495, 516, 556, 567 Erosion 263, 267, 271, 276, 278, 280, 282, 284, 286 Even-age 23 Evergreen 470 Evans, Amy 576 Exercising 109 Exploratory map 173 Extensions 131 F Fabrication 103, 117 Fagus Sylvetica 25 Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects 37 Felling 385, 431, 458, 461, 465, 471 Fibre-glass 167 Fireplace 147, 156, 164, 165 First World War 470 Flint 239 Food 495, 513-517, 525, 529, 532

Footings 37 Forest 21, 31, 33, 108, 110-113, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 226-227, 231, 239, 272, 323, 392, 429, 470-471, 499, 533, 543, 556 Forest Commission 301, 379, 470, 471 Forester 85, 89, 93, 97, 301, 428, 470 Forestry 35, 139, 141, 384, 385 Foundation 37 Foundry 141 Foxes 297 Freear, Andrew 39 Frei Otto 32, 33, 42, 44, 51, 57, 58, 61 Fungi 305, 392, 419 Furniture school 35, 117 G Garden 501, 515-516, 523, 527, 531, 532, 579, 580 Gault clay 239, 253 Gault Formation 241 Geology 239 Greensand Formation 239, 241 Gully 247, 259 Gumtree 147 Guntamatic biomass boiler 497 H Hardwood 309, 323, 337 Harvest 461, 495 Harvester 465 Harvesting 271, 431, 458, 531 Haysom Purbeck Stone 571, 587, 588 Haysom Quarry 586, 588, 589, 591, 592, 597 Health 110, 495, 576 Heat production 503 Herbs 435, 533, 537 History 23, 25, 423, 514 Housing 35, 161 Human involvement 471 Hunted 307 Hyper-local 556 I Income generation 431 Industry 563 Innovation 486 Insect 297 Instructions 471, 576 Insulation 149, 151, 153, 167, 308 Interviews 103, 108, 304, 580 Invertebrates 419 Invisible Studio 69, 71 J Jack Hawker 81, 89, 93, 97 Jo Denbury 559 John Makepeace 470, 513 Jurassic Coast 587 Jurassic Reclamation 571, 578, 579, 580, 585, 597

Locals 109, 111, 421, 567 Log 473 logistics 515 London 21, 108, 110-111, 113, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 347, 471, 573 Low-quality 499 M Maeda Twisting concrete workshops 39 Maintenance 17, 139, 523, 531 Makelab Tower 197 Managed 17, 110, 307, 309, 377, 379, 391, 392 Marking 471 Masterplan 33, 35, 39, 49 Material 21, 37, 153, 227, 245, 309, 323, 429, 566, 579, 591 Material agenda 37 Maturity 430, 431 Metalwork 117 Mice 297, 307 Micro-biomes 391 Mitchell Taylor Workshop 73 Mixed-age 23 Moisture 247, 251, 469 Moss carpet 411 Moths 297, 303 Mollica, Zachary 15, 16, 51, 57, 63, 69, 73, 77, 81, 85, 89, 93, 97, 173-174, 221, 326, 464, 543, 556, 598, 602, 607 Mudstone 239, 241, 243, 245 N National 418, 429 Native 297, 344, 423, 429, 470 Non-humans 17, 392 Norway Spruce 25, 328, 338, 347, 387-389, 405, 430, 470 O Off-site 37 Outbuildings 129, 131, 133, 137 Outdoor learning 576 P Parnham Trust 25, 33, 37, 46, 52, 55, 122, 470 Permaculture 273, 523, 525 Permitted development 125, 127, 129, 131-141 Pheasants 307 Picea Abies 25 Planning permission 25, 35, 125, 129, 131-137, 140, 141 Plastic tubing 443 Poplar 327, 329, 340 Post-war 25 Prefabrication 37 Primary structures 49 Private ways 139 Programme 16, 21, 39, 173, 221 Prototype 35 Prototype House 33, 141 Pruning 437 Public 33, 110, 111, 429 Q

L Landfill 583 landscape 21, 145, 231, 239, 257, 313, 377, 391, 392, 555 Larch 327, 328, 337, 387 Limestone 241, 243, 245 Limitations 17 Listed building 137, 581, 583 Livestock 576

Quartz 243 R Ratchet straps 161, 167 Reclaimed yoga mattress 153 Red Cedar 329, 345, 347 Redesign 350, 470

Red Oak 329, 341 Regeneration 358, 407, 409, 423, 429 Regulate 307 Renewable 503 Replanting 431, 471 Repopulate 443 Residences 33 Resource 108, 581 Re-use 113, 583 Rills 259, 267 Roof 131, 133, 135, 137, 163, 309, 571, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584 Roof extension 135 Roof tiles 309, 571, 580, 581, 582, 583 Round wood 33 Rudaceous 245

Temporary 127, 145, 173, 543 Tension 33, 163 Testing ground 16 Thinning 435 Timber 16, 25, 31, 33, 103, 133, 231, 271, 309, 335-336, 341, 344, 345, 347, 392, 431, 437, 457, 461, 469-471, 473, 499, 503, 536, 559, 566 Timber construction 16 Timber products 461 Timber Seasoning Shelter 39, 80, 81, 83, 141, 468 Timber technology 31 Topsoil 249 Toxins 358 Tractor 471 Trampoline 160, 161, 163 Tripod structure 153

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Sadd, Christopher 17, 41, 85, 89, 93, 97, 301, 324, 331, 350, 352, 384, 431, 449, 460, 461, 470, 472, 543 Salvage 113 Saplings 443 Sawmill 467, 469

Unmanaged 363, 385 Utopia 165

School 21, 31, 33, 35, 103, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 117, 428, 471, 513, 576 Seasons 259, 267, 327 Secondary structures 173 Sedimentary rock 587 Self-reliance 493, 514 Self, Martin 69, 73, 77, 81, 85, 89, 93, 97 Self-sufficiency 21, 543 Settlement 165 Shelters 145, 165 Army Shelter 155 Sawmill Shelter 141, 175 Shrubs 435 Silica 243 Site of Special Scientific Interest 129, 133, 427, 429 Sitka Spruce 329, 342, 387, 403 Social arrangements 165 Softwood 309, 323 Soil 231, 239, 259, 271, 357, 438 Soil erosion 276, 278, 280-284, 286 Soil nutrient 231 South Lodge 221 Species 25, 135, 297, 303, 308, 313, 323, 327, 344, 357-358, 391-392, 403-413, 423, 429-431, 435, 443, 470 Protected species 135, 271, 308, 427, 429-430 Spores 355 Squirrels 297, 307, 443, 531 Stairway to Nowhere 175 Stakeholder 428, 429 Steam-bending 334, 339 Stone 133, 239, 278, 284, 583, 587-591 Strategic Plan 39 Streams 239, 271, 313, 473 Student Lodges 39, 221 Summer Build Programme 39 Sunlight 357, 403-413, 527, 531 Sustainable development 39 Swamp 407 Sweet Chestnut 327, 329, 343 Sycamore 327, 329, 344, 387 T Tarp 153 Tarpaulin 163, 169 Taylor, Piers 69, 73, 77, 85

V Vegetation 276, 278, 280, 282, 284, 286 vernacular 108, 556 Visiting School 21, 175 W Wakeford 141, 428 Wakeford Hall Library 97,141 Walks 108, 113 Warden 221 Waste management 525, 571 Waste products 581 Watch Tower 175 Water body 271 Water cycles 231 Water logging 276, 278, 280, 282, 284, 286 Waterproofing 149, 151 Wellbeing 297 Westminster Lodge 108, 309, 470 Wetness 167, 407 Wet wood 470 Wi-Fi 110 Wildlife 231, 301, 303, 305, 307, 427, 443, 470, 567 Wild-wood 423 Winch 459, 465, 467 Wind 167, 263, 267, 435, 559, 583 Wind erosion 263, 267 Winter fleece cover 153 Wood chip 483, 503 Woodchip Barn 141, 175, 467 Woodland 16, 21, 23, 31, 33, 103, 173, 271, 301, 307, 308, 309, 313, 323, 331, 350, 357, 363, 369-372, 384-385, 403, 413, 419-421, 423, 425, 427, 429, 431, 433, 435, 437, 441, 443, 445, 447, 449, 451, 452, 461, 467, 470, 471, 516, 559, 563, 566-576 Ancient Woodland 390, 419, 424, 427, 429, 430 Woodland crafts 567 Woodland floor 435 Woodland Management 384, 385, 421 Woodland management plan 384, 420, 461 Woods 25, 113, 427, 435, 452, 470, 471, 499, 514, 529 Workshop 21, 37, 39, 109, 113, 117, 118, 224, 323, 347, 470, 497, 514, 515, 516, 523, 529 World Heritage site 587 Wren’s Nursery 570, 571, 574, 576, 577

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