AA Design + Make

AA Design + Make Design + Make. Fabricating experimental architectures at the Architectural Association’s Hooke Park campus.

Headquartered at the Architectural Association's Hooke Park campus, the Design + Make master's programme explores fabrication and design at the intersection of craft knowledge, innovative technologies and natural materials. Through the realisation of full-scale prototypes and permanent buildings, students conceive and construct experimental architecture driven by the principle of design-through-ma

king. The programme's core agenda is to advance the materialisation of architecture through the synthesis of advanced technologies, craft techniques, and deep understanding of natural material. The key proposition is that new digital design and fabrication technologies enable traditional making techniques to be re-invented as innovative and appropriate processes for architecture.

Celebrating the Makers team of “Tree and the Truss,” where it stands as a reverence to both the community and the projec...
10/09/2024

Celebrating the Makers team of “Tree and the Truss,” where it stands as a reverence to both the community and the project achieved.

Join in with D+M on Pioneering the Potential+ 2024- September 20th, 2024.

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“Tree and the Truss” on Pioneering the Potential+ 2024, join in on a dialogue with D+M as the making and progression of ...
10/09/2024

“Tree and the Truss” on Pioneering the Potential+ 2024, join in on a dialogue with D+M as the making and progression of the designing is laid out, responding to current day’s climatic sensitivities.

September 20th, 2024, under Architecture, Technology, Materials I.
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Thrilled to be part of Pioneering the Potential+ 2024, where D+M will unveil methodologies and design explorations of Ti...
10/09/2024

Thrilled to be part of Pioneering the Potential+ 2024, where D+M will unveil methodologies and design explorations of Timber Build experiments at Hooke Park!

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September 20th, 2024.
Head to the website for more details:
https://www.fourthdoor.org/wp/?p=665.

Final components are laid out in preparation for final assembly on-site. One week left until the space frame is lifted i...
17/09/2022

Final components are laid out in preparation for final assembly on-site. One week left until the space frame is lifted into place.

08/08/2022
23/06/2022

A lot of planning went into lifting a 24 m² space frame 3 meters high, all within the tight dimensions of the New Courtyard. Without access to the telehandler we had to get creative. A pair of genie lifts and acrow props made the difficult task look rather easy, and install went smoothly.

Connective Tissue / The roof takes its shape from the collecting of rainwater along a central spine dividing the public ...
06/04/2022

Connective Tissue / The roof takes its shape from the collecting of rainwater along a central spine dividing the public and private space. Harvested rainwater is redistributed through a series of connective tendrils for domestic use.

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02/04/2022

Exploratory models on display for the Design and Make's term two jury exhibition.

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The final project to revisit from our graduating class is Lucas Wilson’s An Ash Tree. Singling out a single tree for 3D ...
23/06/2019

The final project to revisit from our graduating class is Lucas Wilson’s An Ash Tree. Singling out a single tree for 3D scanning and analysis this project in Hooke Park aimed to more effectively and better use timber from UK woodlands – developing ways of re-examining conventional thinking in forestry, design and making practices. @ Hooke Park

Next up North Lodge. Come see us in  this coming Saturday if you’re in Dorset
22/04/2019

Next up North Lodge. Come see us in this coming Saturday if you’re in Dorset

17/04/2019

’s new Robotic Developer will collaborate with the on exciting large scale robotic applications such as this custom bandsaw end effector used in the production of Wakeford’s Library frame.
Apply by April 22 2019

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