28 June 2024
Furnishing the Landscape: Architectural Summer Camp
he Japan Study Program is a unique design research platform that interlinks three workshops across geographical and contextual distances: the post-agricultural community in Koshirakura, the contemporary urban/suburban life styles of Tokyo, and the fabrication facilities situated at the woodlands of Hooke Park and in ICI Lab.
This workshop will take place at Hooke Park, the AA's woodland campus in Dorset. Building on a series of material fabrication experiments, participants will work solely with locally-harvested timber and clay to emphasise the opportunities offered by the mixed use of digital and analogue fabrication techniques. Our aim is that these collective efforts to reimagine the present environment by revisiting older and more traditional ideas will help to coalesce the combined notions of industry and craft, multiple and bespoke, and poetic and practical. We will seek to playfully explore and materialise artefacts to lay over the woodland's current topography. The programme will contribute to the outdoor dining area at the heart of Hooke Park.
Course leader
Shin Egashira
Target group
The course is aimed at creative minds: prospective architectural students, current architectural students who would like to experience the learning environment at the AA; those who are considering a change of school; those who just completed school; individuals considering a change of career; and newcomers to architecture are all welcome to explore and innovate at the AA Visiting School. +18 y. o. age requirement.
Fee info
GBP 60: Fees are free for AA students and staff. Non-AA participants will pay AA membership (£60)
Accomodation: there will be a camping option. We will charge £30 per day for food and service including accommodation.
Students need to bring their own laptops, digital equipment and model making tools.
Scholarships
Fees are free for AA students and staff. Non-AA participants will pay AA membership (£60)