AA VISITING SCHOOL

Date: 2017

Architect/Designer: Clementine Blakemore Architecture with Timber Workshop

Structural Engineer: Structure Workshop

Location: Kingcombe, Dorset

Timber Workshop worked alongside Clementine Blakemore and Common Ground during this 2 week Visiting School for the Architecture Association. Working with 9 international architecture students, the course involved the construction of a boardwalk and outdoor classroom structure for the Dorset Wildlife Trust. The students saw the project from log milling, workshop processing, prefabrication and timber framing, through to site construction.

In 2018 we will continue working with Kingcombe Wildlife Centre, located a few miles from Hooke Park – the AA’s rural campus in West Dorset. The project will focus on the second phase of a riverside boardwalk and outdoor classroom / events space.

Photos: Valerie Bennett

AA Visiting School Timber Frame
AA Visiting School Timber Frame
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AA Visiting School Boardwalk Fabrication
AA Visiting School Boardwalk Fabrication
AA Visiting School Timber Frame Fabrication
AA Visiting School Timber Frame Fabrication
AA Visiting School Boardwalk Fabrication
AA Visiting School
AA Visiting School Timber Frame Fabrication
AA Visiting School Timber Frame
AA Visiting School Timber Frame
AA Visiting School Timber Frame
AA Visiting School Timber Frame
The collaborative design and assembly of a new timber boardwalk and outdoor community space at the Kingcombe Centre, a wildlife reserve and educational site owned by the Dorset Wildlife Trust. With biodiversity at the centre of the design and make process, the finished structure will be rooted in the local context, sensitive to the local people and wildlife. All the Douglas fir and western red cedar used to build the structure is sourced from Hooke Park (a nearby woodland managed by the Architectural Association) and Pullabrook in the Bovey Valley, Devon, a woodland managed by the Woodland Trust.

Video by Common Ground

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