AA SCHOOL

OF ARCHITECTURE

FLOOR
PLAN
BEDFORD HOOKE
SQUARE PARK

2019–20
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Photo Library
AA Archive
Archive
4

Archive
AA
As you enter the old Georgian Square in Bloomsbury London, the domestic

AA
facades facing east mask what lies behind – an international and cultural
referent for the production of new and relevant forms of inquiry, discourse

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Library Book Storage
and radical practice in the form of an architectural school. Initially founded

Workshop
Facilities
as a night school in 1847, the Architectural Association opened as a day

Facilities
Office
school in 1901, and needing more space moved into the houses at 34–35
Bedford Square in 1917.

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Studio
Office
Photo
Today the AA London campus consists of ten buildings and 68,0000

Photo Studio
square feet of unusual and idiosyncratic space. Generations of students
and tutors have occupied these rooms through an attitude of appropriation,

Restaurant
Morwell Street
transforming them into events, models, experiments, drawings, projections

Wood and Metal

Chings
Yard
Workshop
and multi-use programmes that use the domestic heritage and charm of the

Kitchen
buildings as a backdrop.

Bedford Square
The plans shown in this guide provide a map of how to navigate from space
to space and floor to floor. For students and staff, treat these rooms as your

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Workshop
Assembly
home and feel free to occupy them in any way you see fit – there are no
rules. For the general public we invite you into our home as 36 Bedford

Robotics

Robotics
DPL

DPL
Square is open to all; please feel free to come to the bar, have a drink, join in
a conversation, attend a lecture or venture into the AA Bookshop located at

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33 Bedford Square.

CNC
DPL
Office
Model and Casting

DPL
Workshop

38
Rear Mezzanine

3D Printing
Audio Visual

Cutting
Laser
DPL

DPL
To book Open Rooms please visit Disability access for entrances and exits
roombook.aaschool.ac.uk or contact: around the AA School are indicated in
each Floor Plan sections. Please contact

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Undergraduate units, Foundation, Reception for assistance in navigating
Complementary Studies School grounds.

Cutting
Laser
DPL
SLS

DPL
and Public Programme bookings

Media
Studies
Office

16
Rachel Sim Reception
rachel.sim@aaschool.ac.uk Monday–Friday, 09.00–22.00

Library Book Storage

Saturday, 09.30–22.00
Graduate School bookings Sunday, 10.00–22.00
Clement Chung reception@aaschool.ac.uk
clement@aaschool.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7887 4000

Computer Workshop bookings

Indicates a bookable space

Julia Frazer
julia@aaschool.ac.uk

XR Room
Joel Newman
joel@aaschool.ac.uk
Basement
 Indicates a bookable space

Landscape
Urbanism
Studio LU
Office

16 Morwell Street 34 (rear entrance)

Dip 8
Security Ex 3 Foundation
First Year
Print Centre Studio
Computing Workshop
and Supply Shop LAWuN

Computing Reception Graduate

Workshop Security Gallery

Ground Floor
33 Ground
South Jury North Jury Floor
Computing Room Room
Office Circle Room
Ex 11 Dip 2

AA AA
Gallery Bookshop

AA
Open Room
Lecture Hall Residence
38 Ground XR Room
Computing Incubator
Office Floor Front

39 38 37 36 34 33 32
Bedford Square

Indicates a bookable space

Projective HCT
AAIS AAIS Cities Studio
Studio Studio Studio SED
AAIS / PC Office
Offices

16 Morwell Street 34

FY Office
Ex 5
Ex 8
First Year Studio
SED Studio EmTech Studio FY
Office Ex 14

Back Members’
Room
First Floor

Hot Desks

Meditation
Security
Room

Student Library Library Open Room Open Room

Care + AA Bar 33 First Floor 32 First Floor
Writing Back Back
Dip 7 Ex 13
Centre

Open Room Open Room Open Room

Front Members’
Computer Dip 6 37 First Floor Library 33 First Floor 32 First Floor
Room
Teaching Front Front Front
Quiet Zone

39 38 37 36 34 33 32
Bedford Square
 Indicates a bookable space

Housing & Urbanism Housing & Urbanism

Studio Studio
HCT Housing & Urbanism
Office Offices

16 Morwell Street 34

Ex 15 Ex 7 Dip 13 Ex 10 Ex 2
Intermediate
Terrace

DRL Studio DRL Studio Ex 1

Dip 20 Dip 17 Ex 12 Ex 6

AA Terrace
Teaching and

Second Floor
Learning Office

Admissions Development
Digital Membership Open Room
Office
Platforms Public Finance / 32 Second
Technical
Programme Accounts Floor Back
Studies Part 3
Dip 16 Print Studio Alumni
Office Dip 19 Co-ordinator
Offices Visiting
School

Co-ordinators
Quality
Human
Assurance
TS Dip 18 PhD Director’s Registrar’s Student Resources Open Room
Ex 18 Visiting School Open
Office Office Office Affairs and
Student Aid Room
Payroll

Foundation Head of Finance

Office

39 38 37 36 34 33 32
Bedford Square

Indicates a bookable space

4
16 Morwell Street 34

DRL Studio

Barrel Vault
Third Floor

Dip 4 Ex 16 Dip 10 Ex 9
Ex 4/
Dip 9 Dip 9 Ex 17
Printer

Tutorial Ex 4
Room
Via Christina

Dip 3 Company Dip 11

Dip 15 Dip 12 Dip 5 Dip 14
Dip 1 Secretary’s
Dip 14 Dip 21
Archive

Office
HTS Office

Student Forum
AA Radio
39 38 37 36 34 33 32
Bedford Square
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Point your digital compass southwest and travel 144 miles from the AA’s
London campus and discover Hooke Park – a 150-hectare working forest
that is owned and operated by the school and contains a growing educational

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facility for design, workshop, construction and landscape-focussed activities.
Located in the county of Dorset, England, it has been designated as Ancient
Woodland and forms part of the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The surrounding area includes an active farming community and the market
towns of Beaminster and Bridport and just a few miles inland from the

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Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The woodland is a mixture of broadleaved and conifer species that provide

Morwell Street

the prime source of timber for students’ construction activities. This ethical
premise, of using the immediate material resource for building, was
established in the 1980s for the three original campus buildings for the
Parnham furniture college designed by architects ABK, Frei Otto and Edward

Bedford Square
Cullinan, and engineers Buro Happold. Following exchange of ownership to
the AA in 2002, the campus development has continued with new workshop

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and accommodation facilities designed and built by students of the AA’s
Design + Make postgraduate programme. The plans in the guide provide a
localised map for these campus buildings, but we encourage all who visit to
venture beyond this immediate vicinity and feel free to get lost in the forest.

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Open Room Open Room

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16

39 Fourth 39 Fourth
Back Front 2

Semester
Programmes

Fourth Floor
 Hooke Park Campus

Sawmill Shelter

Wood Chip
Barn

North Lodge
Timber Shelter

Big Shed

South Lodge

Wakeford Lodge

Hooke Park Caretakers House

(Perimeter Overview)

Refectory
Workshop

Hooke Park/Bedford Square

(UK Overview)

Boiler
House

Hooke Park
Campus

Westminster Lodge

London

Hooke Park
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School of Architecture
Floor Plan 2019–20

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