The Hooke Park Workshop, by Richard Burton of ABK and Frei Otto, with the engineers Buro Happold, uses spruce thinnings from the forest that form a compression grid-shell structure. Complete in 1989, the result is a remarkable enclosure built using waste materials from the
surrounding forest. Two of the three bays of the roof accommodate a large fully equipped timber workshop while the third contains an
office-studio with computing facilities and a small library. Photo Valerie Bennett

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The Crossings Project, completed in 2007, is an experimental footbridge structure within the forest. Funded by the Custerson Award,
it is an AA student-built project led by Valentin Bontjes van Beek and Nathalie Rozencwajg. The AV Custerson Award is given annually to a member of the Architectural Association community to fund a project promoting the use of timber at Hooke Park.  Photo Martin Self

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A Separate Place is a hanging retreat in the forest built in 2007 during a month-long summer workshop by a student group led by
Custerson Award recipient Jesse Randzio.  Photo Jesse Randzio.

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For four consecutive academic years from 2005/06 to 2008/09 students in Intermediate Unit 2 engaged in a year-long collaborative process of designing and building a pavilion, exploring the possibilities of design in wood using the facilities at Hooke Park during the
construction process, to be installed in Bedford Square for the opening of the end-of-year exhibition Projects Review. This Pavilion, designed and built in 2005/6, has been relocated back to its orginal place of construction. Photo Martin Self.

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