
South Student Lodge
The South Student Lodge provides a two-bedroom accommodation for long-term students, with a social space that can be used a kitchen-dining-living space for four students. The project, designed and built by five Design & Make students, is a timber frame (using Hooke Park timber), clad in western red cedar and reclaimed glass. A high proportion of the building is of reclaimed and recycled materials.
Student Lodge is the second of the student accommodation units to be built as part of the Architectural Association’s Hooke Park campus in rural Dorset.
The developed around two main processes:
Full scale prototyping
The full scale prototypes have allowed us to inhabit the design intentions and to understand the outcome and consequences of drawings. Design aspects such as scale, orientation, distribution and proportion have been a direct consequence of the prototyping experimentation process.
Reacting to reused, recycled and reclaimed materials
We have gathered these locally and have been engaging and developing ties with the local community. Aluminium, galvanized steel, double and triple glazing, slates, floorboards and miscellaneous unique items have been inventoried and catalogued. This has allowed us to use to carefully assess the usage possibilities of these items and use them to design wall cladding systems, windows, structural members and customised furniture pieces.
Project Credits
Students: Carlos Chen, Stephanie Cramer, Sarina Adelle Da Costa Gomez, Iosif Dakoronias-Marina, Elizabeth Lawrence
Tutors: Charley Brentnall, Stewart Dodd, Martin Self, Piers Taylor
Arup: Francis Archer, Craig Irvine, Suria Ismail