Each year for the past decade, the UK-Based Architectural Association holds an intensive Design + Make program where students construct experimental architecture on a 1:1 scale at the school's 270 acre Hooke Park campus in Dorset, England (a program very similar to the one profiled in Shelter's 'Studio in the Woods'). Focused on exploring the intersection of digital and hand fabrication, the program assigns each new team a prompt and they set to work, designing and building a structure to add to the growing campus of sculptural cabins.
In 2020, a newly assembled crew of students produced the Woodland Cabin, a 270 sq ft cabin built both by a robotic arm and human hands for a structure that seamlessly blends whimsy and minimalism. And although the cabin functions more as a product of architectural research, consider this our official application to rent this baby for a long weekend to come.