Woodland Cabin - Hooke Park, UK

This research explores approaches to spatial design which encourage movement, play and exploration with(in) the built environment.

By questioning standardized design and build practices that depend highly on assumptions about the human body and its abilities, this research explores an approach to designing that is not based on assumptions but on providing potentials for movement beyond the ground plane. Advocating for the design of spaces which embrace re-interpretability and non-prescriptive potentials for spatial exploration.

These ambitions were applied in the built project, here in an effort to highlight the potential of these nonprescription design methods a structural webbing for the March woodland cabin was built. Which by using naturally forked geometry and doing all the processing by hand, resulted in a built project which both in its construction and use, fully engages the body. Providing the potential for the inhabitants of the cabin to access use and reinterpret the space usually left out of reach.