Cove Park and the Architectural Association is calling upon architects, designers, and artists to generate spatial propositions for Cove Park’s site in collaboration with the Architectural Association’s Visiting School (AAVS). This call is open to current architecture, design and art students, PhD candidates and young professionals, and creative practitioners globally, and not just students or graduates of the Architectural Association.

The Visiting School is a global network of courses and workshops pursued and shaped by students working intensively in small groups led by AA tutors. Central to the programme is the idea that experimental, new, and provocative forms of architecture are best learned by doing. The school promotes, tests and challenges global interests in architectural learning and exchange by embedding a diverse group of creative students and tutors in an array of unique rural, urban, and international contexts.

Cove Park is very excited to be the location for the 2022 Visiting School from 4 – 24 July. The School will engage with Cove Park’s plans for the development and extension of our accommodation and facilities on site, integrating principles of low embodied carbon, co-living and responsibility towards the land. The School will invite participants to consider what these terms mean today as we plan for an uncertain future defined by climate breakdown. How can we integrate a radical ethos of environmental sustainability with flexible land management planning and ever-changing user’s needs and desires?  How can we best relate to the scale of the site, the challenging presence of the natural elements, and the existing buildings?

AAVS Cove Park will be a three-week experimental programme in which to explore these questions by interrogating, researching, and testing spatial propositions within the context of Cove Park and our 50-acre site. Participants will be free to undertake an individual or collaborative approach to their projects amongst a multi-disciplinary cohort. As a group AAVS 2022 will transform Cove Park into a dynamic forum, generating and exchanging ideas which will contribute towards the design brief of the centre’s future development.

Register your interest now by visiting the AA’s website.

Image: AA Vsiting School Las Pozasby Carlos Matos and Umberto Bellardi Ricci.