Studio in the Woods was back this year – bigger and better than ever. 70 Students of architecture and makers along with 15 architects as group leaders and critics descended on Invisible Studio for a extraordinary long weekend of making. 5 groups led by Gianni Botsford, Kate Darby, Piers Taylor, Meredith Bowles, Charley Brentnall, Je Ahn, Le Ivett, Lynton Pepper, Barbara Kaucky, Susanne Tutsch, Fergus Feilden and Akos Juhasz with support from Laura Mark, Zoe Berman and Jack Hawker constructed a range of structures that explored an idea relating to the woodland in which they were located. Evening lectures were given by Niall McLaughlin, Martin Self and Robert Mull, who were then joined by Peter Clegg and Ted Cullinan for the final review. Alan Matthews, Bernard Twist, Martin Osbourne and Simon Schofield also provided much needed technical support. See HERE for more details.
Kate Darby & David Connor: AJSP Winner
We are delighted that Invisible Studio collaborators Kate Darby and David Connor have won the 2017 AJ Small Projects Award for their Croft Lodge Studio – and extraordinary creative reuse of a ruin in Herefordshire. Read story HERE
AJ Small Projects 2017
We are delighted to be on the Architects’ Journal Small Projects Awards Shortlist again this year – the 5th time since we won the award for Moonshine in 2006. This time we are on the shortlist for our Longdrop, construced for £0 from scavenged materials. We’re particularly pleased to be on the shortlist with our Studio in the Woods collaborators Gianni Botsford, Kate Darby and David Connor, all of whom have their own projects shortlisted. Kate is also a collaborator in Invisible Studio.
WSA Making Workshop (Kate Darby)
Kate Darby (co founder of the annual Studio in the Woods) brought her WSA students to the woods at Moonshine recently, for a week long making project which acted as constructed research for their final year long Diploma project. The projects were all made by the students from timber that was grown and milled on site, and each was designed to reveal an aspect of the place.
All work by:
Hannah Barnsley/ Rob Boltman/ Jonny Campbell/ Jonny Edwards Andy Furzeland/ Anna Humpston/ Ben Ludlow/ Stan Pomian-Srzednicki/ Nicola Smith/ Thomas Woodward with Kate Darby, and support from Tim Gatfield.