Projects and designs from students in our postgraduate MArch courses.
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Design Studio Units 2023-24
AUTUMN
- Sustainable Design I: Nature Reserve and Centre, Attenborough
- Urban Design I: Hybrid Spaces of Negotiation, Sevilla
- Vertical Communities I: Mixed Use Living, Islington
- Design + Build I: Matshela Creche
SPRING
- Sustainable Design II: Sustainable Optimised Urban Living, Toton
- Urban Design II: New Urban Communities, Island Quarter
- Vertical Communities II: New Industrial Manufacturing, Islington
- Design + Build II
MArch Architecture and Sustainable Design
The MArch Architecture and Sustainable Design master’s programme is designed to equip postgraduate students, practitioners in architecture and building industry professionals with the necessary skills to integrate environmental design principles from an early stage in the design process, enabling the delivery of truly sustainable buildings.
The course builds on a unique project-based approach to support the application of the social, environmental and technological aspects of sustainable architecture, taught in complementary modules, in equal measures in creative studio design projects. Topics covered include human comfort, energy efficiency, carbon management and urban regeneration, and students also learn a range of tools to assess and evolve their designs.
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Sustainable Design Studio
Student projects from the Sustainable Design units in the MArch Architecture and Sustainable Design course.
MArch Advanced Architecture Design
The MArch Advanced Architecture Design programme focuses on the development and application of specialist architectural knowledge and advanced design techniques and technologies. The programme responds to the increasing competition in the professional procurement of buildings and the growing demand for specialist knowledge and skills in the pursuit of architectural excellence.
This programme offers students the opportunity to concentrate on architectural or urban design, humanities, environmental design and technology to a high level of sophistication without the need to work within a single specialist area. Design-led, this enables students to develop and apply specialist architectural knowledge and advanced architectural design techniques to enhance their professional knowledge and skills.
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Vertical Communities Studio
Student projects from the Vertical Communities units in the MArch Advanced Architecture Design course.
MArch Sustainable Urban Design
The MArch Sustainable Urban Design programme focuses on the design of the public and urban areas and the interactions of them with built environments. The programme is designed to enable graduates to enhance the quality of cities around the world by bringing innovative design into a new relationship with the latest research. Modules focus on the structure of urban form, the way that cities function, and how people use them in order to create urban places that respond to the major opportunities and challenges facing society. Addressing an ecological vision of the urban realms, across scales and species, in which society assumes its niche, and biodiversity is relaunched, is also one of the main principles.
The programme covers all of the areas required of an urban designer in contemporary practice, including: public and urban design theory and practice; urban regeneration; sustainable urbanism theory and applications; and urban policy. This enables the programme to impart the knowledge and to develop the necessary skills to face the contemporary cultural, historical, social, economic, and environmental challenges in terms of achieving holistic sustainability in cities around the World.
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Sustainable Urban Design group projects
Student group projects from the MArch Sustainable Design course.
MArch Architecture Design+Build
The MArch Architecture Design and Build programme focuses on the relationships between design and the physical creation of space. Our programme will explore the nature of making and production as they relate to architectural design and practice.
The programme is designed to ensure that students have the opportunity to learn about architecture by making, to understand materials through hands-on exploration in their application, and ultimately to develop a critical response to the implications of design decisions on people and places.
Within the programme, you will be able to develop design ideas at 1:1 scale and the integration with architecture students from varying backgrounds and experience levels. This also involves working on your own project with our design build studio.
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