BA2 Technologies is a 30-credit module representing a critical juncture in the undergraduate journey, the year in which students are expected to move decisively from the acquisition of foundational knowledge towards its confident and purposeful application. Building on the analytical groundwork laid in BA1, the module demands a shift in register: from dissection to synthesis, from observation to proposition.
The curriculum is structured around three substantive areas of enquiry Construction, Environmental Design and Retrofit, each explored through lectures, case studies and directed assignments. Taken together, these strands equip students with the critical apparatus to interrogate built precedent with rigour and operational intent. Architecture's realised history is treated not as background context, but as a living technical resource; one to be read, challenged and drawn upon in the service of informed design decision-making.
These threads are brought into productive resolution through the Integrated Design Project, in which students deploy their studio project as the primary vehicle for technological development. This is, deliberately, where technical rigour is not a constraint imposed upon design thinking, but a discipline that runs through it. Students are required to hold both in tension, testing the credibility of their proposals against genuine constructional, environmental and material criteria.
By the close of the year, students demonstrate a measurably expanded repertoire of concepts, methods and applications, and a growing capacity to answer, with both confidence and evidence, that most fundamental of architectural questions: How do I do this?
