Design 3: Transforming Places

Design 3: Transforming Places

This module explores contemporary concerns relevant to architectural culture, within a given context with the potential for transformation. This module addresses global issues relating to architecture through the medium of a small to medium site within a local context to consolidate previously acquired skills and knowledge.

Architectural Integration

Architectural Integration

This module emphasises your own design abilities integrating technology and environment, and the ethical and moral implications related to practice, providing a holistic approach to architectural production that links technological performance with social awareness. You will deepen your knowledge and understanding of the environmental, material, and technological contexts, while increasing your cognitive understanding of the basic principles of ethical planning and building.

Design 4: Activating Places

Design 4: Activating Places

This module gives you an opportunity to deal with issues of global concern, by adding a more overtly client and thematic overlay to tectonically-driven studies of built form. This module provides you with an opportunity to approach a site that is less constrained by physical context and invites you to explore design through alternative modes of thinking, such as spatial agency or other theoretically-driven approaches with the aim of activating a multi-layered built environment.

Architectural Ecosystems

Architectural Ecosystems

This module expands your focus towards a pragmatic approach to architectural objects and the city, looking at networks (of people and things) that constitute the built environment and beyond, looking at the wider responsibilities of architecture within the sphere of urban studies and with a specific focus on sustainable environmental technologies (passive and active) and considers the design implications of climate emergency. It also looks at a wide range of urban artefacts and develops new methods of understanding their complexity, and the impact beyond the bounds of its own sites.