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MSc Architecture and the Sustainable Environment

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    MSc full-time or part-time

Course Description

The MSc in Architecture and Sustainable Environment (MASE) is a taught course aimed at professionals and academics world-wide with an interest in sustainability in the built environment, including architects, engineers, geographers, surveyors, historians and urban designers.

The MSc is offered by Centre for Architecture and Sustainable Environment, a new research centre in the Kent School of Architecture and Planning (KSAP) that promotes a cross-disciplinary approach to research in the field of sustainability in the built environment, bridging the traditional boundaries between the arts and the sciences, research and practice.

The course content ranges from the development of the design skills and the technical and scientific understanding required to develop sustainable solutions for new and existing buildings, the analysis of historic buildings and past environment technologies, to a critical exploration of the historical and cultural context of sustainability and environmental design.

The course, which can be studied full-time or part-time, offers an academically rigorous and intellectually challenging learning environment, which aims to enhance career development within the field for professionals and academics. The over-arching aim of the programme is to provide participants with a systematic understanding of core and advanced areas of sustainable design through a combination of taught courses, research assignments and project work. Students will be asked to conduct rigorous technical and historical research and to explore the practical application of their findings in the context of design and technology.

Entry Requirements

A first or second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent).

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Student Destinations

You will gain knowledge and understanding of:

  • the complexity of energy performance of buildings and their occupants’ interactions
  • impact of the physical environment on the environmental and energy performance of buildings
  • fundamental concepts of building science and principles for low energy design, in relation to heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting
  • a comprehensive, critical analysis of the environmental behaviour of historic buildings and the associated environmental technologies
  • the range of techniques for analysing the environmental and energy performance of buildings
  • A holistic approach that enables development of design strategies for low energy buildings, for both new as well as retrofitting developments, that are equally culturally and environmentally sustainable.

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