Architecture and Extreme Environments

Welcome to a programme which aims to make a positive impact on our challenged world, through experimentation, artistic exploration and with consideration to site and local culture. Through a site-specific approach, this Master aims to respond to present and future global challenges through research by design, fine-tuned site-specific strategies and active fieldwork to remote world locations where 1:1 architectural prototypes are put to the test to inform and innovate building design at home and abroad. The course engages with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and was awarded by the UIA the international prize for the most Innovative Architecture Master Programme in 2022.

It is our intention in to investigate the artistic potential of working with technology not only as a pragmatic orientated design parameter, but also as a process charged with proactive possibilities, aesthetic potential and cultural sensibility, from building to detail. 

For 2023, the year focus and four week fieldwork will be Jaipur, Rajastan in India, in close collaboration with Dark Matter Labs and Dhun life project in Jaipur.