Courses

This course offers students a hands-on and experimental approach for a greater integration of  Environmental &Technical Studies with the First Year design portfolio.

This course offers a hands-on and experimental approach for a greater integration of Technical Studies with the First Year design portfolio.

This course offers students a hands-on and experimental approach for a greater integration of  Environmental &Technical Studies with the First Year design portfolio.

This course introduces students to the three core TS branches (structures, environment and materials) and shows they are not separate realities but different lenses for looking at the built environ

This course aims to show how every decision architects make has an immediate and quantifiable impact in terms of the environment of the buildings we inhabit.

This course aims to show how every decision architects make has an immediate and quantifiable impact in terms of the environment of the buildings we inhabit.

This course will conduct an investigation of a range of materials used in contemporary structures including concrete, timber, brick and blocks, glass, fabrics and composites.

This course forms the basis for understanding how the behaviour of a structural affects architectural design.

Third Year students undertake a comprehensive design study, exploring and resolving the central technical issues of their projects alongside individual unit agendas.

This series of masterclasses builds upon the understanding of structural, environmental and material behaviour.

The ways of creativity are inscrutable and many times confront students with questions that defy conventions.

Sound is part of the environment around us.

Can you think of the thermal comfort you feel in St-Paul’s cathedral?

As computation and technology becomes easier to access, using these tools and developing bespoke computational solutions for design and make is becoming widely used in practice however their uses v

Why do some buildings give you everything you want but seem so effortless?

Under current regulations and quest for standardisation, the ruling model for sourcing materials in Architecture relies heavily on virgin materials travelling vast distances to feed an industry whe

There is an ongoing fascination with the tall and super tall buildings that define the evolving skylines of the world’s major cities.

Light animates and reveals architecture.

Article 7 of the Paris Agreement acknowledges that the adaptation of indigenous technologies to modern use is key in achieving long-term climate-change solutions and that this adaptation should be

All materials specified by architects embody a complex system of resource extraction, transport, assembly, in-use operation, disassembly and disposal.

Different materials prefer different structural forms; it is how we achieve such elegantly thin domes and such light and strong bridges.

Structures are complex systems providing strength, stiffness and stability to buildings.

Digital Fabrication (DF) entered the realm of Architecture in the late 90’s and has since become an intrinsic part of the discipline and its everyday modes of making.

Since mankind deserted caves the primary concern of man-made structures has been shelter and protection from the environment.

The Technical Design Thesis is a substantial individual work developed under the guidance of Javier Castañón and the Diploma TS staff.