Specialisations

Architecture & Dwelling

Architecture and Dwelling is concerned with the architectural design of our everyday living environment and housing, while focusing on new, emergent concepts of dwelling. It investigates conditions of density, programmatic diversity and contemporary lifestyles.

Architectural Engineering

Architectural Engineering focuses on the integrated approach of all Building Technology disciplines, the results of the findings (both in research and design) and the way they influence the elaboration and realisation of an architectural design.

Architecture and Public Building

Architecture and Public Building focuses on the impact that the processes of modernisation and change have had on the design of public buildings and on the understanding of the public realm. The Public Building programme offers a panoply of research and design methods , both conventional and experimental, in order to develop adequate strategies and designs. The Public Realm studio addresses the relationship between public buildings and urban life. The Border Conditions & Terristories studio focuses on experimental architecture in socio-political contexts.

Complex Projects

Cities are increasingly renewed by large projects rather than by long-term visions and subsequent master planning. Public-private partnerships are organized to engage strategic sites resulting in complex developments. The developments are comprised of multiple and often conflicting interest, which have to be simultaneously negotiated. The traditional tools of architecture and urban planning are simply not equipped to deal with the conditions that arise. This critical condition will be the focus of 'Complex Projects'.

Future Cities (by The Why Factory)

Future Cities (by The Why Factory) explore the future of urban life. Based on current and upcoming urban urgencies the students make spatial scenarios for the city of the future. The master studios form an integral part of the Why Factory’s on-going research. Argumentation, parameterization and visualisation lead to visionary designs, including object, building and urban scale.

The Architecture of the Interior

The Architecture of the Interior considers the design, contexts and users of large-scale complex interiors; those enclosed spaces and environments that can be regarded as part of the public realm in contemporary life. The emphasis of the course is the culture of the public interior, its dynamics, uses, architecture and sustainability.

Methods and Analysis

Architecture, more than a response to program or problem solving, is about the development of distinct approaches and tools. The studio ‘Ways of Doing’ aims to develop and assess distinct methods that allow for innovative way of analysis, architectural design, and spatial intervention in the challenging reality of the Dutch Westland, the surreal agricultural but industrial area between The Hague and the port of Rotterdam, sometimes called the glazed city.

Non-standard and Interactive Architecture (by Hyperbody)

Non-standard and Interactive Architecture focuses on the integration of advanced computational design tools and techniques with cutting edge design thinking in order to produce fully performance driven bottom-up architectural formations. As opposed to modernist mass-production principles, non-standard design and interactive architecture thus illustrate the advantages of mass-customization and topological thinking coupled together with real-time adaptation of building components and spaces to respond to dynamic environmental and societal needs.

Non-Residential Building

Non-Residential Building aims for integral design concepts and resolutions, where spatial qualities meet social, ecological and economic qualities of a sustainable nature. The non-residential architect possesses orientation towards artefacts, contexts, systems, images and procedures, and researches the typological, compositional and tectonic principles that underlie complex non-residential (office -, school -, health care -, commercial) buildings in urban and non-urban settings. 

Restoration, Modification, Intervention and Transformation (by RMIT)

Restoration, Modification, Intervention and Transformation (by RMIT) focuses on the contemporary demands for continuity and change that architects face in architecture and construction of existing structures. Students learn to develop preconditions for re-use, and how to make a design for transformation that meets aesthetic, cultural historical, technical and functional demands..

Explorelab

Explore Lab is a laboratory for students with a particular and/or special interest that cannot be explored in any of the ‘regular’ thesis labs. This opportunity is only for highly motivated students with a nearly ‘obsessive’ interest in a specific question and an exceptional ability to lead themselves and others in theoretical and design research. Explore lab is open for students from all tracks, including free (theoretical) master.

Delta Interventions

Delta Interventions studies the changing relationships between cities and landscapes and the rise of new typ es of patterns in the urbanised delta. The aim is to develop relevant designs, concepts and methods for the composition of future urban landscapes.

Design as Politics

sign as Politics deals with the role of city politics, urbanism and architecture. Ultimately the studio is not just about making a spatial design, but also about developing a strategy in which the design is used to reach goals set beforehand.

Veldacademie

Many districts in European cities face complex social-economical issues and degeneration. Making a design for a regeneration area demands a deep understanding of this complexity. This studio is situated in one of Rotterdam’s regeneration area’s on the south bank.

Vertical Cities Asia

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