MSc 3/4 Graduation Studios

Tall Building Design (TALL) 30 ects

Strategic Architectural Design Development (SADD) 30 ects

Tall Building Design (TALL)

Greater numbers of people worldwide are migrating to cities. TALL is an urgent reality, also in the Netherlands!

The development and architecture of High-rise and Tall buildings are at the center of attention in the current architectural discourse. This discourse addresses major concerns in our society; for example, the land scarcity in metropolitan areas and its high value, the need for intensifying land use in order to contribute to sustainable development, as well as the need and ambition to concentrate urban centers in order to revitalize and prepare them for the century to come. The design project will be a TALL building in the Station area in Rotterdam. The challenge is to design 240.000m2, an entire district of mixed functions, on a 16.000m2 plot of land, embedded into the existing urban pattern. 

We will work from an architectural point of view and focus on themes, such as tall typology and morphology, the relation between the plinth and the public space, compact and rational Tall Buildings, impacts on the city, and high-rise patterns in Rotterdam. The TALL studio is linked to the High Rise research program ‘De Verheffing van Rotterdam,’ carried out by our Chair. The main goal of this research program is to develop and establish a flourishing high-rise and tall-building culture based on knowledge and experience in high-rise design. We see modern urban interventions and developments in our contemporary cities increasingly driven by means of large architectural projects. Therefore, the focus for this research project will be on the juncture between urbanism and architecture.

COURSES MSc 3

TALL Design Project                              6 ects
TALL Models                                            3 ects
TALL The Future Envelope                    3 ects
Design Workshop High Rise             12 ects
Architecture and Urban Analysis          3 ects
Smart & Bioclimatic Design                  3 ects

Strategic Architectural Design Development (SADD)

Design the UN Headquarters for sustainability in New York.

The graduation lab ‘Strategic Architectural Design Development’ teaches students to work not only on the development of their ideas and a conceptual design, but also to seek strategic design input for this design development. In this graduation lab students will design the UN Headquarters for Sustainability in New York. 

The studio will continue the urban design development of Manhattan Midtown, based on the results of former studios and on the actual needs. In this way the design project has a strong relation to practice, and can thereby be an ideal bridge between your studies and the start of your architectural career.

COURSES MSc 3

SADD Design Project                                    15 ects 
The Future Envelope                                        3 ects 
Smart & Bioclimate Design                            3 ects 
Strategic Models                                               3 ects
Lecture Series Research Methods               6 ects