The Master in Ecological Architecture & Advanced Construction postgraduate program is a 9-month immersive academic program focused on learning how to design and build a new generation of buildings and cities to respond to the planet’s emerging climate challenges.
The program is carried out in Valldaura Labs, in Barcelona, a 135 He property located in the Collserola forest. Here, students will live and work surrounded by nature while using the most advanced technologies and design techniques in the pursuit of what is also IAAC’s long term initiative, to create self-sufficient and ecological environments.
The programme is structured in three interrelated phases: The first phase of the programme will take place during the first two months in which students will take a series of workshops and seminars.
The second phase spans three months, during which students develop a project for an urban ecological building, integrating all layers of the design while exploring industrialized construction methods, prefabrication strategies, and structural Systems.
The second phase spans three months, during which students develop a project for an urban ecological building, integrating all layers of the design while exploring industrialized construction methods, prefabrication strategies, and structural Systems.
PROGRAMME PRINCIPLES
- Immersive Education: This programme offers a unique immersive education experience at Valldaura Labs. Sleeping, eating, socialising, studying, prototyping, designing, and building all happens at this unique location.
- Learning by Doing: Students learn based on their own experience and through hands-on building full-scale prototypes. This programme is fundamentally hands-on with an emphasis on professional expertise. Every year of the programme students will build a 1:1 building prototype.
- Multidisciplinary Education: Students will have access to courses and workshops from all disciplines around buildings.
- Connected Education: Students collaborate with other academic design centres and institutions that are developing similar projects.
- Recording Process: Each student registers and documents all the knowledge generated by the programme in a unique and open online platform.
International community: This programme is oriented towards students both from mature economies, such as Europe or North America, as well as emergent economies such as China, India or Latin America.
