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WSA On Display 2020

WSA On Display 2020

  • Part I – BSc
    • Year 3
      • Unit 01: Alternative Arrangements
      • Unit 02: The Frontier Town
      • Unit 03: Freshwater and Limits
      • Unit 04: The Productive City
      • Unit 05: Reconfiguring Public Space
      • Unit 06: Blitz
      • Unit 07: Rural
      • Unit 08: Love For One’s Own Home
      • Unit 09: Let the Tide do the Work: A Peoples Palace
      • Unit 10: Grow
      • Unit 11: Archiving Place
      • Unit 12: Zen Dojo
    • Year 2
      • Butetown: Library And Third Space
      • City Centre: School Of Design
      • City Road: Youth Centre
      • Llandaff: Fine Art Gallery
      • Penarth: Respite Centre
      • Pontypridd: Performance Space
    • Year 1
      • Within
      • Beyond
    • Vertical Studio
  • Part II – M.Arch
    • M. Arch Year 2
      • XI Infrastructure Urbanism
      • XII Value
      • XIII Liveable Urbanism
      • XIV Environmental Imagination
      • XIX Growing Structures
      • XV Local Adaptation
      • XVI Craft
      • XVII Verticality
      • XVIII 1.5 degrees
      • XX Designing Histories
    • M. Arch Year I
      • Design in Practice
      • Reflective Practice
  • Masters Programmes
    • MA Architectural Design
      • Unit A – EMUVE Palermo 2020 refugees and migrants
      • Unit B – Synergetic landscapes
      • Unit C – Circular landscapes
      • Unit D – Questioning the Ambivalence of Urban Commons
      • Design Workshops
      • MA AD Lecture Series
    • MA Urban Design
      • Gentrification: Cardiff
      • Community: East London
      • Learning at MA UD
    • MSc Computational Methods in Architecture
    • MSc Sustainable Building Conservation
      • About the course
      • Part A – Whitchurch Hospital Studies
      • Part B – Whitchurch Hospital Proposals
    • MSc Environmental Design of Buildings
    • MSc Sustainable Mega Buildings
      • About the Course
      • Sustainable Service Systems for Mega Buildings
      • Sustainable-Mega Buildings Design
  • PhD/M.Phil Research
    • International Research Community
  • The Curation Process

Sustainable-Mega Buildings Design

The module aims to provide students with the opportunity of testing out their ability to apply theory to practice and learning the skills involved in exploring the design of mega-buildings in their context. The taught modules that run in parallel are core modules shared with other degree programmes along with the two specialist modules. Another aim of the module is to channel the understanding and skills that students gain from their specialist modules into specific problems that call on the approach adopted in their specialist area of study; sustainable mega-building design.

“This module gave me a brighter idea about the topic of sustainability, especially since it challenges you to critically think about designing a functionally sustainable high-rise building in order to serve not only itself and its users but also its surrounding. One of the most useful and important aspects of this module was having guest speakers and specialists, giving us a broader knowledge about the concept of sustainability within their own areas of expertise to show us the several perspectives and fields leading eventually to one common purpose.”
– Ragheb Salameh, MSc Sustainable Mega-Buildings

“The design module for me was one of the most interesting modules in the course. I got an opportunity to visit a mega structure in the city of London to understand the philosophy behind it’s design and the complexity behind planning of it’s services. Giving us an opportunity to eventually take the learning from the site visits and other modules into a design project that involved the planning and simulation of the results to optimize the performance of a mega structure making it more sustainable.”
– Saurabh Atul Shah, MSc Sustainable Mega-Buildings

Phase I – Site Analysis

In Phase 1 of the project, students worked in a group and performed…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Phase II – Passive Design

The aim of Phase 2 of the project was for each student to…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Phase III – Optimisation of Building Services

Phase three concerns the optimisation of the integration of services to meet any…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020
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