MEng (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Design Integrated Master's degree at the University of Nottingham

This studio-based module introduces you to basic design, drafting, model making and drawing skills. There are two dedicated days of studio tutorials per week. The semester finishes with the design of a small building that will test your understanding and application of the knowledge gained on this module.

This module introduces you to the principle of a holistic and integrated approach to building design. Firstly, you'll learn about the notion of thinking architecture, the fundamental principles of design and drawing skills and typologies as key areas of study. Then you'll focus on methodology and approaches relevant to the studio comprehensive design project with a more intensified examination of topics such as light, narrative and sustainability.

This module introduces you to the technology, materials and techniques used in constructing buildings. It aims to help you understand how these elements form an integral part of the design process. Through two-hour weekly lectures you'll conduct practical structural modelling exercises. This will help you develop a basic understanding of the qualitative behaviour of structures and the interaction between structural form and the loads that they are required to support.

This module offers you an introduction to the history of architecture from ancient times to the present day. A two-hour weekly lecture aims to familiarise you with major architectural typologies and the social and technological changes that brought them into being.

This studio-based module develops your basic design, drafting, model making and drawing skills. Through the two dedicated days of studio tutorials per week, you will be introduced to historical precedents and computer-aided drawing programmes. These exercises will feed into a small comprehensive design project of a public building.

Explore how mathematics underpins engineering design. You'll draw on real engineering problems in areas such as structural analysis, heat transfer systems and fluid mechanics and explore the mathematical methods you can use to solve these problems. After consolidating key A level concepts, you'll progress to topics including complex numbers, single variable calculus and methods for solving systems of equations. The focus is on developing confidence and fluency, so you can apply mathematics as a

Build on the foundations of Mathematical Methods for the Built Environment 1. You'll draw on real engineering problems in areas such as control systems, heat transfer and fluid mechanics and explore the mathematical methods you can use to solve these problems. The module progresses from A level concepts and previous modules to topics such as vector calculus, multi-variable calculus and further matrix methods. The focus is on developing confidence and fluency, so you can apply mathematics as a pr

Following on from the key principles introduced in the year one module, Integrated Design in Architecture, you'll further develop your communication and research skills which will underpin your work in both the theorisation and practise of architecture. Through one-hour weekly lectures you'll explore the research methodologies and skills needed to identify and synthesise relevant and accurate information as well visual communication skills focusing on geometrical modelling programs, where skills

Dealing with small to medium-scale buildings, you'll build on knowledge acquired in Tectonics 1, focusing on structural systems, building elements, material, components, connections, construction methods and detailing. During a two-hour lecture each week, you'll learn how constituent parts come together to construct building entities through investigation and analysis of structural principles, detail, material composition and performance of primary building elements.

Building on Level 1 design modules, you'll be introduced to engineering concepts that inform and enrich the environmental performance of buildings. You'll cover the fundamentals of fluid mechanics (fluid properties, hydrostatics, fluid dynamics) and then explore some of these through the analysis of flow through piped water systems and the design of hot and cold water services. You'll spend around three to four hours in lectures and workshops studying for this module.

This module gives you an introduction to the environmental services systems common to many simple buildings. Developing awareness of the systems, through eight hours per week of practical workshops and lectures, you'll be introduced to the techniques used to select and size systems, explores issues associated with the integration of these systems and be given an opportunity to practise the fundamental skills used by system installers.

This course provides a historical, cultural and philosophical context to the major contemporary debates in architecture today. You'll gain understanding of architecture's potential as a practically useful and culturally meaningful activity. Key issues from the history of philosophy will be examined alongside a range of building case-studies. This will enable you to develop a series of alternative interpretive frameworks through which buildings may be analysed, criticised, debated and understood.

This module focuses on developing your practical architectural design skills and exploring the relevance of related subjects, such as structure and construction. The emphasis is given to the 'craftsmanship of architecture', improving the spatial, aesthetic and sensual, as well as practical, structural and dimensional qualities of your design. You'll learn how to translate an abstract idea into a form with a positive physical presence. The units are organised into five thematic blocks: Urban Sett