BEng (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Engineering Bachelor's degree at UWE Bristol

You'll explore foundational architectural design through analogue techniques like hand-drawing and physical model-making, emphasising iterative processes, spatial awareness, materiality, and contextual responsiveness for design development.

You'll be challenged to design a small building that engages meaningfully with its environment, users, and community. Integrating analogue and digital techniques to develop human-centric architectural proposals.

You'll examine the foundational principles of architectural history and cultural contexts that shape our built environment, exploring the interplay between architecture, events, society, and diverse cultural perspectives.

You'll learn the foundation principles of architectural practice and digital representation, exploring professional responsibilities, ethics, and software for effective architectural communication.

You'll explore construction materials and internal building environments. Through practical experiments, you'll assess environmental factors like light, acoustics, air quality, ventilation, thermal comfort and heat flow.

You'll explore housing design principles and practices, addressing socio-political, environmental, and cultural contexts through typological variety, spatial adaptability, and user-centred approaches.

You'll explore passive design principles to reduce energy consumption and enhance the comfort and sustainability of buildings, learning to build climate-responsive strategies into architectural design.

You'll develop a comprehensive understanding of sound principles, room acoustics, noise control and acoustic design in buildings, gaining the skills and know-how needed to design acoustically efficient buildings.

This module emphasises the development of technical proficiency alongside teamwork and real-world application. You'll explore professional standards, including sustainability, health and safety, and regulatory compliance, aligning your learning with industry workflows and the RIBA Plan of Work.

Building on the foundational principles introduced in earlier years, this module extends your knowledge of architectural history and theory while emphasising the cultural, political, and technological forces that have shaped contemporary practice.

You'll explore the design, analysis and sizing of mechanical and electrical building services, integrating engineering principles, mathematics and physical systems understanding to meet environmental performance requirements.

You'll develop your architectural design skills through a principal project set in an international context, exploring design practices across diverse cultures, climates and collaborative settings.

You'll integrate architectural design, building services and environmental considerations to develop and strengthen your professional and academic competencies, exploring how to critically evaluate and apply complex architectural and engineering theories.

You'll cover the key areas of zero carbon building design, from lifecycle assessment techniques to reduce the industry's footprint, to dynamic energy simulation and emerging energy technologies.

You'll carry out an independent research project into a subject that combines your individual interests with your professional ambitions. You'll connect theory with practice, exploring architectural, cultural and technological challenges.

You'll explore energy management in buildings, with a focus on industry structure, safety regulations and market dynamics. You'll also look at energy improvement retrofits, emphasising energy efficiency and renewable integration.

You'll prepare for architectural practice by exploring ethical principles, statutory requirements, and practice management strategies, developing your professional identity and vital employability skills.

You'll focus on how we interact with buildings, exploring design principles - including the cognitive and physical aspects of user movement - that improve a building's functionality and its user experience.

By integrating architectural design and environmental engineering, you'll respond to a thematic brief, addressing global and local issues. This final project fosters and showcases creativity, innovative design and technical expertise.

You'll explore advanced concepts in building services engineering, with a practical focus on innovative heating, cooling and refrigeration systems, applying mathematical techniques for energy-efficient design and performance analysis.