Programme

Academic year 2024 - 2025

First semester (MSc1)
In MSc1 you deepen your academic skills and technical knowledge through core building technology courses and the Bucky Lab design studio. This gives you the opportunity to construct your own project in a 1:1 scale.

Second semester (MSc2)
In MSc2 you can choose from electives (3 x 5 EC) offered by the Building Technology track in order to deepen you technical knowledge and skills. 

You also follow one of the 4 offered design courses: 
The courses ‘EXTREME technology’, ‘MEGA’ and ‘Heritage and Architecture Design Studio’ are projects for integrated design. The design project ‘EXTREME technology’ deals with building in an extreme situation in respect to climate, location and function. The design project ‘MEGA’ is about large buildings with engineering challenges. Essence of both courses is the interaction between the extreme circumstances and/or large sizes, the technical solutions, and the architecture. 
The ‘Heritage and Architecture Design Studio’ deals with the same engineering challenges with a focus on existing buildings. 
‘Entrepreneurship in the Built Environment’ is meant for students who want to understand how organisations in the built environment operate, how they change in time, and in what ways they can contribute to innovation. 

See below for topics covered in previous academic years:

• EXTREME technology (pdf)
• MEGA (pdf)
• Heritage and Architecture Design Studio: Research and Architectural Design (pdf)
• Entrepreneurship in the Built Environment (pdf)

In the fourth quarter you join one of the (intra)disciplinary courses in which you are challenged to work together with students from other tracks within the Master Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences on overarching themes.

Check the Study Guide for a full overview of the intradisciplinary electives available to Building Technology track students.

From September 2025 the fifth quarter (Q5) allows you to choose electives offered by or in collaboration with other TU Delft faculties, or with public or private partners. This new Q5 offers students the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience from collaborating in projects with other disciplines or challenges found outside the walls of our own faculty. More information on the electives offered in Q5 is available as from April 2025.

Graduation
In the final three quarters students develop a graduation project. The Building Technology track offers one graduation studio. The studio covers the following themes: Structural Design, Climate Design, Façade & Product Design and Design Informatics. Students graduate on a combination of (at least) two themes, in research and design.

Detailed information on the graduation studio and themes

Additional information

For detailed information on all courses, please visit the study guide.