Building Technology

In MSc1 you deep 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.

Visit the study guide for more information about the courses of the first two quarters.

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.

For international students, enrolment for the first two quarters is automatically arranged by the Faculty's Education and Student Affairs. All other students need to enroll for courses offered in Q1 to Q4 themselves. They are informed by email and through Brightspace by the faculty's enrolment team about the enrolment procedure prior to the start of the enrolment periods in each Spring and Autumn.

Please note that the Solar Decathlon Design course is not offered every year and has a different registration procedure. Students need to apply with a motivation which is explained in the Study Guide in case the course is offered.

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.

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

In the first two quarters of the first-year students join the compulsory courses of the track.
Q1+2:    AR1B011
Q1:        AR1B022 + AR1B023
Q2:        AR1B032 + AR1B024

Visit the study guide for more information about the courses of the first two quarters.

In the third quarter of the first year students enroll for two 5 EC so-called ‘Technoledge courses’ (from academic year 2024-2025 these are called Building Technology electives), and for a third 5 EC course of their own free choice. This could be a third Technoledge course, but students are also free to choose other courses.

During an information meeting, which is scheduled in the second quarter just prior to the enrolment period for the Spring semester, the Technoledge courses on offer are explained. Afterwards, presentations are available on Brightspace, in the course MSc AUBS Track Building Technology (enrol to view). For the 5 EC free choice also electives of other TU Delft master's programmes as well as master courses of other universities are considered possible as long as the 5 EC is obtained while enrolled as a master track Building Technology student at TU Delft.

In the fourth quarter of the first year students enrol for one of the 15 EC courses (from academic year 2024-2025 these are called (intra)disciplinary electives). 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.

During an information meeting, which is scheduled in the second quarter just prior to the enrolment period for the Spring semester, the design courses the track offers are explained. Afterwards presentations are available on Brightspace, in the course MSc AUBS Track Building Technology (enrol to view).

For international students, enrolment for the first two quarters is automatically arranged by the Faculty's Education and Student Affairs. All other students need to enroll for courses offered in Q1 to Q4 themselves. They are informed by email and through Brightspace by the faculty's enrolment team about the enrolment procedure prior to the start of the enrolment periods in each Spring and Autumn.

Please note that the Solar Decathlon Design course is not offered every year and has a different registration procedure. Students need to apply with a motivation which is explained in the Study Guide in case the course is offered.

In the first quarter of the second-year students enrol for one of the 15 EC design studios. We offer two options to choose from: User-centred Sustainability Studio or CORE. 

During an information meeting, which is scheduled in the third quarter just prior to the enrolment period for the autumn semester, the design courses we offer are explained. Afterwards presentations are available on Bright Space, in the course MSc AUBS Track Building Technology (enroll to view).

Graduation takes place in the Building Technology Graduation Studio. The possible graduation topics are explained in an information meeting usually in the first week(s) of the first quarter in September, also the procedure will be explained on this meeting. The topics as well as a studio manual (with the procedure) will be placed on Brightspace.

During the fourth quarter of the first year, students enrol for the MSc3 quarter 5 and 6 courses for the autumn (or spring when starting the MSc3 in February) semester of the second year. Students should enroll for both, the quarter 5 design studio and for the graduation studio. Students are informed by an email of student affairs about the enrolment period and procedure.

Enrolment for the continuation of the graduation in MSc4 will be automatically after a successful P2 presentation of the graduation project at the end of the MSc3 semester.