该计划重点关注大型高层建筑的可持续规划，设计和性能原则，并为毕业生提供出色的职业机会。低层和中层建筑的设计在一段时间内考虑了气候变化和可持续性。然而，尽管在过去的几十年中，全球范围内大型建筑的数量有所增加，但高层建筑仍被视为超大规模的能源消耗者，几乎不考虑可持续设计和性能。当前的环境议程和对全球可持续性的关注提高了大型建筑的重要性。在这一跨学科课程中，我们专注于大型建筑的可持续规划和设计原则，并为学生提供专业领域的专业知识。您将在加的夫市中心Friary House的建筑学院为研究生设计的新工作室中工作。
This programme focuses on principles of sustainable planning, design and performance of large-scale and high-rise buildings and provides graduates with excellent career opportunities. The design of low and medium-rise buildings has, for some time, taken climatic variations and sustainability into account. However, despite the increase in the number of large-scale buildings worldwide during the last few decades, high-rise buildings are still seen as mega-scale energy consumers with little regard for sustainable design and performance. The current environmental agenda and interest in sustainability across the globe raises the significance of mega-buildings. On this interdisciplinary course, we focus on the principles of sustainable planning and design of mega-buildings and prepare students to specialise professionally in this field. You will be based in the School of Architecture’s new studio for graduate students at Friary House, in Cardiff city centre. This is within 5-10 minutes’ walk of our other site, Bute Building. <br><br>Career prospects - There is currently a worldwide shortage of architects and built environment professionals specialising in the field of planning and designing mega-buildings which perform sustainably. Therefore there is a rising demand for graduates from this type of course. Typically, graduates from this course will gain employment in large-scale building design or planning companies and practices, environmental design consultancies, research and development centres, or may even set up their own companies practices. Given the current intense public, governmental and professional interest in this area, employment opportunities for graduates who specialise in this field are only likely to grow and become even more attractive both in the UK and globally.