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Master’s Programme

Architecture and Extreme Environments

Salt cristal pollution cleaning shelter, Lanzhou, China
Water treatment center, Manaus, Brazil
Dealing with habitation and Malaria mosquitoes in the Amazon
Frozen textile structures in the Arctic, Svalbard
Subterranean research laboratories, Svalbard
Biological wall for temperature control, Manaus, Brazil
Bus terminal and biological symbiosis in Manaus, Brazil
Flood proof ferry terminal, Manaus - Brazil
Testing recycled plastic insulation system, Iceland
Technological critial pier, Manaus, Brazil

About Architecture and Extreme Environments

Welcome to a programme which aims to make a positive impact on our challenged world, through experimentation, artistic exploration and with consideration to site and local culture. Through a site-specific approach, this Master aims to respond to present and future global challenges through research by design, fine-tuned site-specific strategies and active fieldwork to remote world locations where 1:1 architectural prototypes are put to the test to inform and innovate building design at home and abroad. The course engages with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and was awarded by the UIA the international prize for the most Innovative Architecture Master Programme in 2022.

It is our intention in to investigate the artistic potential of working with technology not only as a pragmatic orientated design parameter, but also as a process charged with proactive possibilities, aesthetic potential and cultural sensibility, from building to detail. 

For 2023, the year focus and four week fieldwork will be Jaipur, Rajastan in India, in close collaboration with Dark Matter Labs and Dhun life project in Jaipur.

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On our YouTube channel you can see a selection of videos from our different projects in Amazonas, the Gobi desert, Tanzania and Alaska. 

Graduation projects from Architecture and Extreme Environments

KADK, Architecture and Extreme Environments "THE ARCTIC" Trailer 2014/15
The Arctic
Chilling with Plants
The Amazon

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