21 monthsProgramme duration
40,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Architecture and Built Environment
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Biotechnology, computation and climate change are reshaping how we design, build and live. Bio-Integrated Design MSc responds to these shifts through exploratory biological research and experimentation, developing new biomaterials and regenerative ecologies for future built environments. Nature sits at the centre of the course, not only as inspiration but as an active agent in the design process.
You work across the lab, studio and workshop, building skills in experimental design, computational modelling, and manufacturing. In research-led modules, you learn to grow and test living systems, design with bio-based materials, and use techniques in simulation, fabrication and data analysis. Through an iterative design-build-test process, you develop prototypes that explore how biological processes can inform materials, environmental systems and built environment applications.
You also develop advanced research skills, enabling you to define and pursue your own area of specialisation. The course culminates in an integrated research project, where you carry out in-depth experimentation and produce an original output combining scientific investigation, empirical testing and design development.
The extended 21-month course provides you with the time to study an interdisciplinary combination of laboratory work, detailed research and design development, while developing a deeper specialism in your chosen area.
Two Bio-Integrated Design graduate courses are available: an MSc and an MArch. The MSc is science-focused, with an emphasis on process design spanning laboratory research, ecological measurement, computational modelling and biofabrication. The Bio-Integrated Design MArch is design-led, centred on architectural innovation, design simulation and creative exploration. The two courses are taught together, giving you the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams on ambitious group projects that reflect the range of skills within bio-integrated design.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Architecture and Built Environment
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Biotechnology, computation and climate change are reshaping how we design, build and live. Bio-Integrated Design MSc responds to these shifts through exploratory biological research and experimentation, developing new biomaterials and regenerative ecologies for future built environments. Nature sits at the centre of the course, not only as inspiration but as an active agent in the design process.
You work across the lab, studio and workshop, building skills in experimental design, computational modelling, and manufacturing. In research-led modules, you learn to grow and test living systems, design with bio-based materials, and use techniques in simulation, fabrication and data analysis. Through an iterative design-build-test process, you develop prototypes that explore how biological processes can inform materials, environmental systems and built environment applications.
You also develop advanced research skills, enabling you to define and pursue your own area of specialisation. The course culminates in an integrated research project, where you carry out in-depth experimentation and produce an original output combining scientific investigation, empirical testing and design development.
The extended 21-month course provides you with the time to study an interdisciplinary combination of laboratory work, detailed research and design development, while developing a deeper specialism in your chosen area.
Two Bio-Integrated Design graduate courses are available: an MSc and an MArch. The MSc is science-focused, with an emphasis on process design spanning laboratory research, ecological measurement, computational modelling and biofabrication. The Bio-Integrated Design MArch is design-led, centred on architectural innovation, design simulation and creative exploration. The two courses are taught together, giving you the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams on ambitious group projects that reflect the range of skills within bio-integrated design.
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