- Degree
- Master of Science – MSc
- Course location
- Hamburg
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- All classes of this programme are held in the English language.
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Application deadline
- Applicants with a non-German university degree have to apply via uni-assist and the ahoi application portal of the HafenCity University.
First step:
You can submit your application at uni-assist starting from 1 March each year for the following winter semester. Uni-assist needs up to six weeks for checking the certificates. Therefore, we recommend that applicants submit the documents at uni-assist early enough to keep the application deadline of the HCU in our ahoi portal, which is 1 July for the following winter semester.
Second step:
In addition, all applicants have to apply directly at HCU via the ahoi online application portal (1 June – 1 July): www.ahoi.hcu-hamburg.de (http://www.ahoi.hcu-hamburg.de)
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The Master of Science degree programme "Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning" (REAP) is an international and interdisciplinary study programme at the HafenCity University of Hamburg. It aims to enable participants to promote sustainable development on an urban level in different geographical and cultural settings.
The main emphasis of the Master's programme REAP lies on technology for the provision of urban and building services, yet it also investigates the socio-economic context in which these services are provided and managed.
In detail, the programme:
• provides an overview of the complex relationships between building and urban services technology (i.e. building construction and renovation, energy and water supply, waste and waste water management) and the environment (i.e. resources and space consumption, impacts on environmental media and ecosystems)
• gives insight into patterns of user demand and behaviour and how they affect the technology-environment interaction
• imparts knowledge of resource-efficient technologies, e.g. energy generation from renewable sources, as well as underlying principles, such as source separation and the closing of material cycles, demand side management, decentralised, modularised service provision, etc.
• reviews experience with and conveys ideas for different forms of legal and economic organisation of planning, construction and urban services provision
• teaches study and research methods and techniques for planning and decision support
With this programme, the HCU targets people from all over the world with a wide range of academic backgrounds and work experience, sharing an interest in technology and society and a concern for urban life. As such, the programme does not require expertise in architecture or engineering nor does it award a professional degree in architecture, urban planning or civil engineering.
REAP covers the following areas:
• Sustainability
• Water, material and energy cycles in the city
• Resource efficient urban technologies and infrastructure
• Economics and administration of buildings and urban services
• Legal and policy instruments
• Urban planning on different scales: building (1:10–1:100), neighbourhood (1:500–1: 5,000) and city (1:10,000–1:100,000) scale and regarding the specific geographical and cultural context
• Skills development: dimensioning, perception, assessment and decision making in the field of sustainable resource technologies
• Research methods and decision support techniques
REAP is not:
• an architectural design course
• focused on a single discipline – it is interdisciplinary and follows an integrative and multidimensional planning approach
The Master's programme consists of 17 study modules taught over two academic years.