2. 2 - ELISAVA - Master’s Degree in Design and Habitat
MASTER’S DEGREE IN
DESIGN AND HABITAT
Start date: October and March.
ECTS Credits: 60
Language: Spanish
Qualification: Master’s Degree in Design and Habitat, degree
awarded by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and ELISAVA School
of Design and Engineering of Barcelona.
Schedule: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 5 pm to 9.15 pm
The qualification of Master’s Degree in Design and Habitat is
obtained by studying:
- POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN STRATEGIC HABITAT
DESIGN: MOBILITY AND TEMPORALITY
From October to February.
- POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ECO-HABITAT.
DESIGNING ECO-EFFICIENT HOUSING
From March to July.
Programme Directors
RAFAEL BALANZÓ
Architect and landscaper. Director of the Department of Rebuilding
at ELISAVA. Member of Asociación AUS, an architecture and
sustainability association run by the Official Catalan Architect
Association. Consultant on urban sustainability projects.
RICARDO GUASCH CEBALLOS
PhD in Architecture. Academic Director at ELISAVA. Co-director of
the Master’s Degree in Interior Design at ELISAVA.
JOSEP LINARES
Building engineer. Head of the Unit for Rehabilitation and
Improvement of Dwellings of the Catalan Building Agency. Lecturer
in Building Engineering at ELISAVA.
TXATXO SABATER
PhD in Architecture. Tenured lecturer of the Architectural
Composition Department at the Vallès School of Architecture
(EAV-UPC). He is the author of the curriculum guide
“Gerohabitation, Cohabitation, Emancipation”.
Entry requirements
• Graduate in Industrial Design, Engineering, Environmental
Sciences, etc.
• Architect, architectural technician and building engineers.
• Graduate in Fine Arts.
• Professional or academic with proven experience in the fields
this course covers.
Presentation
The Master’s Degree in Design and Habitat explores the concept of
habitat in an existing built-up environment and in relation to its social,
economic and environmental context. It focuses on housing practices
from the vantage point of new sustainability and liveability demands.
Sustainability strategies for habitat –like re-design, rehabilitation,
recycling, reusing and revitalisation- are the foundation for reducing
energy demand and the emissions of the neighbourhood, building
system and the construction systems, in order to foster the regene-
ration of social cohesion and the improvement of habitability both in
the interior of houses as in urban space in the Mediterranean urban
fabrics, like the city of Barcelona.
The main goal of the Postgraduate Diploma in Ecohabitat will reveal
the large variety of evaluation tools for urban sustainability from a
systemic approach, from the neighbourhoods and the urban space, to
the constructive systems, building materials and flows of the building,
as well as redefining the building typology in close cooperation and
participation with the users.
In this regard, housing organisations are diversifying given individuals’
increasing mobility and also the changing circumstances arising from
the complexity of the various life stages. In this sense the contents of
the Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Habitat Design: Mobility and
Temporality includes a review of experimental projects which, with
an innovative and adaptive component, have grown to adjust to new
societal patterns.
The main objective is thus to achieve technical and programmatic
expertise to launch new residential projects such as housing with ser-
vices, supervised apartments, shared (host and shared) apartments,
house-factories, temporary and emergency housing as well as the
new field of low-cost, themed and holiday hotels.
Objectives
• Train professionals with up-to-date knowledge of this subject, who
contribute creativity and specialist technical knowledge in response
to the demands of increasingly diversified forms of housing.
• Provide designers with the tools they need to provide answers and
make appropriate proposals in response to the complex problems
of housing in all versions related to mobility and temporariness.
Learn basic knowledge, both theoretical and practical, structured
around a sustainable habitat at different scales, such as the city and
the district, buildings and ecological restoration, materials and buil-
ding systems. This includes studying and visiting different practical
cases in Barcelona.
• Provide a sound knowledge of environmental comfort strategies
(heating, acoustic and visual), saving strategies (water, energy,
waste and materials) and health strategies (environmentally friendly
materials, bio-habitability) for the design of a sustainable habitat,
and of the existing housing construction systems, with the involve-
ment of professionals and users.
• Acquire a methodology for developing the design of an ecological
renovation project for an existing social housing block through
workshops run by experts.
• Take advantage of the programme’s position in the academic con-
text, and encourage both rigorous standards and experimentation.
Create new paths for innovation and research.
3. Postgraduate Diploma in
Strategic Habitat Design:
Mobility and Temporality
Start date: October.
ECTS Credits: 30
Language: Spanish
Qualification: Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Habitat Design:
Mobility and Temporality, degree awarded by Pompeu Fabra University
(UPF) and ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona.
Schedule: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 5 pm to 9.15 pm
Structure
This themed postgraduate course deals with different ways of
organising housing in response to individuals’ growing mobility and
the changing circumstances arising from the complexity of the
different stages of the living cycle.
The content includes a review of the innovative and adaptive
experiments that have come in response to society’s new behaviour.
This programme is based on the following subject blocks:
1. Design for Institutional Housing. Properties with Services.
1.1. Cohabitation; emancipation; room for the elderly.
Properties with Services; Sheltered flats vs. assisted living.
1.2. New descriptors – project operators .
Good distance; Appropriated spaces; Undifferentiated matrix;
Thick wall and active strip; Departitioning; Practical space.
1.3. Design parameters – emergent social values and regulations.
Habitability; Security; Sustainability; Accessibility.
1.4. Equipment; Functional devices: Materials.
Fixed and moving enclosure elements; Furniture;
Bathroom and kitchen equipment; Technological equipment.
1.5. Service infrastructures scaled to the land.
2. Shelter design
2.1. Sociological, anthropological and historic analysis.
Assembly techniques, and others; Minimum energy structure;
Enclosure systems.
3. Design of microspaces of rooms in transit – nomad
habitat: mobile homes, bungalows, sleeping cars, cabin
lodges, etc.
3.1. Integrated equipment for a living space with minimum
dimensions.
3.2. Public networks - Environment ecology.
3.3. Material culture; Luggage for mobility.
4. Design for hotels and intensification centres by means of
temporary stays.
4.1. Habitability. Space organisation. Private, shared, service and
leisure spaces.
4.2. Material strategy and iconography of interior comfort.
5. Workshops.
5.1 Construction of an emergency shelter at 1:1.
5.2 Mobile container design for public space.
5.3 Corporate interior design for a theme hotel.
6. Tutoring projects.
6.1 High specificity housing and benefits vs. housing network.
Postgraduate Diploma in Eco-habitat.
Designing Eco-efficient Housing
Start date: March.
ECTS Credits: 30
Language: Spanish or English groups
Qualification: Postgraduate Diploma in Eco-habitat. Designing
Eco-efficient Housing, degree awarded by Pompeu Fabra University
(UPF) and ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona.
Schedule: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 5 pm to 9.15 pm
Structure
Sustainability strategies for habitat –like re-design, rehabilitation,
recycling, reusing and revitalisation- are the foundation for reducing
the energy demand and the emissions of the neighbourhood, building
system and the construction systems, in order to foster the regeneration
of social cohesion and the improvement of habitability both in the interior
of houses as in urban space in the Mediterranean urban fabrics.
The main goal of the Postgraduate Diploma in Ecohabitat will
reveal the large variety of evaluation tools for urban sustainability
from a systemic approach, from the neighbourhoods and the urban
space, to the construction systems, building materials and flows
of the building, as well as redefining the building typology in close
cooperation and participation with the users.
The course is made up of 3 modules of six weeks each, with
one evaluated delivery per module. The course further includes 3
workshops, 6 visits to buildings and 10 case studies. The 3 weekly
sessions of 4 hours are structured in the following way:
Theoretical session + applied exercise session
Workshop session
Visit to a building or master conference by an invited speaker
1. Eco-design neighbourhood
1.1. Urban sustainability
1.2. Cases Studies
1.3. Evaluation tools for urban sustainability
2. Eco-design building
2.1. Sustainable buildings
2.2. Cases Studies
2.3. Evaluation tools for sustainable buildings
3. Eco-design renovation
3.1. Low energy renovation
3.2. Cases Studies
3.3. Evaluation tools for sustainable buildings
4. Workshops
4.1. Develop a proposal for an Eco-neighbourhood in an existing
urban context with the evaluation tools and the indicators given.
4.2. Design a recycling building “Ecopunto limpio de barrio”
following the briefing of the Catalan Waste Agency, in order to
foster social and environmental sustainability.
4.3. Project the typological and construction design of the housing
for their complete and energetic renovation following the different
certified European eco-labels.
5. Main project
5.1. Redesigning a neighbourhood and a multifamiliar dwelling
in Barcelona in neighbourhoods like La Sagrera – Sant Andreu
or the 22@ technological district. The final postgraduate project
gives students the opportunity to use the necessary tools to
evaluate and apply sustainability strategies in order to carry out
the revitalisation and transformation of an existing neighbourhood
with existing social multifamiliar dwellings from the city scale to
construction systems.
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4. Teaching staff
RAFAEL BALANZÓ
Architect and landscaper. Director of the Department of Rebuilding
at ELISAVA. Member of Asociación AUS, an architecture and
sustainability association run by the Official Catalan Architect
Association. Consultant on urban sustainability projects.
COQUE CLARET
Architect. Specialised in construction and sustainability. Project
lecturer at the Vallès School of Architecture (EAV-UPC). Co-
director of the Master’s Degree in Interior Design at the UPC.
NATALIE DENYS
Interior designer. Co-director at DENYS & VON AREND, an interior
design study specialised in design for hotels and offices.
RAMON FARRENY
PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from the UAB.
Collaborating lecturer at the UAB. ICTA-SosteniPrA researcher.
RAMON FERRER
PhD in psychology. Tenured lecturer at the University of Barcelona.
RAÚL GARCIA
Industrial Designer from ELISAVA (UPF). Lecturer at ELISAVA and
IED Barcelona. ICTA-SosteniPrA researcher and product manager
at Inèdit.
RICARDO GUASCH
PhD in Architecture. Academic Director at ELISAVA. Co-director of
the Master’s Degree in Interior Design at ELISAVA..
FRANCESC LABASTIDA
Architect. Lecturer at the School of Architecture of Barcelona
(ETSAB-UPC). Former dean of COAC (Association of Architects of
Catalonia). Technical expert of the advisory board for the drafting of
the new Technical Building Code.
JOSEP LINARES
Building engineer. Head of the Unit for Rehabilitation and
Improvement of Dwellings of the Catalan Building Agency. Lecturer
in Building Engineering at ELISAVA.
EMILIANO LÓPEZ
Architect. Awards: Architecture FAD 2008, Spanish Young People
Biennial 2009, Latin American Biennial 2010. Assistant lecturer of
architecture at the UPC in Vallès.
JOSEP MALDONADO
Architect. Research assistant at Vallès School of Architecture
(ETSAV). Co-author of several texts and study guides at the UPC.
MARIA MORILLO
Architect. Research assistant at Vallès School of Architecture
(ETSAV).
ANTONI ROSELLÓ
Industrial designer. Several ADI-FAD selections of his products.
TXATXO SABATER
PhD in Architecture. Former tenured lecturer in the Architectural
Composition Department at the Vallès School of Architecture (EAV-
UPC). Author of the curriculum guide “Gerohabitation, Cohabitation,
Emancipation”.
ENZO VIGNOLO
Architect. Lecturer at the Master’s Degree in Interior Space Design
at ELISAVA.
PATRICIA VON AREND
Interior designer. Co-director of DENYS & VON AREND, an interior
design studio specialised in design for hotels and offices.
Lectures
INÉS ALOMAR
Industrial engineer and energy consultant at ERF.
JOSEP BUNYESC
Architect, specialised in buildings following the Passivhaus
standard.
DANIEL CALATAYUD
Architect, lecturer at the ETSAV (UPC). Author of the book 34 kg
de C02.
DANIEL CID
PhD in History, specialised in domestic space. Scientific Director at
ELISAVA.
ALBERT CUCHÍ
Architect, tenured lecturer at the UPC.
JUAN DEL RIO
Biologist. Master in Sustainability from the UPC. Expert in Transition
Towns.
MONIQUE ELEB
Psychologist and a Doctor of Sociology, professor at the Quai-
Malaquais School of Architecture in Paris. Author of reference
books which include Penser l’habité: le logement en questions,
PAN 14 (1988), and L’habitation en projets: de la France à Europe,
Europan (1989).
RAMON FERRER
PhD in Psychology. Tenured lecturer at the University of Barcelona.
CHEMA FORTES
Consultant of investments in social and health centres.
ALBERT FUSTER
Architect. Director of studies for the Degree in Design and lecturer
of the Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering at ELISAVA.
LLUÍS GRAU
Architect. Member of Asociación AUS, an architecture and
sustainability association run by the Official Catalan Architect
Association. Author of sustainable multifamiliar dwellings
JAVIER LARRAZ
Architect.
CARLES LLOP
PhD in Architecture. Tenured lecturer at the UPC. Director of the
Department of Town Planning and Land Organisation.
JORDI OLIVER
PhD in Environmental Science from the UAB. Collaborating lecturer
at ELISAVA and EPSI-UAB. ICTA-SosteniPrA researcher. Managing
Director at Inèdit.
TORSTEN MASSECK
Architect responsible for CISOL and LOW3. Lecturer at ETSAV.
LAIDA MEMBA
Architect. Master’s Degree in Architecture from the University of
Illinois. Lecturer of the Bachelor’s Degree in Design at ELISAVA.
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5. MIGUEL MORTE
Architect and partner at COMPACT HABIT.
JAVIER PEÑA
PhD in Chemical Science. Lecturer and director of studies at
ELISAVA. Scientific director at Mater Centro de Materiales from FAD.
JOAN RIERADEVALL
PhD in Chemical Science from the UAB. Coordinator of the
research group SosteniPrA.
JOAN SABATÉ
Architect. Director at SAAS Arquitectos y Proyecto LIMA.
ALBERT SAGRERA
Architect and member of Societat Orgànica.
BETTINA SHAEFFER
Architect and town planner. Partner at Ecoinstitut.
ADOLF SKOK
Architect and engineer. Lecturer at the Saint Luc School of
Architecture at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
ANTONI SOLANAS
Architect. President of the association AUS-COAC, architecture and
sustainability. Author of the book 34 kg de C02.
M. ÀNGELS TRESERRA SOLER
PhD in Medicine. Specialised in public health and health legislation.
Degree in Geriatrics and Gerontology.
ROGER TUDO
Architect.
MICHEL WASSOUF
Architect, specialised in Passivhaus standard.
Partnerships
* ELISAVA alumni will benefit from a 10% discount on the total amount of
the course. Members of the ELISAVA Professional Association enjoy a 15%
reduction.
The teaching staff is likely to change according to reasons beyond the course
programme. ELISAVA reserves the right to make changes in programming as
well as the right to suspend the course two weeks before it starts if not reached
the minimum number of participants, without further obligation of the amounts
paid by each participant.
Master’s and Postgraduate Degree programmes schedules can be expanded
according to the selected course activities (weekends included).
SPACE DESIGN
AND ARCHITECTURE
The twenty-first century calls for
professionals fit to the task of over-
coming the techniques caging in
the building, construction and habi-
tat sectors. The coursework in this
area help students design architec-
ture and space in an eco-efficient
manner. It trains participants to
design and manage the uses of
space—both interior and exterior—
in residential, workplace, commer-
cial and exhibition spheres. It also
integrates control techniques such
as light, sound, itineraries and ergo-
nomics into its spatial design.
MASTER’S DEGREE
Advanced Design and DigitalArchitecture
Retail Space: Retail Design
Interior Design
Design andArchitecture
Design and Habitat
Design,Art and Public Space
Design of Cultural Devices
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA
Set Design
Architectural Lighting
BioDesign Laboratory
Computational Design Laboratory
Retail Design.Design and Space: Shopping
Retail Design.Design and Concept: Branding
Interior Space.Private Perimeters
Design ofWork Space
Design,Image andArchitecture
Design,Environment andArchitecture
Strategic Habitat Design: Mobility andTemporality
Eco-habitat.Designing Eco-efficient Housing
Exterior Design.Events and Ephemeral Spaces
Design,Art and Society
Design ofAreas for Knowledge and Participation.Cultural
Symbiotic Innovation
DesignofExhibitionIntegratedProjects.ThereandBackTools
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