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Home   >  Master's & postgraduate courses  >  Education  >  Postgraduate course in Sustainable Urban Space
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This postgraduate course is also part of the training track for the continuing education master's degree in Architecture and the Environment: Urban Space, Light and Integration of Energy in Architecture.

Presentation

Information 2024-2025 edition
The 2024-2025 edition of the postgraduate course has already begun. Shortly we will publish updated information about the new edition of this programme.
Edition
6th Edition
Credits
15 ECTS (90 teaching hours)
Delivery
Face-to-face
Language of instruction
Spanish
Fee
€2,300
Notes payment of enrolment fee and 0,7% campaign
Registration open until the beginning of the course or until end of vacancies.
Next course
October of 2025
Timetable
Tuesday: 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Wednesday: 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Taught at
ETSAB - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Av. Diagonal, 649
Barcelona
Why this postgraduate course?
The public space has a strategic role in redefining new patterns of behaviour at the urban level. During the Postgraduate Programme in Sustainable Urban Design, students will be taught to identify the transformation processes and parameters that exert an influence when creating new urban, creative and innovative instrumental strategies, adapted to the new socio-economic-cultural scenario.

The effect of the sun and the amount of energy available in each case must be urban and architectural decision-making tools. The programme teaches students how to apply software to simulate, calculate and study solar radiation applied to urban planning.

The programme will enable students to acquire the necessary critical thinking to work on processes creating or modifying urban fabrics, based on an overall consideration of the factors involved.

Aims
To train specialists in urban behaviour, with skills to work on the design and assessment of the city.
Who is it for?
  • Architects, technical architects and engineers interested in obtaining a high degree of specialisation in the application of renewable energies in architecture.
  • Other university professionals that need to broaden their knowledge in this field.

Training Content

List of subjects
15 ECTS 90h
Sustainable Urban Space
  • Sustainability.
    • Introduction to sustainability.
    • Life Cycle Analysis.
    • Construction waste. Domestic waste.
    • The water cycle: capture, treatment and storage.
    • Simulation, calculation and study software of solar radiation applied to urban design.
  • Urban dynamics.
    • Territorial models, urban structures and sustainability.
    • Towards sustainable urban development and mobility. Urban mobility.
    • Urban light pollution.
  • Urban morphology.
    • The human and social dimension of the public space.
    • Heat island and urban morphology.
    • Urban catalysts.
Degree
Postgraduate qualification in Sustainable Urban Space, issued by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Issued by virtue of the provisions of art. 7.1 of Organic Law 2/2023 of 22 March, concerning the University System, and art. 36 of Royal Decree 822/2021 of 28 September, which establishes the organisation of university education and the procedure for ensuring its quality. A prior official university qualification is necessary to obtain it. Otherwise, the student will receive a certificate of completion of the programme issued by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya. Lifelong learning studies at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya are approved by the University's Governing Council on an annual basis. (See details appearing on the certificate).
Range of modules
This postgraduate course is part of the training track for the continuing education master's degree in Architecture and the Environment: Urban Space, Light and Integration of Energy in Architecture .
The continuing education master's degree programme is organized into the following modules. If you don't wish to take the entire continuing education master's degree you can sign on one or several modules.
Continuing education master's degree:
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Learning methodology

The teaching methodology of the programme facilitates the student's learning and the achievement of the necessary competences.



Learning tools
Participatory lectures
A presentation of the conceptual foundations of the content to be taught, promoting interaction with the students to guide them in their learning of the different contents and the development of the established competences.
Practical classroom sessions
Knowledge is applied to a real or hypothetical environment, where specific aspects are identified and worked on to facilitate understanding, with the support from teaching staff.
Assessment criteria
Attendance
At least 80% attendance of teaching hours is required.
Work out projects
Studies on a specific topic, by individuals or groups, in which the quality and depth of the work is assessed, among other factors.
Work placements & employment service
Students can access job offers in their field of specialisation on the My_Tech_Space virtual campus. Applications made from this site will be treated confidentially. Hundreds of offers of the UPC School of Professional & Executive Development employment service appear annually. The offers range from formal contracts to work placement agreements.
Virtual campus
The students on this postgraduate course will have access to the My_ Tech_Space virtual campus - an effective platform for work and communication between the course's students, lecturers, directors and coordinators. My_Tech_Space provides the documentation for each training session before it starts, and enables students to work as a team, consult lecturers, check notes, etc.

Teaching team

Academic management
  • Alonso Montolío, Carlos
    Alonso Montolío, Carlos
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    Doctor Architect. from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
  • Coch Roura, Helena
    Coch Roura, Helena
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    Architect PhD. Department of Architectural Technology of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Teaching staff
  • Alonso Montolío, Carlos
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    Doctor Architect. from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
  • Batlle Durany, Enric
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    Architect for the ETSAB, Ph.D. in architecture in 2002 with the thesis published in the Gustavo Gili publishing house entitled 'The Garden of the Metropolis', professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Territorial Planning and director of the MBLandArch, university master's degree of landscaping at the UPC. He is a prestigious landscape architect, teaching conferences and courses around the world. He is a founding member, jointly with Joan Roig Duran, of the Batlleiroig Arquitectura office, which has been working since 1981 in landscape, urban planning and building projects.
  • Carceller Roqué, Xavier
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    Doctor in Architecture (UPC). Professor of courses in Urban Ecology, Sustainable City and Territory, Environmental Assessment or Integration of Urban Planning, Legislation, Environmental Management and Diagnosis. He develops the professional activity in the administration of the Generalitat of Catalonia where, among other charges, has been head of the Planning Natural Environment (Department of Environment) and he is currently Head of Service Plans and Programs, in the General Division Environmental Assessment (Department of Planning and Sustainability).
  • Coch Roura, Helena
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    Architect PhD. Department of Architectural Technology of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
  • Crespo Cabillo, Isabel
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    Architect PhD. Department of Architectural Representation at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
  • Cuchí Burgos, Albert
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    Doctor of Architecture (ETSAB, 1983) and Professor in the Department of Architectural Technology I of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and coordinator of the line of Sustainable Building of the Master of Sustainability at UPC (Official Master). He works on issues of sustainability and architecture, both in teaching and research, in collaboration with various institutions. He has made presentations, and publications on the issue at national and international level. Founding member of the group "Architecture and Sustainability" of the College of Architects of Catalonia and partnership for sustainable building in GBC Spain. Technical partner in sustainability and building of various institutions, including t Generalitat de Cataluña, Ministries of the Government of Spain, the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona and the Consortium of Santiago de Compostela. He has published several works on an urban scale.
  • Feliu Jofre, Alvaro
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    Civil Engineer.
  • Isalgue Buxeda, Antonio
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    Doctor in Physics. Professor ocf the Department of Physics (UPC).
  • López Besora, Judit
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    Doctor of Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Master in Architecture, Energy and Environment. Lecturer Professor Serra Hunter at the Department of Architecture Technology of the UPC. She has 20 years of experience in the profession of architect, in the fields of building and energy efficiency.
  • Martí Casanovas, Miquel
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    PhD in Urbanism from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Civil Engineer (INSA Lyon) and Master in Political and Social Sciences from Institut d'Études Polítiques de Paris. Professor in Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning of the UPC. Her field of research is the study of contemporary public space, sustainable mobility strategies and their effects on a qualified, intense and healthy urban space. Researcher at the Center for Forest Science and Technology of Catalonia on biocities and ecosystem services of green infrastructures.
  • Moccia, Aldo
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    Master's degree in Building Architecture from Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI). Postgraduate Master in Architecture, Energy and the Environment from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). Currently, is a Senior Research Assistant at the AiEM Department of UPC.
  • Muñoz Ramírez, Francisco Manuel
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    Phd in Geography and professor at the Department of Geography of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Current Director of Urbanization Observatory, Research Group of the Department of Geography at the UAB, and teacher of several master and postgraduate programs at UAB.He has published articles about the city, urban studies and landscape issues. His work includes books like urBANALization: Common Landscapes, Global Places (Gustau Gili, Barcelona, 2008) and Strategies towards low-density city: containment management (Diputación de Barcelona, 2011).
  • Pagès Ramon, Anna
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    Architect PhD. Department of Architecture Technology (UPC).
  • Roca i Blanch, Estanislao
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    PhD in Architecture and Emeritus Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Has been director of the Department of Urbanism, Territory and Landscape, as well as vice-chancellor of Infrastructure and Architecture of this university; professor in charge of various undergraduate and postgraduate subjects, and president of a Final Career Project Court at the Barcelona Technical School of Architecture. Director of a dozen doctoral theses, one of them winner of the Manuel de Solà-Morales European Urban Planning Award. Invited as a lecturer at relevant congresses and, as a teacher, at twenty prestigious international universities. Assessor of the (CNEAI) ANECA. Currently, co-director of the Poliědrica book collection and responsible for the “Cities” section of the Compàs d'Amalgama magazine of the University of Barcelona. He has published about thirty books and more than a hundred chapters and/or scientific articles in indexed journals. Among others, he has obtained the three-year Lluís Domènech i Montaner award for research in architectural sciences, the Jaume Vicens Vives Distinction for university teaching quality and the Europa Nostra Medal of Honor. He was also awarded the National Urbanism Award.
  • Rull Bertran, Rosa Maria
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    Architect. Lecturer in Projects at the Alicante Higher Polytechnic School (EPS-UA), the ESARQ-UIC, and the BAU - University of Vic. Founding partner of the studio Bailo+Rull - ADD + ARQUITECTURA.

Career opportunities

  • Sustainable Urban Design Consultant.
  • Technical Consultant on Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in Construction.

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Registration rights. The interested party must make payment of the specified registration fee for the course. This fee will be deducted from the full course fee and will only be reimbursed if the applicant is not admitted.

Cancellation or deferment.The Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya reserves the right to cancel or defer a course if the minimum number of students is not met. In case of cancellation or non-admittance, the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya will return all amounts paid in full, without any additional compensation. In case of deferment, applicants may request reimbursement of fees paid.

Cancellation of registration.
In the event of withdrawal or cancellation of the registration, the student must notify the UPC School in writing beforehand.
  • If this request for cancellation is made 45 days before the start of the programme, the UPC School will retain only 30% of the total registration fee and refund the difference paid.
  • In the event that the application request is made within 45 calendar days and the beginning of the programme, the UPC School will retain 60% of the registration fee.
  • No applications for refunds may be made after the programme has started.
Under exceptional circumstances, refunds of the registration fee will be made if the student's cancellation is due to one of the following circumstances:
  • Denial of a visa, subject to submission of supporting documentation. In this case, the UPC School will refund the registration fee less 300 Euros for administrative expenses.
  • Serious illness or accident accredited by an official medical certificate, stating the start date of the illness and the anticipated convalescence period. In this situation the UPC School's decision will be as follows:
    • If the notification takes place up to one month after the start of the programme, it will refund the amount actually paid, less 300 Euros as administrative expenses.
    • No refunds will be made after a month after the start of the programme. It will be only be possible to use the amount paid as a deposit for the registration fee of the next programme. This procedure entails no administrative fee for the student. The price difference between the new registration fee and the amount previously paid will be payable by the student under all circumstances.

Changes in registration. Any changes in registration, previously authorised by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya, will incur a 300 € administration fee.

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  • Discounts are non-accumulable. The greater discount of those requested will be applied.
  • Discounts can only be applied under prior application and approval.
  • Once registration has been confirmed, no discount will be applied.
  • Students are responsible for placing applications for any discounts.

Qualification. In order to obtain the Qualification/Diploma issued by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the student must be in possession of a recognised university qualification or internal university qualification equivalent to a degree or diploma. If this is not the case, the student will receive a certificate of completion for the course, issued by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya. Students with outstanding payments due to the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya or who has not approved all the credits necessary to overcome the program before the date of completion of this program will not be eligible to receive any qualification, diploma or certificate.

Barcelona, October 31, 2017


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