Master in Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP)

HafenCity University Hamburg is Europe's only university focused exclusively on architecture and metropolitan development, situated in one of the continent's most ambitious urban renewal projects.

Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP) is an international and interdisciplinary Master of Science programme at HafenCity University Hamburg. Its central focus is on technologies for urban and building services — covering building construction and renovation, energy and water supply, and waste and wastewater management — and on the socio-economic contexts in which those services are planned and delivered. The programme does not teach architectural design and does not award a professional degree in architecture, urban planning, or civil engineering; instead it takes an integrative, multidimensional planning approach across all resource flows. The curriculum maps relationships between urban service technology and the environment, examining how user behaviour interacts with those systems and how resource-efficient technologies can be implemented, governed, and financed. Urban planning is studied at building, neighbourhood, and city scales, with attention to specific geographical and cultural conditions. The programme also teaches research methods and decision support techniques, with project work based on real-world case studies. Two-thirds of courses are compulsory; limited choice is available in some areas. Part-time study is possible, subject to restrictions for some international students. The programme consists of 17 study modules taught across two academic years and starts in the winter semester. The programme is based at HafenCity University Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.