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Design project for 3rd, 4th and 5th Year students. (B.Arch,
B.plan, Interior Design, Product design and other design and
animation courses)

Design a habitat for a couple who conducts design and creative workshops. They
invite students who would stay in a special hostel. You are free to choose a site
anywhere in the world. Just make sure that the area of the site you choose is not
less than 2 acre (8095 m2).

As both of the inhabitants are artists

and architects, they are passionate and
indulge in activities like painting,
photography, lm making and writing.
Just make sure that the house and the
hostel have

Three bedrooms with attached toilets

Living area
Dining area
Kitchen
Two studios (one for each artist)
Oce
Exhibition area (to display the artists and the
students works)
Library
Workshop space for students
Accommodation for students twelve rooms
(one toilet for every four rooms)
A cottage for an assistant (1 bhk unit)
Accommodation for three helpers (rooms,
kitchen and toilets)
Outdoor workshop space with one common
toilet near the space
We have no issues if you think any other area
needs to be added to this creative hub.

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Site

You are free to choose any site on this earth! Just

keep the following points in mind

The total site area should not be

less than two acres (8095 m2)

No side of the site should be less

than 60m

The site must have exciting, scenic

views from at least two sides

Design Brief

Submission requirements We dont

want a tall heap of sheets and
drawings. Just send us an email with
your drawings and sketches with
suitable text and explanations

The sheet size should be A2 (landscape).

Please note that your sheets should be all in PDF
format
Please do not send more than 5 sheets.
Feel free to use any medium drawings can be
digital or hand drawn (scanned) but please make
them with all your heart so that we look at them
and say, Yes! They are really something to look
at!

We are waiting for your exciting designs! An

Architects and designers community! A
wonderland for creative people in the most
fantastic setting of your choice snow capped
mountains, green rolling hills, lusty beaches,
uncharted forests design this artists hub at any
kind of place you nd exciting as well as thrilling.

Evaluation criteria

All entries would be marked keeping the following points in mind

Concept.

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Originality, imagination and unconventional design.

Design process and evolution of design.

Marking would be split in three parts, as

70% for the idea

20% for presentation

10% for write up

Prizes
CASH + CERTIFICATE

First prize Rs25,000 + certicate and trophy

Second Prize Rs15,000 + certicate and trophy

Third Prize Rs 5,000 +certicate and trophy

Five Honorable mentions + certicates

Important Dates

Regular registration 1st April, 2016 to 30th September, 2016

Last date of registration 30th September, 2016

Last date for submission 15th October, 2016

Results 20th November, 2016

Registration Fee

Indian Nationals

Single entry - Rs 500

Group entry (upto three group members per group allowed) Rs1200

Registration Fee (International Students)

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Judges

Ayodh Vasant Kamath blends craft, design Narinderjit Kaur is an architect, designer
and computation in research, teaching, and motivated environmental planner
and professional practice. His research on who relishes new and dynamic
bamboo gridshell design won a Best challenges. Her elds of interest include
Paper, Runner-up at CAADRIA 2013 and Natural Resource Management, Urban
his research on Computationally Environment & Climate Change and
Reclaiming Material in Detroit won him Sustainable approach in and Spatial
the LTU Faculty Seed Grant in2014. He Planning and Architecture. She has
has presented his research at eighteen years of professional experience
international conferences in Asia, Europe including six years of core eld work, 11
and North America. years eld work as free-lance consultant
along with 11 years teaching experience.
Ayodh co-coordinates the Visual
Communications course sequence in the Narinderjit Kaur
department of architecture. He teaches
graduate and undergraduate design
studios, and has organized an
international design-build workshop with
the makeLAB at LTU. Ayodh has
previously taught at the Sushant School of
Art & Architecture, Gurgaon, and the
University School of Architecture and
Planning, Delhi, India.

A practicing architect in India, Ayodh is a

partner at Kamath Design Studio, New
Delhi. He was involved in the design of
the tallest stainless steel structure in
South Asia. Projects he has worked on
have appeared in various national and

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international publications. He has also
worked on installation art projects,
furniture design and photography.
Ayodh Vasant Kamath
Pavol Griac is a resident of Slovakia,
Europe. He has studied Spatial Planning
at the University of Technology in Slovakia
and in city of Reims in France. He has
taught Urban Planning at a prestigious
university in India and has traveled
dierent parts of India during his stay. He
works in real estate business. He loves to
travel and experience dierent culture He
is a sports enthusiast and loves to play ice
hockey, football and rock climbing.
Pavol Griac
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Kunal Chaudhry is an Architect and Urban
Designer who graduated from the
University of Toronto. He brings forth
architectural design and urban design
experience, with an excellent facility for
concept plan illustration, development of
guidelines and master planning. Having
led and collaborated with large, multi-
disciplinary consultant groups, and with
extensive experience working with
regional and municipal departments and
facilitating design workshops for both the
public and the private sectors, Kunal
Chaudhry presents an interesting
dialogue between Architecture and Urban
Design. He currently works at a private
rm in Toronto and has participated in
numerous design competitions and
proposals across the world and has
served as a design jury member.
Kunal Chaudhry
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Guneet has worked with Raj Rewal, one of

Indias most prominent Architects, for ve
years and handled the Architectural
Department (North) For SGS India,
aliated Company of the group SGS SA
Geneva, Switzerland. Guneet is an
architect from Sushant School of
Architecture, Gurgaon with vast and
varied experience in residential,
institutional, commercial and hospitality
projects like the UNITECH Group housing
in NOIDA, Chancery Project (Indian
Embassy), Shanghai, China and Taj Moti
Mahal, Bharatpur. She has worked as a
visiting faculty in various prestigious
institution in NCR. She also headed the
publication department under Raj Rewal
Associates and worked on a number of
books articles for prestigious architectural
magazines with publishing houses like
Phaidon and Oxford. With a keen interest
in child friendly space design, she has
worked on various research projects for
the same.

Guneet Raj Singh

Media Partner

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