6th IAHH International Student Design Competition:
Planning and designing a micro-cosmic sustainable humane habitat
Open, international, student, ideas
Not Site Specific
15 Jan 2008 – Late Registration Deadline (by air mail)
22 Jan 2008 – Submission Deadline
SPONSOR:
International Association for Humane Habitat (IAHH)
TYPE:
Open, international, student, ideas
LOCATION:
Not Site Specific
LANGUAGE:
English
TIMETABLE:
30 Nov 2007 – Early Registration Deadline (by air mail)
30 Dec 2007 – Inquiries Deadline
15 Jan 2008 – Late Registration Deadline (by air mail)
22 Jan 2008 – Submission Deadline
23-24 Jan 2008 – Jury Deliberations
27 Jan 2008 – Results Announced
15 Jun 2008 – Publication
ELIGIBILITY:
Students of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture and related disciplines of anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, social work etc. The student group shall be headed by a student of architecture.
JURY:
Prof. Peter Rowe, Harvard University, USA
Prof. Frank Lyons, Architect, University of Plymouth, UK
Prof. Rodney Harber, University of Natal, South Africa
Prof. Dr. Ashraf Salama, Qatar University, Qatar
Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya, CEPT, Ahmedabad, India
AWARDS:
1st Prize – INRs 50,000/-
2nd Prize – INRs 25,000/-
3rd Prize – INRs 15,000/-
Honorable Mentions
FEE:
Early Registration US$25
Late Registration US$50
DESIGN CHALLENGE:
In the wake of globalization and liberalization of world economic order, the human settlements – cities and villages – are undergoing a rapid transformation. While the urban growth continues guided by policies and programmes of urban development, there are vast areas in the urban core, periphery and hinterland, which have become economically and socially depressed, with dilapidated housing stock, congested work places and degraded environment.
It is the purpose of the 6th IAHH International Student Design Competition to investigate into this issue of rapid urbanization and resultant decay and degradation of human settlements in the urban core, periphery and hinterland in order to evolve a more enlightened approach to planning, design and management of humane habitats.
The student competitors are required to identify such an area in a village / city / town / metropolis in their own country or in any other country anywhere in the world. The community may be about 1500 to 3000 people, with jobs for 500 or more people. The urban / rural area may admeasure about 5 to10 hectares or so. The student participants shall survey and study the area in depth to understand the complexity of social, economic and demographic issues involved and plan and design for its sustainable area development.
The design-brief requires planning and design for an urban or rural community of 500 to 1000 units of dwelling and about 250 to 500 or more jobs in different establishment suited to the location and context. The housing typology and nature of work places may vary as per the social, cultural, economic and environmental context. The area and type of housing units and work places shall depend on the existing and proposed density, demand for housing and work- places in the area.
The proposed plans and designs shall aim to evolve a more humane community through sustainable and affordable development strategy, appropriate construction and technology, innovative planning, creative architectural and sustainable environmental design. These shall be the main criteria for evaluation of the projects.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Prof. Akhtar Chauhan, Convener
Prof. Anil Nagrath, Technical Co-ordinator
Secretariat
IAHH International Student Design Competition
Rizvi College of Architecture
Off Carter Road, Bandra West
Mumbai 400 050
India
Tel: 91-22-26044196
Fax: 91-22-26050624
ichh2008@humanehabitat.org
