Snowcem Paints announces winners of the Snowcem Faculty Awards 2007

Snowcem Paints along with Sir JJ College of Architecture announced the winners of Snowcem Faculty Awards 2007, at the Auditorium, Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai. The topic for this year’s competition was ‘Night Shelters for Street children’. The college received an overwhelming response of more than 200 entries this year from its students. The Jury members for the Snowcem Faculty Medal 2007 were Arch. Neera Adarkar, Author and Urban Researcher, Arch. Percy Kutar and Vinay Somani, Trustee Karmayog who had a tough time to judge the entries.

The main objective behind this topic is to get street children off the streets at a time when they are at their most vulnerable. The children shall be there of their own accord, enroll themselves, manage themselves under guidance and can leave whenever they want. The atmosphere of the center is home-like at all times. The Night Shelter is intended to provide security and a Home to street children, with facilities for cleanliness, literacy, medical aid, in an environment of love and affection. Designs of excellence of such shelters could become working models contributing significantly toward a "safe and just" metropolis. Students were required to find a site in the city where street children normally congregate and design what suited the best shelter for them.

This is the second year that Snowcem is getting associated with the college for this competition, to help in initiating and probing the future architects to design for socio-economic class, thus creating Mumbai, a better place to live. Speaking on the occasion Ms. Vibha Khandelwal, “We are happy to be associated with such competitions, wherein we help the future architects to think about the less deserving people”.

Also present on the occasion Mr. Rajan Lakule, Principal Sir JJ College or Architecture, “This year we are very happy to see a high level of excitement in students, and hope to organize more such competitions. Corporates like Snowcem have always been associated with us for such events.”

Also present at the award ceremony were Mr S. S Shinde, Jt Commissioner Education .

The winners of Snowcem Faculty Award 2007 are as follows:

1. The 1^st prize - Pooja Ugrani (Snowcem Faculty Medal for the year 2007)
2. The 2^nd prize jointly - Kajal Dhamane and Pooja Shah.
3. Commendation certificate to Nikhil Borkar.
4. Best Design Award from the First Year Anuja Karve.
5. Commendation for First year was given to Esha Tipnis and Chaitanya Chavan.