It is that time of the year. The Snowcem Design Award 2008 – IIT Kharagpur organized at the department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT, Kharagpur. The event has been sponsored by Snowcem Paints India.
The basic objective was to encourage all levels of IIT’s (Indian Institute of Technology) undergraduate architecture course students working together and learning through ‘Share and Care’ within a given time frame. Sometimes junior students learn quicker with their free interaction with the senior students in the same group. Senior students also prove their leadership in guiding their groups and thus the ‘team spirit’ wins finally.
This was the second reason for organizing this type of competition. Similar time-bound inter class architectural design competitions were also arranged earlier here in this department with our alumni sponsorship. Every time, results came out to be marvelous and purposes rightly addressed. These competitions generate tremendous enthusiasm among architecture students - budding architects for the future.
This year the design theme revolved around creating an Ashram with the site contextual reference from the ghats of Varanasi. Students were asked to create a contemporary religious environment with the vernacular historicity from the past for housing a meditation centre, herbal medicine processing unit, library, display cum religious archival centre as well as dormitories for the residents. Administration, outdoor yoga centre, landscaped gardens including ghats were auxiliary requirements for the same complex.
The total number of students were distributed in six groups. Each group consisted of students from First to Final year B.Arch class. Within a time frame about a week they were asked to submit design ideas with concept philosophy, architectural and structural systems design, inventories of building and finish materials, urban design thoughts for the place with a miniature model for the same.
A five member Jury comprising of Prof. Arif N. Merchant (HOD), Prof. Sanghamitra Basu, Prof. Jaydip Barman, Prof. Joydeep Dutta and Prof. Saikat Paul – members of the faculty evaluated all the design submissions from six groups through a brain storming session. Students have presented their design proposals through well rendered design drawing sheets, miniaturized model along with their literature review and case studies and also concepts in power point slide shows.
Each group with all its members present was asked to describe its design first, followed by subsequent question –answering sessions from the Jury. All the entries were displayed in the department central Atrium and the Jury met again for their final evaluation. The designs were examined in the lights of novelty of the concept, technical inputs from architectural and structural system, circulation, climatic, user-behavioral, energy conscious application, selection of building and finish materials, reference from contextual vernacular styles, verbal explanation points of view.
Though each of the design had its merits or demerits, on comparative scale First, Second and Third positions were decided. The results were declared in the presence of Mr. Madhusudan Roy, Area Manager from Snowcem Paints. The prize in terms of checks, cash awards and certificates were presented among the winners by Mr. M. Roy. He has expressed his happiness for the grand success of this event and also assured for further patronage in similar type of students’ competitive endeavor. The event finished with a vote of thanks from our HOD.
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