Marsception 2024 invites architects, designers, students, teachers, engineers, artists, visionaries, and everyone who believe in this unseen future and a possibility of utopian future. The participants are to create a self-sustaining living space for the initial habitants, a group of five researchers, of the Red Planet.
The participants are to select a location anywhere on the topography of Mars. It is now time to imagine and create a new civilization, with an opportunity to design the future architectural prospect on the Red Planet for others to follow.
The spaces for the program include:
- Living Area
- Sleeping Area for five
- Cooking Area
- Research Area
- Interaction Spaces
- Areas for Sanitation and Bath
- Recreation Area
- Controlled Areas for Farming
- Any other spaces that the participant wishes to specify
Judging Criteria:
The final entries will be judged by an esteemed panel of judges who are
experts in the subject matter. The jury panel will judge the submitted entries
as per the criteria mentioned below:
Design Concept:
- The participants’ entries will be judged based on their imaginative capabilities to develop a concept and their approach towards designing the habitat in terms of innovation.
Climatically Responsive:
- The feasibility of the designs oppose the stark atmosphere of the Red Planet is to be given careful consideration.
Spatial Configuration:
- The spaces in the habitat pod have to be functional for all the necessary
operations.
Awards:
- 1st: 2000 USD, Certificate of Achievement Publication
- 2nd: 1200 USD, Certificate of Achievement Publication
- 3rd: 800 USD, Certificate of Achievement Publication
- 10 Honourable Mentions
- Participation Certificates
