An invitation to all designers to design a community of eco-habitats. The challenge is to design a community of 50 eco-homes. Each home in the community should be designed keeping in mind all the sustainable aspects. “The Urban Escape” design brief aims to explore innovative & sustainable housing ideas wherein earth, water, food, air and vegetation are considered as the elements of the project. The aim of the brief is to achieve design proposals which are bold, experimental & most importantly functional. The competition invites designers to bring a change and create a new category of housing which has all the features of an “Urban” home with a “Rural” community experience.

Submission Requirements

• Submission to be presented on maximum 1 landscape oriented A1 Size sheet.
• All text in the submission must be English with a maximum of 250 words for proposal explanation.
• Submission can be presented using any technique of your choice (sketches, 2d drawings, 3d visualizations, models etc.)
• All dimensions should be imperial or metric unit.
• Maximum file size should not exceed 10 MB (150 dpi).
• JPEG of your proposal to be submitted via e-mail at [email protected]

Awards

• First Place: INR 75,000
• Second Place: INR 40,000
• Third Place: INR 20,000
• Best Student Design Entry: INR 5,000
• Best Architect Design Entry: INR 5,000
• Best Presentation Award: INR 5,000
• 15 Honourable Mentions