Build With Speed – UltraTech IndiaNext Competition 2021

The challenge is to Build with Speed, while respecting the context, which is about anchoring design with the help of the latest technologies, processes and materials to Recraft India’s growth story. Engineers and architects have to ambitiously and courageously take up the challenge to fulfil the nation’s promises, time being of the essence.

Competition website: https://www.ultratechindianext.com/

Categories

The projects may fall under any of these two categories:

1) Urban 

The simplicity of the module, its ability to be swiftly executed and replicated with variants to allow for creating individual experiences while responding to the existing fabric of the city neighbourhood will be viewed with a critical lens. In urban areas, the solution could be centred around the needs of: – Daily wage workers who face an absence of adequate housing facilities and infrastructure. – Slum dwellers dehoused by the infrastructure or development projects within the city. – Rental housing for people who cannot afford to buy a house in the city.

2) Rural 

This design challenge addresses the challenge of building a home within a cluster of others while retaining the community flavour of the area under consideration. In rural areas, the areas of intervention include: – Shelter for the homeless, for e.g., the people living on the fringes of the village. – Homes for migrants who have returned home to make a new living for themselves. – Low-cost mass housing solutions for the benefactors of PMAY-G schemes.

THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

For Architects & Engineers: The participating team must comprise at least 1 architect and 1 engineer. The combination of an architect and engineer is required to optimize the aesthetic and engineering aspects of the program.

For Students: The participating team size must not be over 4. The team must comprise at least 1 student each in the penultimate year/final year of engineering and architecture studies. The combination of an architect and engineer is required to optimize the aesthetic and engineering aspects of the program.

COPYRIGHT RULES

● Publishing copyrights to the winning entries will remain with the competition organizer, who also reserves the right to publish the entries in any media it sees fit. 

● Competition entries must not infringe the copyright of any other work, either in whole or in part. If copyright infringement is found, the entry in question will be disqualified.

● Please note that IndiaNext reserves the right to modify the competition schedule as it deems fit.