Young Architects Competition

About The Event

"Surfboard" Community Centre

Surfboard Ventures (SV) will be building a state-of-the-art community centre for promoting entrepreneurship and start-ups in the Vasai-Virar area. For building this centre, SV is organising the “Surfboard” Community Centre Design Challenge, for creating a design and blueprint for building the centre.

This competition is open to the final year students and alumnus (2019 batch onwards) of Viva College of Architecture.

Participants should consider designs that are adapted to the local climate and tradition, and meet the Indian Green Building Code. In addition to the specific requirements outlined, participants are encouraged to be as creative as possible in the solutions they design. The jury will be looking for designs that challenge typical ideas of housing, design, and the community at large, while at the same time maintaining a practical element that ensures the realisation of these designs.

Competition

Competition is open to the current (final year) and former (from 2019 onwards) students of Viva College of Architecture. Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams (any team size is fine). Correspondence with organizers must be conducted in English. All information submitted by participants must be in English. Following is the guidance for the submission of the design blueprint:

1. Community centre with a total size 10000 sq. feet on two floors
2. Ground floor
1. Multi-purpose community/event hall of up to 4500 sq. feet
2. Cafeteria
3. Kitchen that is enough to feed 500 people when required
4. Rest rooms
5. Store room
6. Covered veranda around the hall
7. Bar
3. First floor - high quality 8 to 10 residential rooms
1. Each room up to 300 sq. feet each including attached bathroom
2. Provision for work desk, wardrobes, luggage racks, kitchenette and two queen- size beds
3. Attached balcony
4. Common area of up to 1000 sq. feet, small kitchen, comfortable seating, standing desks
4. Landscape design:
1. Sustainable organic landscaping
2. Incorporate existing trees in the whole design
3. Plant low maintenance trees
4. Parking facility should be away from the main building
5. Other considerations:
1. Submit design using tools such as Sketchup
2. Innovative cooling system to minimise dependence on Air conditioning
3. Water filtration, recycling and reuse
4. Rain-water harvesting
5. High ceilings
6. Utilise natural light
7. Provisions for Water filtration, recycling and conservation
8. Mosquito mesh in all living areas
9. Use Indian-style design and construction materials -
1. For example, suggest use of limestone, slate, stone, clay plastering, and other indigenous materials
2. Usage of sustainable woods such as Bamboo
3. Natural paints and plastering
10. Excellent daylighting for greater energy Efficiency
11. Zero-waste: Waste segregation at source and composting
12. Innovation in Design

Eligibility and expectations

Prizes and certifications

Cash prizes

• First Prize: ₹150,000
• Three consolation prizes of ₹50,000 each

Certificates

Certificates of achievement and mentions in Architecture publications. SV will also acknowledge the outstanding performance of all winners, and a few honourable mentions with Certificates of Achievement.

Recognitions

SV also encourages submissions of unique ideas and those ideas will be rewarded.
The winners will get international art and design media coverage and will be featured on the design websites and social pages.

Jury panel

All communication regarding the competition should only be carried out by the Jury panel that will comprise SV leadership.

Submission

Online submission of all the sheets in single PDF format to be emailed to sv@surfboardventures.com

Key dates (updated on 15 June 2022)

Registrations: June 03 till June 12, 2022
Site visits: 15 June | Future site visits could be arranged on request
Final submissions: July 15, 2022
Announcement of winners: July 22, 2022

Others

For site visits, documentation and other enquiries, please call Anuj Patel at +91 98925 84555