56 Final Year Architecture projects were received for Kurula Varkey Design Forum 2014 from institutions all over the Indian subcontinent, notably: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bangalore, Goa, Trivandrum, Jaipur and Mumbai, among many more. K V D Forum team congratulates and thanks all the participants who submitted their projects for the first round.

Selection jury, comprising Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya, Surya Kakani and Sachin Soni, eminent architects and academicians in Ahmedabad, was impressed with the diversity of projects and the attempts to address a variety of architectural issues through these. In most of the entries received for K V D Forum this year, the jury also noted a remarkable ability to communicate design ideas through various modes of drawing. Since this Forum is a critical platform to share and discuss the emerging architectural trends in academia and profession through student design projects, the entries were selected on basis of their engagement with concerned issues through architectural responses.