Landscape Foundation Students’ Design Competition 2017 is an attempt to encourage students to explore and visualize surrounding areas around monuments and heritage precincts with radical and fresh approaches so as to make them meaningful and relevant spaces along with the historical spirit in which they are sited, thus becoming part of the daily life of the city or a town or a village.

Theme

Architectural heritage sites are an invaluable part of a country’s cultural legacy. Conceptualized and created in a different epoch and context, they are memory markers of cultural history and give a sense of time to the place. These sites— historic palaces, forts, tombs and pleasure gardens, religious places, traditional streets and old water harvesting structures—are now public spaces. The physical and cultural contexts of these historical structures have completely changed with the character of open spaces around transformed. Largely due to the legislation of Central and State Archaeological Departments, these open areas are developed as gardens and parks or are left as uninviting, fenced open lands.

Is it the only way to conserve and protect these areas which at many times become inert islands, disconnected from the life of the city?

Can the area around New Delhi’s Red Fort—at present open lawns— be conceptualized as a cultural venue on the nation’s Independence Day and for the rest of the year, as a place for informal shopping, public rallies and performing arts—an accessible, vibrant public space? Or can the areas around Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort be developed as terraced fruit orchards? And can the zone surrounding Shaniwar Wada in Pune be visualized as a recreational hub, or are its formal gardens better suited for its present-day context? Many sensitive and relevant approaches and ideas can be envisioned for development of these spatial open spaces so that they become lively places relating well to the contemporary needs and concerns of the region.

This year’s competition theme—PAST CONTINUOUS IS FUTURE PERFECT— provokes students to visualize surroundings around monuments with fresh perspectives for them to be meaningful and relevant spaces with the historical spirit and become part of the daily life of the city or a town or a village.

Locus

You may select a heritage precinct / monument/ group of monuments with surrounding open space in India [in YOUR OWN REGION / COUNTRY - for other countries] that you think has a potential for exploring of idea. Map the heritage precinct with the open space around to communicate the physical context. Create an idea which relates the setting with the theme. Communicate the unique sense of experience and a sense of place it creates. You may select a site of an ongoing design studio or live project which fulfills the theme criteria. The idea matters. Unconventional and unique approaches towards the theme will be encouraged.

Any heritage precinct or archaeological site in India which is of historical, archaeological and historic interest and that has been in existence for not less than hundred years qualifies as a contextual site for the competition.

The creative interventions are ONLY for the surrounding open areas and NOT for inside of the premise within historical boundary.

In case of historic gardens, the area outside the boundary wall of the garden qualifies as a site for the competition NOT the garden itself.

Who?

The Competition is open to all students of spatial design disciplines {Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Conservation, Planning among others}, Design and Fine Arts studying in Undergraduate or Post Graduate full-time/part-time Degree/Diploma courses.

INDIA:

  • If you are studying in any one of the following courses anywhere in India:
  • 2 years Full time Post-Graduate Courses / Masters in Landscape Architecture / Urban Design / Conservation / Planning and others with / without specializations in any discipline
  • 5 years Full time Under Graduate Courses in Architecture / Planning, B. Arch / D. Arch / B. Planning
  • 4 years Graduate Diploma in Art / Design with / without specialization in any discipline
  • 2 – 2 1/2 years Full Time Post Graduate Diploma in Design with / without specialization in any discipline
  • You have graduated from any one of the courses noted above in May–July 2017

OTHER COUNTRIES: 

If YOU are studying in one of the following courses anywhere in PAKISTAN, NEPAL, BHUTAN, BANGLADESH, MYANMAR OR SRI LANKA:

  • Full time Post-Graduate Courses / Masters in Landscape Architecture / Urban Design / Conservation / Planning and others with / without specializations in any discipline
  • Full time Under Graduate Courses in Architecture and Planning, B. Arch. / D. Arch. / B. Planning
  • 4 years Graduate Diploma in Art / Design with / without specialization in any discipline
  • 2 – 2 1/2 years Full Time Post Graduate Diploma in Design with / without specialization in any discipline
  • You have recently graduated from any one of the courses noted above, in May–July 2017.

How?

Detailed Submission Format and Registration Form {to be submitted along with the entries} can be downloaded from the website.

Registration

  • Rs 1,500 Per Entry for Indian Participants
  • Rs 3,000 Per Entry for Other Countries (PAKISTAN, NEPAL, BHUTAN, BANGLADESH, MYANMAR OR SRI LANKA)
  • The registration fees is mandatory and is to be deposited at the time of the submission of the entry. It is non-refundable and non-transferable. Complete details of Participation, Submission
  • Guidelines and Registration are available on the competition website.

SUBMISSION:

You may submit the entry individually, OR You may also work in groups for the competition. The number of persons per group is limited to a maximum of THREE. Each participant in a group must individually fulfil eligibility requirements.

Any studio work submitted as an entry must be accompanied by a signed letter in original by the overseeing faculty member confirming the authorship of the work. The letter should also contain the contact details of the faculty member. Landscape Foundation, India reserves the right to contact the institution to verify the information provided, if required.

Please note that any sheet / sheets submitted as an entry must not have been published in any print media prior to the competition.

FOR INDIA:

All submissions are to be made as printed copies in the following format:

  • No less than ONE {1} A1 size sheet {594mm x 840mm, vertical format} and no more than TWO {2} A1’s. Entries are liable to be rejected if not submitted as per the requisite size and orientation. The sheets are NOT to be mounted on hard base / foam board / sunboard.
  • A concept note of a maximum of 250 words is to be composed in a box of size A5 {148mm x 210mm, Vertical} on the TOP RIGHT CORNER of the first sheet. No concept note on a separate sheet shall be accepted.
  • Each sheet shall be numbered sequentially in bottom right-hand corner with a recognizable title of the project. No reference of any kind will be made to the name of the participant{ s} or their associated institution{ s} / college{ s} on any of the sheets { except in the Registration Form and in the payment cheque / dd / transaction slips}. Failure to follow this direction will automatically disqualify the entry.
  • In addition to the above, the submission is also to include a CD / DVD or a Pen Drive containing “.jpeg” files of EACH SHEET in 300 dpi and 72 dpi resolution saved separately in two folders with concept note in “.doc” format.

FOR OTHER COUNTRIES:

All submissions are to be SENT BY E-MAIL and NOT AS HARD COPIES in the following format:

  • No less than ONE {1} A1 size sheet {594 mm x 840 mm, vertical format} and no more than TWO {2} A1’s. Entries are liable to be rejected if not submitted as per the requisite size and orientation.
  • A concept note of a maximum of 250 words is to be composed in a box of size A5 {148 mm x 210 mm, Vertical} on the TOP RIGHT CORNER of the first sheet.
  • Each sheet shall be numbered sequentially in bottom right-hand corner with a recognizable title of the project. No reference of any kind will be made to the name of the participant{ s} or their associated institution{ s} / college{ s} on any of the sheets { except in the Registration Form}. Failure to follow this direction will automatically disqualify the entry.

Jury

  • AGK Menon, Architect, Urban Planner & Conservation Professional
  • Anjan Mitra, Urban Designer
  • Suneet Mohindru, Landscape Architect

The Jury Session and an exhibition of all entries will be held at the Faculty of Architecture & Ekistics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Awards

  • First Prize Rs 50,000
  • Second Prize Rs 30,000
  • Third Prize Rs 15,000
  • Shriya Anand Award Rs 21,000
  • Plus upto Four Jury Special Mention Certificates