Designaddvance 2024: Assembly of Architecture - Industrialised Construction for High-Rise Buildings

Designaddvance is inviting all undergraduate and post-graduate students of Architecture, Planning, Engineering, & Design across the country to creatively integrate industrialised components to assemble a high-rise residential building that is delivered exactly as it has been designed.

Designaddvance 2024 invites you to reinvent multi-storeyed housing through the lens of Industrialised Construction (IC) and Prefabricated Components. Your task is to design a high-rise residential building or complex that not only provides safe and comfortable living spaces but also embodies creativity and sustainability from the design table to its execution.

The Design Task:
Designaddvance 2024 | Architecture of Assembly: Industrialized Construction for High-Rise Buildings, invites participants to showcase their ingenuity and drive positive change through their ideas.

- Participants are tasked with designing a high-rise residential building or building complex using Industrialised Construction (IC) - using as many prefabricated building components. The goal of this challenge is to maximise the use of industrialised elements in the design and execution of the high-rise structure.

- Demonstrate how a transition from unorganised to organised construction practices addresses the issues of quality (workmanship, consistency, and design delivery to site), workers’ protection (upskilling, formal contracts, and safer working conditions) as well as integrating sustainable design (reduced wastage and pollution, inbuilt energy-efficient materials, and a reduced construction period).

- Explore suitable construction materials and prefabricated components, and push creative boundaries while ensuring functionality and sustainability. Determine the repeating elements in your design like staircases, washrooms, balconies, facades, etc. and envision how the components will seamlessly come together to form the structure.

- Draw inspiration from the uniqueness of the site, context, history, local heritage, and arts and crafts and show an integrated approach with IC. Lend a distinct identity to even the standardised elements: to internal components as well as to externally visible parts like facades.

Participants are also suggested to further research IC and prefabrication of building components to create sustainable, inclusive and accessible spaces.

Timeline​

Registrations Open: April 15th, 2024

Registrations Close: October 7th, 2024

Submissions Close: October 17th, 2024

 

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