STAY HOME & STAY PRODUCTIVE

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

THE HOUSE: INTERIORS

Crafting Home through spaces
1st March - 30th June, 2020

WORLD
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DESIGNING ‘living’ 01

Home designing as a subject, has evolved since centuries. When we think of ‘home’,
the mind traces the undulating contours of memories and experiences. The
memory of textures, and colours; of light and shade; of smells and sounds become
the intangible notions of what makes a ‘home.’ Homes make up layers of nostalgia
embedded in experiences. The touch of a coarse fabric against the smooth surface of
the wall, or of the sunlight filtered on finished floor becomes a unique experience
of space.

Interior spaces are not just designed forms,

but hold within them stories of the dweller’s
patterns of life. They allow an integration of
images, events, moments and movements, all
unfolding in film-like sequences, speaking to
each person and object inhabiting the space.
Hence, the surfaces of a home and the
elements of its décor, like a stage set, are
always in tandem. The objects spaced in an
interior setting, are not merely frozen in
time, but are conversant with one another,
and with the environment around them.
They have a unique dialogue with
architecture; with materials and surfaces of
the home, with windows and openings of the
room, and with spatiality and directionality
of the area.

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mission statement 02
This competition thus aims to know the participants’ idea of the interior home design,
in the context of any site that they select. It encourages participants to bring to life the
basic functionality of the house, and explore their own notions of what a ‘home' is.

The competition is open to participants creating new designs for the brief; or
uploading projects/assignments they might have done earlier in their academic
or professional careers. We urge Students, Interior Designers, Architects & Firms
to unwind back, and think through their earlier projects, and ask if their designs
address the above mentioned ideas of interior designs.

With creating something as sacred, and personal as a ‘home’, we seek designers who
celebrate the confrontations between man and space. We believe that home interiors are
more than just defining spaces as living rooms and bedrooms, or designating spaces for
sofa sets and beds. They are spaces of emotion and a state of mind. Interior design of any
home is more than just the standard layouts in plan. They have an inherent relationship
with everything around them. We thus seek designs of interior spaces that treat interiors
with empathy and respect, effectively merging aspects of aesthetics, environments, and
people with design.

GUIDELINES:
We leave the choice of the house typology to the participants. Be it an apartment, a villa,
a condo, or any space fitting into the definition of a ‘home’, participants are welcome to
submit their designs.
The competition welcomes any projects that participants may have done in the past,
ones actually executed; or just conceptualized. Accordingly, the freedom of site
selection, scale of the building, proportion of the built form to open space, distribution
of interior areas and all other aspects of functionality, are left to participants’
appropriate judgement and discretion.

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optional design
New design brief guidelines
03
Given below is a standard apartment block plan. Participants, who cannot upload
projects they may have done previously, the competition is open to participants creating
new designs for the brief.

Bearing in mind the area constraints, and spatiality of the space, designers are welcome
to explore their creative abilities and create novel approaches to the conceptual
enlivening of the space, as a ‘home’.

FLOOR PLAN

5
4 LEGEND
1. Living Room
8 2. Dinning
9 3. Kitchen
1
8 4. Master Bedroom
2
10
5. Bedroom 1
12
6. Bedroom 2
8 7. Bedroom 3
3 8
11 11 8 8. Water Closet
9. Terrace
6 7 10. Building Lobby
11. Lift
12. Entrance Lobby

(Floor to Floor height: 3.2m) N

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*Functionality aspects of each bedroom is left to participants’ appropriate judgement and discretion.

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submission requirement 04

The Proposal to be presented on One Landscape Oriented A1 Sheet.

Teamcode (UIC) to be mentioned on the Top Right-Hand corner of the sheet.
Proposal MUST NOT include ANY INFORMATION (name, Organization, School etc.)
that may give away your identity.
All text must be in ENGLISH, with a MAXIMUM of 250 WORDS for project
explanation.
Proposal may be presented using any technique of your choice (sketches, diagrams,
3D visualizations, model photos, CAD drawings, etc.)
All dimensions should be imperial or metric unit.

SUBMISSION FORMAT
TEAMCODE JPEG of your project must be submitted via
email to: submission@archdais.com
TEAMCODE must be the subject of the email.

A1
841mm X 594mm
Maximum file size: 8mb

Name of the file: Teamcode.jpeg

*Participants Teamcode will be provided by archdais once you have completed registration process
through PAYUMONEY or PAYPAL. Teamcode is your Unique Identification Code (UIC).

eligibility criteria
We invite everyone, irrespective of their professions or A TEAM CONSISTS OF:
qualifications, to join the competition and present their
ideas. Participants are free to submit multiple entries but each
entry needs to be registered by a separate email ID.
INDIVIDUAL TWO MEMBERS
Alongside individual entries, team entries are also allowed. A OR
team can have a maximum of three participants.
Interdisciplinary teams are also welcome to join. There is no
age limit, however, entrants under 18 years of age must be
lead or entered by someone over the age of 18. MAXIMUM
3 MEMBERS

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prizes 05
INR 50,000 INR 30,000 INR 20,000
CERTIFICATE + PUBLICATION CERTIFICATE + PUBLICATION CERTIFICATE + PUBLICATION

1 2 3

+
15 HONOURABLE MENTIONS
CERTIFICATE + PUBLICATION
All the winning entries will be published on archdais website and other media platforms

evaluation criteria
The competition aims to explore how the participants accommodate and weave in the
simplicity of everyday life in the classic house design. The evaluation criteria mainly
entail participants to think through the basic functionality of spaces of the house,
meaningful conceptualization behind design, thoughtful aesthetics, and expressive and
evocative presentation.

Entries will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

INNOVATION
The proposal displays exceptional creativity,
innovation in design and problem solving.

X-FACTOR
The proposal is original, exciting and has the potential
to effect positive change.

COMPLETENESS
All the requirements of the challenge have been met
and incorporated into the proposal.

REPRESENTATION
Creatively presenting the design on the sheet,
presentation has to be seamless.

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REGISTRATION fees & timeline 06

*All the Deadlines are 11:59 - 00:00 PM IST (INDIA)

EARLY REGISTRATION
1ST MAR 2020 - 15TH APR 2020
For Indian nationals - INR 1200 (per team)
For Foreign nationals - USD 30 (per team)
(Inclusive of all taxes)

STANDARD REGISTRATION
TH TH
16 APR 2020 - 15 JUNE 2020
For Indian nationals - INR 1500 (per team)
For Foreign nationals - USD 45 (per team)
(Inclusive of all taxes)

LATE REGISTRATION
TH
16 JUNE 2020 - 30TH JUNE 2020
For Indian nationals - INR 1800 (per team)
For Foreign nationals - USD 60 (per team)
(Inclusive of all taxes)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT

ST TH TH
1 JULY - 10 JULY 2020 15 SEPTEMBER 2020

*DISCOUNTS*
Group discounts apply for a minimum
of 5 teams from one particular
architecture school/university as our
initiative to promote more participation
from students. Get in touch with us on
competition@archdais.com to avail offer.
Name & contact details of all the
participating teams members and their
respective team leaders.
*IMPORTANT*
Entrants may register by filling the
registration form and submitting it with the
appropriate payment through our secure
gateway on our website archdais.com The
participants will receive their Teamcode
within 24 hours of completing their payment
successfully. Teamcode will be sent primarily
to the email address provided to
PAYUMONEY/PAYPAL while transaction.

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FAQ’s 07
Q. What is the minimum scale of the house interior
project to be considered?
Participants can submit a project from a micro house
or multi room house which will complete the house
functionally for an individual or more.

Q. Are multiple entries allowed for submission? or

can we submit multiple projects in one entry only?
Participants are free to submit multiple entries or
projects, but each entry must be registered by a
separate email ID. One sheet will have a One project
only.

Q. Any specific typology of houses to be considered

while participating?
Participants can submit any Interior Project, which
fits into a definition of a house. ex. a condo, a studio Q. What is the nature of the
apartment, a villa, Row House or a bungalow competition and is it open for
(from Micro to Macro Level) all?
The House: Interior, Design
Q. Do we need to submit only executed projects or we
Competition is an open ideas
can submit the projects at conceptual stage too?
design competition with no
Participants can submit any Interior Project, which intentions to execute the
are executed or at a conceptual stage or worked on proposals submitted in any form.
them in college. The competition is open to
students, Teachers, Designers
Q. It has to be a complete house interior project or a and professionals.
part of it will be considered?
Participants need to submit a complete house interior Q. How does a team receive their
project and not a part of it (Ex: a living room , a Unique Identification Code?
kitchen or a bath, etc. they have designed) All the Participants will only
receive the UIC after completing
Q. Is there any specific theme to be considered? the registration process. The UIC
We urge participants to come up with their most will be mailed on your registered
creative concepts (theme) they have in mind and not email address.
get restricted to one. It is open for all kinds of design
Q. What should the participants
ideas.
do in case the payments are not
available in our country?
Q. Is hand-drawn sheet allowed for submission?
We request the participants to
Yes, they are allowed, participants can scan and mail
send us the queries on
them to us on submission@archdais.com.Follow all
competition@archdais.com to
the regulations carefully.
get an alternate payment
method. We would send you all
the possible payment methods.

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Queries & regulations 08

QUESTIONS:
In case you still have questions related to the briefs and the competition, please send
them to competition@archdais.com with ‘FAQ’ subject until 20th April 20'.

We highly recommend our participants to check the FAQ section on the archdais
website as this will provide additional vital information from time to time.
All queries regarding registration process, fees, or payment should be sent on
the same email address with ‘ENQUIRY’ as the subject.

01. It is possible to amend or update any

information relating to your registration
including the names of team members once
registered, mail us on
competition@archdais.com

02. Participant teams will be disqualified if any

of the competition rules or submission
requirements are not considered.
Participation assumes acceptance of the
regulations.

03. T e a m c o d e i s t h e o n l y m e a n s o f
identification of a team as it is an
anonymous competition.

04. The official language of the competition is

English.

05. The registration fee is non-refundable.

06. C o n t a c t i n g t h e J u r y i s p r o h i b i t e d .

07. Archdais as the competition organizer,

reserves the right to modify the competition
schedule if deemed necessary.

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