Invitation to Participate in Asian Contest for Architectural Rookie's Award 2018 : Indian Domestic Contest : Important stages of Rookies 2018 - 21/06/2018

PVP College of Architecture, Pune invites B.arch students of 3rd ,4th and 5th year of academic session 2018-19 to participate in Indian Domestic CONTEST 2018 for Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award (ACARA). 

The topic for this year ACARA is "Habitation". Therefore only “Habitation” projects like individual housing, group housing are eligible for the competition. 

Entries from 2nd, 3rd and 4th year B.Arch students of academic batch 2017-18 will be accepted. We kindly request you to encourage and select *Only Two Students* from your college to participate in the contest.

FOUR IMPORTANT STAGES OF COMPETITION: 

Stage 1: Online Registration

For registration please log on to : https://goo.gl/forms/NVZmrhUARuC3AbpD2

(Note: Read the entire info and instructions before you register)
The registration will be on First come basis and only first 60 entries will be considered

Stage 2: Online Submission requirements (Latest by Monday, 30th July 2018)

• Powerpoint presentation with maximum 10 slides and maximum 25 MB
• 4 number of A3 panels explaining your design in PDF format.

Please note: No Videos and Walk-through are to be attached in the presentation
(To be sent via email at ‘pvpcoapune.rookies@gmail.com’)

Stage 3: Reporting & Submission at PVPCOA, Pune ( From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Friday 3rd August 2018)
(Note: Submission for stage 3 to be done in person by the participant )
Submission requirements for Stage 3 are as follows:

REGISTRATION CHAGRES for PARTICIPANTS : Rs 300

• A1 Sheets :2 numbers (any medium is permitted, potrait or landscape format)
• Model of any suitable scale duly endorsed by the college
• Power point presentation in a DVD

Stage 4: Presentation of entries to the jury panel at PVPCOA, Pune (From 8:00am to 6:00pm, Saturday 4th August 2018)
(Powerpoint presentation of maximum 5 minutes for each entry as per Rookies standard format)

Please note  a detailed email with the registration code mumber and format of first slide of presentation will be sent to the registered final 60 participants.

BROAD DETAILS OF ACARA: 

ACARA is an International contest for students of Architecture, held every year in order to contribute to architectural education and establish rich networking associated with modern architecture in Asia. This design competition has its own uniqueness that it is open only for the current 3rd, 4th & 5th year students to present their 2nd, 3rd & 4th Year B. Arch Architectural Design work.

Dr. Youngil Lee from Japan is the Chief organiser for ACARA. The objective of ACARA competition is to review, judge & evaluate architectural works and ideas created by students studying architectural design in universities in various countries across Asia like Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Japan, Vietnam & India. 

 For the Indian domestic contest for architectural Rookies-2018, (hosted by PVP college of architecture) invitation will be sent to all the 400 plus colleges recognised by Council of Architecture in india.

 A) ELIGIBILITY: 

 1) Bonafied students of 3rd, 4th & 5th year B.Arch studying in any Architectural Institute in India recognised by Council of Architecture.

 2) The topic for this year ACARA is "Habitation" . Entries from 2nd, 3rd and 4th year B.Arch students of academic batch 2017-18 will be accepted.

 (Note: Max. 2 Individual Entries per College ; Group work will not be eligible; Only Architectural Design project of 3rd year B.Arch. done in academic session 2017-18 will be eligible.) 

 B) AWARDS : 

· Indian Contest – Top 2 Gold Awards worth Rs.10,000 each & 3 Silver Awards worth Rs.5000 each along with a certificate and trophy. 

 · Top 2 Gold winners out of these 5 awardees from Indian Domestic contest 2018 will be nominated to represent India for presenting their work in ACARA 20178

Opportunity for 2 Gold winners in the year 2013, 2014 , 2015 , 2016 & 2017 : 

· Winners of Indian domestic contest held in 2013 had an opportunity to represent India in Osaka, Japan 

· Winners of Indian domestic contest held in 2014 had an opportunity to represent India in Dalian, China 

· Winners of Indian domestic contest 2015 had an opportunity to represent India in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. 

· Winners of Indian domestic contest 2016 had an opportunity to represent India in Singapore.
· Winners of Indian domestic contest 2017 had an opportunity to represent India in Bangkok, Thailand.

 (Note: Travel and other expenses for Asian contest is reimbursed by the host of ACARA for the two Gold Winners)

 C) JUDGING CRITERIA :

 · Design will be assessed by Power-point presentation, Drawings (2 numbers of A1 sized panel) as well as Model for the Indian Domestic Contest 2018. 

· Students will present their work in the form of Power-point presentation for max. 5 mins each as per Rookies standard format. 

 (Details and dates of submission will soon follow) 

 D) JURY PANEL: Jury panel for Indian domestic contest for ACARA 2018 involves more than 10 jury members out of which 2-5 jury members will be from colleges with winning entries in 2016. 

 E) VENUE for Indian Domestic Contest for ACARA 2018

 VIT’s P.V.P. College of Architecture, Pune, , Aditya Nisarg, at-Pirangut, Tal.-Mulashi, Pune-412115 

 F) For INDIAN DOMESTIC CONTEST CONTACT:

 For further details please visit www.pvpcoapuneblog.blogspot.com For any queries write an Email on pvpcoapune.rookies@gmail.com

 G) REGISTRATION:

 Registration for ACARA 2018 is OPEN. Students can now register themselves at 

https://goo.gl/forms/NVZmrhUARuC3AbpD2

Contact for more details: 

Studtent Coordinators:

Neelakshi Jain
+91 7447307197

Mayur Pacharne
+91 7447828109

Faculty Coordinators:

Ar Mrunalini Anekar

(Faculty Coordinator for ACARA, PVPCOA) 

Mobile no +91 9823408033 

Ar Anushree Kulkarni

(Faculty Coordinator for ACARA, PVPCOA)
Mobile no +91 9739820398

Or email us at pvpcoapune.rookies@gmail.com 

Thanks and Regards,

Ar. Prof. Prasanna Desai, 

Director, 

VIT's PVP College of Architecture, Pune 

Convener, ACARA-2018

Poster for the Event