Dr. Girja Vyas,
Minister for Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) presented
HUDCO Design Awards 2013 to winning
participants in a function organized by Housing and Urban Development
Corporation (HUDCO) here today. The awards were given away by Dr. Vyas,
in the presence of Shri A.K. Misra,
Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Govt. of India,
Shri V.P. Baligar, CMD,
HUDCO and senior officers of the Ministry and HUDCO.
In its second year, HUDCO Design Award received
overwhelming response from all over the country. The entries were judged by a
three-member jury consisting of eminent architect, planners and landscape
specialists. The Jury chose 15 winning
entries in total, which included 1st, 2nd and
Commendation prize in five categories.
There are two winners of second prize in the category “Conservation of
Heritage” while in the Category Landscape Planning & Architecture the Jury
abstained from recommending second prize.
HUDCO’s contribution as the premier techno-financial
institution in the country is not limited to housing finance but includes
various other pertinent initiatives to contribute to the cause of sustainable
urban development. In keeping with this
tradition, HUDCO instituted HUDCO DESIGN AWARD in 2012 to give
recognition and felicitate innovative ideas and initiatives that contribute to
make our cites inclusive, livable and environmentally
sustainable. The Award has 5 categories and includes HUDCO DESIGN AWARD trophy,
certificate and prize money of Rs. 4.00 lacs (four lacs) and Rs. 2.00 lacs each for
First and Second Prize winners respectively in each category. Commendation Prize contains prize money of
Rs. 50,000 each (fifty thousand) each.
The HUDCO Design Award 2013 winners are:
Category: Cost effective Rural / Urban Housing including Disaster Resistant
Housing
First Prize:
q In Situ Slum Rehabilitation
Project for Urban Poor under BSUP, JNNURM scheme at Pune,
Maharashtra by Prasanna Desai, Pune.
Second prize:
q Design of disaster resistant,
affordable, green, environment friendly and culturally relevant houses for
earthquake affected people of Uri, Jammu & Kashmir by National Centre
for Peoples' Action in Disaster Preparedness, Ahmedabad.
Commendation Prize:
q Kairali Tribal Settlement, Mukkilpeedika, Wayanad Kerala by PK
Sreenivasan, Vasthukam, Thrissur.
Category:
New & Innovative Design Solutions / Eco-cities,
First Prize:
q Himatnagar Canal Front Development, Gujarat by HCP Design, Planning &
Management Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad.
Second prize:
q Supratik Township at Nagpur by Beri Urban & Environmental
Planners LLP, Pune.
Commendation Prize:
q Uttorayon Township, Siliguri by
M/s Morphogenesis,
New Delhi.
Category: Conservation of Heritage
q First Prize:
Façade Restoration and Streetscape of the Walled City Bazaars, Jaipur by Development
& Research Organization for Nature, Art and Heritage, (DRONAH) Gurgaon.
Second Prize:
q Conservation
of State Maritime Museum, Cuttack, by Asheesh
Srivastava, ANB Consultants, Lucknow.
q Conservation
of Shri Govindji Temple, Imphal, Manipur by Design
Consortium, New Delhi.
Commendation Prize:
q Conservation
and Reuse for Ghat Ki Guni, Jaipur by Development & Research
Organization for Nature, Art and Heritage, Gurgaon.
Category: Green Buildings
First Prize:
q MON-Chasha :
A Community initiative of Rural Tourism, West Bengal by Anjan Mitra,
The Appropriate Alternative, Kolkata.
Second
Prize:
q The
International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs/Kanthari
International, Thiruvananthapuram by COSTFORD, Thiruvananthapuram.
Commendation
Prize:
q Green
Spaces Realtors - Office Building at Nashik by VK:e
Environmental, Pune.
Category: Landscape Planning &
Design
First Prize:
q Dr
Ram Manohar Lohia Park, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, by Mohammad Shaheer,
Shaheer Associates, New Delhi.
Commendation
Prize:
q OTS
Nallah, Development Project, Jaipur
by Dr. Rajiv Khanna, New Delhi.
On the occasion, a book titled “HUDCO-NASA Design Trophy
2013: Night Shelter for Homeless” was also released by the Dr Vyas . HUDCO NASA Design Trophy is another
initiative of HUDCO that appreciates and encourages innovative ideas among
students of architecture by sponsoring a trophy for the competition organized
by National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA) on themes, which are
contextually relevant. In the context of
the urgent need of adequate and appropriate Night Shelters in Indian cities, the
theme for the competition in 2013 was “Region Specific Designs for Day / Night
Shelters with Appropriate Use of Cost Effective Indigenous Technologies”. The publication is a compilation of
innovative design ideas for Night Shelters by young students of architecture
from various colleges across the country.
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