Jury Reports
9th ISDC 2011: Jury Report
January 31, 2011 | 
Author INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANE HABITAT (IAHH)
9th IAHH International Student Design Competition 2011
Theme: Appropriate Transportation and Infrastructural Development for Evolving Humane Habitats.
Host: Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India
JURY REPORT
We would like to thank all the entrants of the 9th IAHH International Student Design Competition on the theme of ‘Appropriate Transportation and Infrastructure Development for Evolving Sustainable Humane Habitats’. It was a challenging theme calling for participants to engage with the most complex urban design issues. Submissions were received from cities all over India and from as far afield as Iran and Japan. The number of entries this year was lower than in previous years and the general standard not as high. The jury felt that this was perhaps reflection of the difficulty of this year’s theme and therefore the efforts of those who completed the work and made their submissions.
Each member of the Jury took time to examine all of the entries submitted over a two day period. The jury met to discuss and review the work of a number of occasions and eventually drew up a list of the winning schemes and those worthy of honourable mention. The jury was held on 26th and 27th January 2011 at Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India.
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Jury Comments for 8th ISDC 2010
Report of Jury: 8th IAHH International Student Design Competition 2010
Fifty one competition entries from at least one dozen countries were examined by the jury on 27-28 January 2010. Professor Peter Schreibmayer was delayed in travel and joined on the 28th; hence he was unable to participate in the assessment for awards, but assisted in the deliberations.
The competition theme, Affordable Housing in Sustainable Humane Habitats, presented a formidable architectural challenge, and the jury was happy to note that the entries overall addressed very well the relevant issues arising from the theme. Viewpoints varied from a historical perspective of dwellings of indigenous people, to the integration of foreign migrants into the builtscape of industrial societies; from the rehabilitation of slum dwellers trapped in the expanding metropolis, to reinstating marginalized communities in pastoral landscapes being encroached by machine civilization.
It was noteworthy that the creative energy needed to find design solutions was perhaps derived from a studied focus on the dispossessed and marginalized sections of our societies. Design was approached generally as a process, starting with research into the context of the built environment reinforced with surveys and typological inventories to derive area planning strategies and a building methodology. Given the general high standard of work, the deliberations of the jury were lengthy and intense, leading to the selection of three quite evenly matched award schemes and six schemes for honorable mention. Read the rest of this entry »
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Report of the Jury: 5th ISDC 2007
The jury met on January 24th and 25th , 2007 at the Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, where twenty one projects received from different architecture schools globally, had been displayed.
It was evident that considerable amount of thought and effort had been put in by the students in the presentations. Generally, the concepts were very strong, based upon thorough analysis of the site, its environment and the prevailing socioeconomic conditions of the neighboring communities.
After detailed discussions on the merits of each entry the jury short listed seven projects and decided to award three prizes and ‘special mention’ to the other four projects.