BRIEF: Competition is open to everyone including students and professionals. Design a furniture, which is ergonomically sound, cost effective, environment friendly and feasible to build in neglected communities. As we all are aware, inhabitants in slums and other neglected communities lack space to accommodate. The furniture designed shall fit and transform from smaller spaces to larger spaces, based on adaptive user need, help them to store, sit, sleep, read, and write and more.
“If you think you have a great idea? Its your chance to show it. We will build and share it with communities.”
Ketham’s Atelier Architects is international practice based in India. Earlier, Ketham’s Atelier had made low cost furniture and trained students, widow women and others in neglected communities in making and donated the same to these communities. Ketham’s Atelier would support these competition winner designs and helps in developing design further and construct prototypes of it and will donate it to Thinking Hand NGO. NGO, who will share it with neglected communities. Below photo gallery shows furniture build and shared earlier.
EVALUATION CRITERIA:
Innovative Quality in design Material (Environment friendly) Stability and structure Build-able idea Expressing idea clearly on paper
AWARDS: First, Second, Third and Two special mentions
Winning Project will be Build by Ketham’s Atelier Architects Winning projects in Publication Winning projects will receive Certificate Built furniture will be Shared in Neglected Communities.
Organised & Funded by Ketham’s Atelier Architects Source: http://www.kethamsatelier.com
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