IGBC Green Design Competition 2019

About Indian Green Building Council (IGBC)

The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) was
formed in the year 2001. The vision of the council is, "To enable a sustainable built environment for
all and facilitate India to be one of the global leaders in the sustainable built environment by 2025”.
The council offers a wide array of services which include developing new green building rating
programmes, certification services and green building training programmes.

The council offers a wide array of services which include developing new green building rating
programmes, certification services and green building training programmes. The council also
organises Green Building Congress, its annual flagship event on green buildings.

The council is committee-based, member-driven and consensus-focused. All the stakeholders of

construction industry comprising of architects, developers, product manufacturers, corporate,
Government, academia and nodal agencies participate in the council activities through local
chapters. The council also closely works with several State Governments, Central Government,
World Green Building Council, bilateral multi-lateral agencies in promoting green building concepts
in the country.

With this background, IGBC has launched the Green Affordable Housing Rating with the premise to
develop housing that is appropriate to the needs of a household and within their means to pay along
with being environmentally conscious. The overarching objective of this rating would be to ensure a
high degree of sustainability with no/meagre additional cost to the developer or the occupant.

Therefore, the approach would be to selectively adopt those measures that are simple and yet have
profound impacts in conserving the environment. Few of the attributes that would define the
success of implementing sustainability in this segment are:

- Green measures should be easily implementable

- Easy to monitor and measure
- Operation & maintenance friendly throughout the life
- No / Meagre costs to end-user

Applicability of Rating System

The Green Affordable Housing Rating is applicable for housing projects designed with carpet-area
less than or equal to 60 sq.m per dwelling unit, which constitutes to atleast 70% of the total project
built up area.

More details can be found at:

https://igbc.in/igbc/redirectHtml.htm?redVal=showAffordableHousingnosign#GreenHomes

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Revitalising Unorganized Settlements | Empathise, Examine, Engage, Enliven

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every
heart, there is the power to do it.

Marianne Williamson

Designers have the power to facilitate and empower! We hope that you ‘Design like you give a
damn’ following Cameron Sinclair’s book by the same title; design to empower, to facilitate well-
being and enhance capabilities.

This is a call for interventions to make a difference in the lives of the urban poor, those below the
poverty line in urban areas, through empathetic designs. You are invited to focus on the ‘means’ of
enhancing capability in order to achieve the ‘end’ result. The possible routes that you could take are
outlined below. They are not exclusive and could run simultaneously and overlap too.

Empathise

Put on your shoes and explore your city; see how the other half lives.

1. Identify any informal settlement you have easy access to.

2. Talk to the residents (choose people across different age groups, gender and social-cultural
background). Ask them about their life, routine, festivals, rituals; neighbours and
community; their aspirations, their past. Talk about safety, access to facilities, basic needs,
nutrition and diet, schools, education, play and opportunities.
3. Explore their current dwellings and try to understand their evolution. Dense, congested,
overcrowded- yet, they find space for playing, community gatherings, celebrating festivals,
weddings and much more.

These discussions will help you empathise. You will no longer be a total outsider, you know parts of
their personal stories as well; and thus, you can design to make their lives better.

Examine

Put on your thinking hats; examine what the government has offered.

1. Study the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana aimed at Housing for All with reference to in-situ
rehabilitation of slum dwellers though public private partnership.
2. Critically appraise the scheme and policies set under PMAY.
3. Suggest a change/addition to the scheme based on your study.
4. Discuss the idea with the residents and take their suggestions.
5. Write a 500-word (maximum) note on your proposition. It should include the statement of
the proposal, why it needs to be added, how it will benefit the end user, and can this idea be
generalised to the entire country (Please note that your idea will not be marked on its
universal appeal alone, certain suggestions are very site-specific and it would not be proper
to generalise it to our diverse country).

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 6. Suggest a revenue model instead of the free-sale component (which often leads to
gentrification of neighbourhoods and pushes back the poor to informal settlements) such
that the density on the land or the load on infrastructure is not increased. Appropriate it to
the skills of the residents such that the proposal allows them to take charge.

This examination will help you internalise the policies and support offered to your Users.

Engage

Put on your working gloves; give back to the community

Your ideas are meant to articulate an array of inter-disciplinary strategies, considered through a
range of time periods- from short-term to long-term; transitory to permanent shown through
phased development.

1. Think about participatory design and planning and how your ideas can be actually realised
on site. Will they be approved by the community and individual households? How can the
users be involved themselves to the design and construction process?
2. What are some local principles of sustainability that can be enhanced and scaled up? Include
local materials, crafts, skills and innovative solutions in your design.
3. Plan the different stages for incremental development in coordination with the family
requirements and include a financing plan for the different stages with the family.

Engagement will not only make you understand your power as a designer but you will also be
giving back to the community and not simply visiting and studying them (which is what most
research/studies end up doing).

Enliven (micro)

Pull out your tracing sheets; let the ideation begin

There are two components to the design problem. Participants need to work on both for a complete
submission.

A. Community Intervention: Add to the Commons

1. Based on your onsite studies and community interaction identify one core public function
(Anganwadi, dispensary, waste management system, urban garden, play zone etc.) that can
be developed as a small-scale design problem.
2. Identify a site of not more than 200 sq.m and create a program for the same. This need not
be the regular plain ground we are used to; you can use the roofs, create a bridge over
pipelines, use temples and their courtyards, adaptive re-use an abandoned building. You
may even design temporally e.g.: The dhobi ghat shuts at 8.00 pm and when the washer

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 men leave the space is converted to a night school classroom by a makeshift collapsible
design.
3. The design and details must be developed such that the proposal can be executed on site.
Take into consideration the local laws and community approval. Your intervention should
not create any conflicts, but be supported by the community and other stakeholders.
4. The budget for the proposed intervention should not exceed Rs. 2 lakhs.
5. If possible, take into account adapted replicability of your intervention to other similar
contexts in your city/region.

A good case study for micro intervention is http://architecturelive.in/mod-skool-yamuna-khadar-

new-delhi-swati-janu-nidhi-sohane/

Enliven (macro)

B. Housing Design

1. Identify the living condition predominant in the settlement- purely residential,

industrial/production/commercial along with residential.
2. Identify a residential area of 50-150 households. Understand the site, surroundings and
context.
3. Identify the category of users it is closest to in the PMAY policy document.
4. Design a housing for the identified household units taking into account all necessary services
and amenities.
5. Each dwelling unit needs to provide a comfortable living environment for a family of 5 with
25-30 sq.m carpet area (based on the category chosen as per PMAY) and the predominant
living condition. Think of incrementality; will the house grow with the family?
6. Plan for ancillary, community functions based on the community aspirations. Take into
account the needs of different users and their specific needs- women safety, accessibility for
aged etc.
7. Propose in-situ rehabilitation of existing slum dwellers using their land as a resource.
8. How can this housing be financed? Currently, the rehabilitation is driven by private
participation and funded by the free sale component. The free sale component not only
increases the density and the load on infrastructure, but also creates gated alcoves of a
divided rich and poor society. Propose a solution for revenue generation through the
capabilities of the residents, thus suggesting an alternative to the free sale component in
public private partnership model.
9. For this competition the project need not cross 50-150 households. If the settlement has
more than 50-150 units, kindly plan the solution in phases and detail the first part with
appropriate community spaces.
10. Submit your design in a maximum of 6 A3 sheets

Enliven and Empower lives through your design

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Eligibility

Open to all undergraduate students of Architecture and Design across the country. (Students who
have graduated in 2019 are also eligible to participate)

Team Composition

Maximum of two members per team. Facilitation by and involvement of faculty members is desired.
It would be extremely useful to the students if this could be incorporated into the curriculum of the
students in the manner found suitable by the faculty.

Awards
1st Prize: Rs. 50,000/-

2nd Prize: Rs. 30,000/-

3rd Prize: Rs. 20,000/-

Important dates

Winners get an opportunity to participate in the Green Building Congress held from 25th – 28th
September 2019 at Hyderabad.

Last date for registration: 5th August 2019

Last date for submission: 18th August 2019

Requirement for submission

 A maximum of 6 A3 sheets including the cover sheet shall be sent only as soft copy to
ethosindia.helpdesk@gmail.com
 The scale of the drawings may be chosen by you depending on the site and area of
intervention.
 The soft copies should be sent as pdf presentations or power point presentations to be
compatible with Microsoft office 2010.
 Do not write your names on any of the sheets. Name your entry file as your name/college
name. Any entries that have their name/ college name on the sheets are subject to
disqualification.
 While mailing, in the subject box please write: IGBC 2019 – your name/college name.
Please restrict yourself to a maximum word limit of 300 words per sheet. More graphical
presentations will be appreciated.

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  Acknowledge references used for case studies and also any design ideas that have been
adopted or adapted. Any plagiarized content with no cited reference will be subject to
disqualification.
 We would also require you to furnish a letter stating that the design is your property.

Evaluation Criteria

 Site selection- understanding of the community, existing dwelling structures and aspirations
and community interaction
 Concept and design intent
 Originality
 Response to context
 Innovation
 Area program: Understanding of the user and space
 Proposition for community participation, replicability and financing model (where
applicable)
 Efficient use of space: Macro and micro design solutions
 Efficient use of renewable resources, innovative sustainable and resilient solutions
 Presentation

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