Archasm Design Competition on Bombay ‘Film City Tower’ 2015-16

Organization : Archasm
Competition Name : Bombay ‘Film City Tower’ Design Competition 2015-16
Competition Last Date : 15th January 2016

Website : https://www.archasm.in/

Related: Autodesk 3D Student Design Challenge 2015 : www.contest.net.in/167.html

Bombay ‘Film City Tower’ Design Competition :

Archasm is an online international architectural competition organiser, blog and a comprehensive database aimed to storm the architecture and design fraternity with a portal where they could express their creative talent, passion and vision through open-idea competitions in the fields of architecture and design.

Archasm invites architects, students, engineers, designers, artists and philosophers to send in their entries for our competition

We welcome professionals and students from around the world and all spheres and ranks of education (architecture, design, art, engineering etc.) to give it a shot and compete among the brightest and the most creative minds on Earth.

Background :
** Mumbai, or erstwhile Bombay is the largest metropolis of India and an answer to the likes of Shanghai, London or New York. It is the financial capital and trade epicentre of the country, a city of lifestyles and narratives. The ‘Maximum City’ of Bombay is renowned all over the globe for the enormity and surrealism of BOLLYWOOD, which is the nickname given to the Hindi language Film Industry located in the city.

** The industry has come a long way and bloomed since its inception, to a multi-billion dollar industry, only second in capacity to its American cousin, Hollywood. Bollywood is a goliath in terms of revenue generation and employment, both direct and indirect, supporting a multitude of auxiliary industries like tourism, music, design and fashion. Bollywood’s film production centre is a government-owned studio facility known as ‘Film City’ in the northern suburbs of Mumbai.

** It is an integrated film studio complex with several recording rooms, gardens, lakes, theatres and grounds that serve as the venue of many Bollywood film shootings. The aim of this competition is to design a ‘Film City Tower’ in Bombay and explore the possibility of a new vertical typology for a film city. The project resolves to put Bombay and Bollywood on the global map through a futuristic and contemporary landmark for the city.

** The participants are tasked with proposing a new holistic and integrated vision to inject a new sense of purpose in a Film City. The proposal for the land intensive function of a film city is to be compacted and transformed into a vertical tower that would generate an exemplary urban form. The functions of a film city need to be optimised into vertical units.

** The design for the tower should explore the insertion of alternative energy methods, responsive and adaptive design techniques and self regulatory systems to strike an equilibrium between the input-output energy cycle. The proposal should insert a variety of public functions in the tower that would greet the public with a panorama view of the city.

Schedule :
** Start of Competition and Early Registration: 1st November 2015
** Early Registration ends: 15th January 2016
** Standard Registration starts: 16th January 2016
** Last Date for Questions: 31st January 2016
** Standard Registration ends: 14th February 2016
** Closing day for Submissions: 15th February 2016
** Announcement of Winners: 12th March 2016

Note: All Last Dates are 11:59 pm – 00:00 IST (India).

Awards :
Winning participants will receive prizes totalling INR 2,00,000 with the distribution as follows:
** First prize- INR 1,00,000/- + Certificate
** Second prize- INR 60,000/- + Certificate
** Third prize- INR 40,000/- + Certificate
** 10 Honorable mentions
** Top 50 – All fifty shortlisted entries will be published on our blog and social media pages. Winners and honorable mentions will be published on archasm’s website and several international architecture magazines and websites partnered by us.

Registration :

Early Registration:
From 1st November 2015 to 15th January 2016
** For Indian nationals- INR 1500 (per team)
** For Foreign nationals- EUR 60 (per team)

Standard Registration:
From 16th January to 14th February 2016
** For Indian nationals- INR 1800 (per team)
** For Foreign nationals- EUR 80 (per team)

Entrants may register by filling the registration form and submitting it with the appropriate payment through our secure gateway on our website archasm.in

*Note:
It will not be possible to amend or update any information relating to your registration including the names of team members once validated.