The challenge is to design a Co–Working commercial space for freelancing Architects, Studios for established firms & a Learning Center for architecture students. The Competition aims to design a facility wherein students can work & learn along with the practicing professionals.
The aim is to design a facility dedicated to only architecture students & professionals with 40 studios of small & medium size design firms, working space for 60 students & 30 freelancing architects, a library ( digital + conventional ), a material lab, stationary, printing & model cutting provisions, an exhibition hall, indoor games room & two seminar halls with each having seating capacity of 150 people to hold any architectural event in the premises. Gardens, amphitheater & other outdoor areas can also be added.(Lifts, Staircase & Common toilets). The Challenge is to design spaces that allows for interaction between students & professionals with an aim to create an one of its kind Architectural Design Community.
The major thought behind the competition is to design a facility where the design students & professionals work together encouraging design dialogue, interactive sessions, workshops etc& a new generation of Architects.