HUDCO TROPHY 2022-2023

Housing solution for Native Communities

Moving towards a ‘developmentalist’ paradigm

Background
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in a vision that aims to transform our world.
This vision is of great significance to the over 370 million indigenous people worldwide, who have
historically suffered grave injustices and many of whom continue to face marginalization, exploitation
and exclusion. Amongst other threats with the rapid urbanisation, increasing pressures placed on
natural resources, focus on environmental conservation etc., these native communities have been
losing access to the traditional lands and territories which further exacerbates their already insecure
livelihoods, in the agricultural sector. Even though great strides have been made in the eradication of
poverty, indigenous peoples are still among the poorest of the poor. Under the pressure of the
increasing insecurity of their livelihoods, coupled with other factors like limited opportunities in the
formal economy, many have migrated away from their traditional areas to border towns to seek a
living in the informal economy.

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Project Brief
With growing limitations and the challenges indigenous people have found it difficult to adjust to the
situations, climate, available materials and many more. Besides this the rapid development around
has been disturbing the traditional socio-cultural set up which supports the typical quality of life of
these indigenous people. The government of India has been putting all efforts to bring tribal people in
the main stream of society.
In line with SDGs, the World Habitat Day 2022 was also observed under the theme “Mind the Gap:
Leave No One and Place Behind” with the objective to encourage harmonious interactions among
people and to advance human equality. Therefore, in the context of indigenous people/native
communities in India, the goal is to put them on a sustainable footing, which requires sustainable
Native economies, institutions, human capital, and legal frameworks that promote economic diversity
and leverage other sources of capital. Housing, in that sense, is vitally important. Historically these
people tend to live in isolated communities in hills and forestlands, far from urban centres. Their homes
often fail to meet their spatial and cultural needs, and the consequent alienation the Native’s suffer,
exacerbates the overall sense of poverty, dislocation, and cultural conflict. Looking for ideas “Housing
solution for Native Communities: Moving towards a ‘developmentalist’ paradigm” thus forms the
theme for the HUDCO-NASA DESIGN Trophy 2023.

Aim
HUDCO NASA DESIGN Trophy 2023 aims at building momentum towards a ‘developmentalist’
paradigm where tribal communities would no longer suffer from a lack of housing, and have housing
which promotes cultural customs for holistic wellbeing, and also, draws on traditional building
techniques and designs. The theme is aimed at bringing focus on challenges faced by ‘Native
Communities of Tripura’, their issue of inequality, and, at finding solutions to their housing problem.

Objectives
The overarching objective of HUDCO NASA DESIGN Trophy 2023 is to develop, for the indigenous
people of Tripura, prototypical design ideas for the housing and the residential environment at three
different levels: 1- the dwelling unit level, 2- at the level of the immediate community formed by the
clustering dwellings within a neighbourhood and the indoor/outdoor spaces they share, and 3- at the
level of the site plan. The specific project objectives, call for:
• Using the concepts of affordable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly housing
incorporating indigenous know how in the design and construction of the houses.
• Utilize green building techniques for energy saving benefits. With all the construction
technologies available today it is important to choose the right techniques for the tribe.
• Provide shared interaction space within site plan.
• Use modular construction to help keep the construction costs at a minimum as well as increase
the flexibility and personalization of individual houses, and
• Quick to construct.

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Design Brief
HUDCO as part of the HUDCO-NASA Design Trophy 2023 invites student architects to provide design
solution to build healthier homes that employ sustainable, locally sourced, and often natural materials
or otherwise that can stand the test of time and are ideally suitable for the extreme climatic conditions
of the place. Also, the homes should operate efficiently and passively, taking advantage of warmth
from the sun and cooling from shade and wind, and respond to local climate. The neighbourhood
should help promote cultural customs, holistic wellbeing and draw on traditional building techniques
and designs.

• About the Site:

The Site is in Agartala (Tripura), atop a plateau land and measures around nine acres (270 M * 70
M). A 9 M wide main road runs in the front along the 270 M side with forest area surrounding the
site on other sides. The main road connects to NH at about 800 mts.
Opposite the main road is mixed use development with RCC/Tripura type buildings.
Services like electricity, deep tube wells, telecommunication tower are available around
the site.

• Design Parameters:
A total of 700 DUs is to be provided having a mix of 500 HIG DUs of carpet area 150 SqM, 150 MIG
DUs of carpet area 120 SqM and 50 LIG categories houses of 70 SqM in low rise G + 2 / G + 3
development. Each house will include a living space, dining space, kitchen, bedrooms, and
bathroom units. Additional common facilities as per norms to include children play area, car
parking area, Club house and Cultural Hall, Shopping arcade etc.
The project site should have provision for sewerage treatment plant (STP), Electric substation (ESS)
and power backup/Gen. set for common/core areas. Also, provision needs to be made for Solar
Street lighting and cavity walls / blocks for insulation and energy saving (as required), rain water
harvesting etc. and other facilities as deemed necessary.
Note: The Model Building Byelaws and NBC norms may be referred.

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Selection Criteria for Entries
The merit of the competition entries will primarily be evaluated based on deliverables:
1. Providing for a hybrid of modern green design elements and indigenous knowledge
2. passed down through the generations;
3. Designed to conserve resources, featuring rooftop solar panels, grey water systems, rainwater
catchment systems, and an envelope designed for passive heating and cooling;
4. Designed to develop an environment that allows to maintain the cultural continuity with forward
looking architectural solutions typically driven by practical needs and cultural belief;
5. Basic architectural design decisions, such as building orientation, configuration, or
6. selection of building materials; and,
7. A detailed report outlining the concept/ strategy used for construction of houses /
8. neighbourhood planning, to maintain environmental sustainability.

Submission Requirements
• The scale of the drawings is left to the discretion of the participants.
• Participants may use views, perspectives and any other means felt suitable and relevant to
explain the design proposal.
• The number of presentation slides/panels should not exceed 20 of A2 size
• The presentation should be supported by a report (Maximum of 15 A4 size pages).
• All entries must be prepared using metric units of measurements.
• The presentation/report must mention the source, where applicable.

Important Dates
• The release of brief: - 17th December 2022
• Registration Deadline: - 17th January 2023; 1800 hours
• Queries till: - 1st January 2023; 1800 hours
• Submission Deadline: - 1st February 2023; 1800 hours

General Submission Guidelines

Failing to comply with any of the guidelines may lead to disqualification at the discretion of the
council.

• All text should be in English.

• The projects should use the decimal metric system and contain a metric graphic scale in
order to enable publication in reduced formats.
• The format of the sheets should clearly mention the name of the trophy followed by the year
i.e. “HUDCO Trophy 2022-23”
• The format of the sheet should contain a square box of 25mm*25mm at the bottom right-hand
corner, next to the NASA INDIA logo which should have the unique registration number
allotted to the participants after registrations.
• The scale is left to the discretion of the participant(s) to the condition that the scale should be
in metric system and all the drawings should be clear and legible.
• Manually rendered entry should be scanned at least in 300*300dpi (dots per Inch) resolution.

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• The soft copy (non-editable format) of the sheets along with authentication letter, declaration
letter and any other required documents prescribed in the submission requirements should be
uploaded on the website by the submission deadline.
• The soft copy file of the sheets should not be corrupted or incomplete or in low resolution.
• It is mandatory to produce the original copy of the Authentication Letter for each entry(entry
code should be mentioned if allotted) with the name of participant(s) and stating the unit will
abide by whatever may be the final results and also agree that this entry is a property of both
the institute and NASA India. The Authentication Letter should be signed by the HOD/
Principal/ Director of the unit on the letterhead of the college.
• It is mandatory for the colleges to produce the original copy of the Declaration Letter for
each entry(entry code should be mentioned if allotted) signed by the participants stating the
work submitted is genuine and they have endorsed copy- rights for the same and to adhere
by all the rules and regulations, jury process and the results.
• The working files in editable formats of the Shortlisted Entries should be submitted to the
Council, failing which, the submission requirements would be deemed incomplete leading to
the prize money being withheld.
• Shortlisted Entries with manual hand-done sheets should submit high quality scans(min.
300*300 dpi) along with the content in a word document of the shortlisted entries should be
submitted to the Council, failing which, the submission requirements would be deemed
incomplete leading to the prize money being withheld.
• Any misconduct such as exposing identity through college name/ stamp participant(s) name
or college code on the sheets or the video will be disqualified.

Sheet and Nasa India Logo Guidelines

Failing to comply with any of the guidelines may lead to disqualification at the discretion of the
council.

• The sheet template to be followed is available at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vdPl5daY7aD_HKr40gY9w-sS9f4zTGIS?usp=sharing
• The entry code and Logo position should remain same as the template.
• NASA India Internal Logo shall always be placed on the right-hand bottom corner of the
sheet.
• NASA India logo should not be merged, overlapped etc. with any sort of text, graphic, image,
etc.
• NASA India logo should be in true black with a perfectly white background.

Checklist For Submission

1. Online Submission
2. Original Copy of Authentication Letter
3. Original Copy of Declaration Letter
4. Editable Format of the Sheets (Applicable if shortlisted)

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Other Information

• Maximum One (01) Number of Entries Will Be Accepted Per College.

• Queries can be put forward through the trophy page on the
website(http://www.nasaindia.co)
• Registration should be done by the Unit secretary in NASA India website before the registration
deadline.
• Registration of the trophies will be final and cannot be changed or withdrawn henceforth.
• All the entries should be uploaded separately during the time of online submission.
• Late Registration and submission will not be entertained and henceforth the defaulters shall
be disqualified.

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