शनिवार, 1 मार्च 2008

"Water - Safe Sustainable and For All": A design competition for students of architecture and design.

Click here to download the high resolution Poster (640 KB)

Arghyam and India Water Portal are promoting this design competition with the objective of increasing awareness on the important issue of water as a resources that needs to be conserved and on the role that architects and designers could play in ensuring the same through their designs.



DESIGN COMPETITION


Click here to download the competition brief (1.4 MB)

To register visit: http://www.ethosindia.in/water/index.html


Reasearch Resources:

Rainwater Harvesting: http://www.indiawaterportal.org/tt/rwh has a huge amount of material to help you understand rainwater harvesting. There are many websites for Rainwater Harvesting, two notable ones are:

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org
http://www.rainwaterclub.org

Climate Data: Would you like to incorporate the rainfall pattern in your area into the design ? http://www.indiawaterportal.org/data/metdata has rainfall information for all of India for the past 100 years.

To learn more about Urban Water and the issues therein : http://www.indiawaterportal.org/tt/urban

To learn more about Sanitation, an integral part of Water management, go to
http://www.indiawaterportal.org/tt/sani
Do you know about Ecosan ?

Discussion Forum: Discuss the design competition. Share your comments, ask questions, see what others are saying.
http://www.indiawaterportal.org/Network/forum/viewforum.php?f=8

Please note that the above list of resources is only a partial guide. We do not insist that you implement the concepts mentioned and we would like you to explore a wide range of ideas and design concepts beyond those mentioned here.

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