Students Awards & Achievements

2023-24

1) Ar. Tanvi Charde wins IIA Medal for Best Outgoing Student Award for 2023

Congratulations

2) Ar. Tanvi Charde and Ar. Madiha win 1st and 2nd place at MAHACON, Akola

Great achievement of SMMCA at MAHACON, Akola. Ar. Tanvi Charde awarded with First prize , Winner with 15000/- cash prize and certificate and Ar. Madiha awarded with Runner up trophy with 7000/- cash prize and certificate.

2021-22

1) Unnati Dhande wins IIA Medal for “Best Outgoing Student – 2022” at national level

SMMCA is happy to share that our student Unnati Dhande has been awarded “IIA (Indian Institute of Architects) Medal for Best Outgoing Student of the year 2022” at national level … !!

This is the 2nd consecutive year that SMMCA has bagged this award !

2) Rashi Agrawal wins IIA Medal for “Best Outgoing Student – 2021” at national level

The greatest reward for a teacher and an institute is when a student’s work and calibre is recognised not only at the city or state level but at the national level.

SMMCA is proud to announce that our student Rashi Agrawal has been conferred with the IIA (Indian Institute of Architects) Medal for Best Outgoing Student of the year 2021 … !!

3) COMPETITION – “Streets for People Challenge”

The Streets for People Challenge is an initiative of the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India, to inspire cities to create walking-friendly streets through quick measures, in response to COVID-19. The Challenge aimed to create flagship walking initiatives in cities, which focus on placemaking & liveability. The city led design competition aimed to crowdsource innovative ideas for designing and testing the pilot interventions through quick, low cost solutions. Goal of the competition was to reimagine streets as Safe, Healthy and Happy Public Spaces for all. Two flagship Pilot sites & two Neighbourhbood Sites were given.

Group 1: Bardi Street (Flagship Pilot Site)

Group Members: Radhika Dahikar, Rasika Pawar, Aniruddha Mantri, Shivani Soni, Vaidehi Deshmukh

Group 2: Mahal Market Street (Flagship Pilot Site)

Group Members: Divya Tadas, Kapil Kawale, Sakshi Pandya & Gaurav Bajaj

Group 3: Traffic Park (Neighburhood Site)

Group Members: Sanyukta shaw, Roshan Jahakar, Surbhi Adbe & Krutika Band

Group 4: Sakkardara (Neighburhood Site) (WINNING TEAM)

Group Members (UD Faculty group): Dr. Priya Choudhary, Ar. Tanvi Burghate & Ar. Gauri Rananaware

4) PAPER PRESENTATION – “International Design Research Conference 2020”

Krutika Band, with her Mentor Ar. Namrata Gaurkhede had participated in the international design research conference on “Architecture through Repurpose” organized by Aditya College of Architecture, Borivali on 11th and 12th December 2020. She had submitted a paper titled “Current trends in decentralization of waste management”. The paper discussed about current practices in decentralization of waste management in India. Amravati City in Maharashtra was taken as study area for proposal of a pilot project for the same.

5) COMPETITION – “Auto-Rickshaw Stand Design Competition 2021″

Introduced: April 2021

Competition

Organisers: Department of Sociology, SPPU, Pune and PVPCoA, Pune supported by Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan [RUSA].

Participants from SMMCA – Urban Design students

Group 1: Shankar Nagar Auto Stand, Nagpur (FIRST PRIZE WINNING TEAM)

Group Members: Kapil Kawale, Divya Tadas, Gaurav Bajaj & Sakshi Pandya

Group 2: Kargil Chowk Auto Stand, Betul (SPECIAL MENTION TEAM)

Group Members: Shivani Soni & Vaidehi Deshmukh

Competition Brief :

Rest, Read & Refresh – An Auto-Rickshaw Stand Design competition as part of an Action Research Project titled, ‘Let’s Make our City Smart’ lead by Dr. Shruti Tambe and supported by Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan [RUSA]. Aim of this programme is to create awareness about people and community cantered space design and to make neighbourhoods safe through community ownership and participation.

How can “SMART” also be socially sustainable?

The brief calls for the design of an AutoRickshaw Stand as a coherent community space linking the everyday life of AutoRickshaw drivers and the neighbourhood. Apart from addressing the functional requirement of parking for Auto-Rickshaws, the program includes a comfortable and safe space for the drivers to rest. Additional amenities like provision of clean drinking water, a newspaper reading space, washrooms with changing facility, and seating spaces for people needs to be envisaged.

Like the culture in most Indian neighbourhoods, the design should encourage a dialogue between the autorickshaw drivers and the community. This will allow auto-rickshaw drivers to be more involved and rooted in the community thereby making them feel included

Announcements of Results: On 6^th September 2021.

Glimpses of Felicitation:

6) COA STUDENTS’ AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTATION

Students of SMMCA got shortlisted for National Final Jury of COA Students’ Awards for Excellence in Documentation of Architectural Heritage 2019 titled “Documentation of wada complex Lonsavali village, Wardha with respect to its indigenous architecture” And won the cash price of 10,000 rupees.

“Documentation of Wada Complex of Lonsawali village Wardha with respect to its Indigenous Architecture“

2020-21

1) SMMCA bags all awards at Prof S A Deshpande Studio Design Competition – 2020

1st Prize – Ms. Shraddha Supare
2nd Prize – Ms. Andria Marinus
1st Prize – Ms. Priyal Patolia

2019-20

1) Unnati, Nikita, Poojita, Sadaf, Anushree Kane and Arti Katariya

Unnati, Nikita, Poojita, Sadaf, Anushree Kane and Arti Katariya were shortlisted for Shirke awards. After the jury at Sinhagad College of Architecture at Pune, Unnati Dhande from VI Semester won second prize.

2) SMMCA student Khadija won the prestigious award of 11th Prof. SA Deshpande Studio Design Competition – 2019.

The Indian Institute of architects (IIA), Nagpur Centre, conducts the Prof. S. A Deshpande Studio Competition for 7th semester students of architecture every year. all the architecture colleges affiliated to RTMNU and VNIT participate enthusiastically in the competition. This competition was started in 2009 to honour the contribution of Prof. S.A. Deshpande to the teaching profession and architecture.

The topic for this year’s competition was ‘the Gulliver Project’, which was mentored by Ar. Dev Bildikar, Bengaluru.

The brief talked about ‘ Measure, Distance, Scale, object autonomy and subject reversal. It also talked about binary signifiers and understanding one thing against the existence of others. The site was imaginary best suited to its purpose and the students has to develop a narrative , a story, a premise, conceptual forms with the possibility of infusing them with purpose and functions helping to reinforce the narrative.

The brief was introduced on 27th July 2019. all the students were expected to prepare by studying the brief and catching up with reading , watching movies or videos. the final design output was expected in A0 size sheets, PPT Presentation, movie or any mode of presentation.

Our college selected 12 students for the finals. Out of the 12 , 3 were selected for the finals – Ms. Rashi Agrawal, Ms. Pratiksha Shinde and Ms. Khadija Behrainwala.

On 26th Aug 2019, final jury was organised for all the finalists. Ms. Khadija Behrainwala from SMMCA won the 1st prize along with a cash prize of rs 5000. and a certificate. the competition was judges by Prof. Dev Bildikar, Bengaluru, Ar. Jayanth Gopal, Bengaluru and Ar.Giuseppe Morando, Italy. Two entries were selected through wild card selection out of which Ms. Radhika Agrawal of SMMCA was awarded a consolation prize.

The competition serves as a brain storming , knowledgeable and an intense learning platform for all budding architects.

The students should be thankful to IIA for providing such opportunities to explore multifaceted talents.

3) COA STUDENTS’ AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTATION

“Documentation of Wada Complex of Lonsawali village Wardha with respect to its Indigenous Architecture“

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