CHENNAI: SAP, Chennai won the Transparence 2008, a design competition for undergraduate students of Architecture and Interior Design. The grand finale was held at Trident Hilton on Saturday. Among the eight teams which competed for the finals, Aditya R, Apoorva Madhusudan and Lakshmi K of SAP, Chennai walked away with Rs 75,000, a trophy and a certificate instituted by Saint Gobain Glass India.
The grand finale also saw the launch of Transparence 2009. The objective of Transparence 2008 is to inspire architectural students to use glass as a structural and decorative element. The secondary objective is to build a sustained relationship with the next generation of architects.
Saint Gobain Glass India Managing Director B Santhanam said Indian architect is taking centre stage now. Talking about the competition, he said there was a tremendous response with 573 registrations across 90 colleges from all over the country.
The theme for the competition was ‘MediaPlex’, an innovative and futuristic media and communications city tower. Eminent architects Karan Grover (Karan Grover Associates, Vadodara), Naresh Venkataramanan of Venkataramanan Associates, Bangalore and Meena Mani of Mani Chowfla Architects, New Delhi, judged the final eight teams for their concept, innovation in design/creativity, innovative use of glass, technical superiority of design, relevance to context, practicality among others.
SAP Chennai (Cibi and Vaishnavi SR) and Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, (Sonam Ambe, Sneha Hamand, Prashant Jadhav) were the first and second runners-up.
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