is year’s brief for HUDCO Trophy was “Rental Housing options for migrant workers”. In India, vast majority of the urban dwellers are informally employed and engaged in activities such as manufacturing in small family units, trading in small shops or on streets, domestic workforce, manual laborers to transport workers. Many them earn less than a living wage, are unable to afford decent shelter and resort to shared rented rooms in deplorable conditions.
In situations like this, “Social Rental Housing” is an important housing typology where rents are set below market rates to make it affordable even for the poorest segment of migrant population. Hence, HUDCO 2021 aims at generating efficient, adequate, sustainable and affordable rental housing options, understanding the brunt of the pandemic borne by the poor migrant workers informally employed / people in the informal work force, and, to offer them an improved quality of life to meet their requirements in a desirable manner.
Link to the brief: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14H4eurBCxO1vUYiVZboaNoF7RlacqJIq
Link to the poster: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKmTU6tB3ga/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The brief for the trophy was released on 2nd January, 2021. The registrations closed on 31st January, 2021 and the submissions closed with a total of 25 entries on 15th February, 2021.

Housing and Urban Development (HUDCO) was the moderator for the trophy. The jury members were Ms. Vijaya Vasu and Ms. Dina AP.

The competition came to an end with the following winning entries:
SPECIAL MENTION 2 - Z313, Priyadarshini Institute of Architecture & Design Studies
SPECIAL MENTION 1 - Z324, Institute of Design Education and Architectural Studies (IDEAS)
CITATION - Z407, ABIT Piloo Mody College of Architecture