About Competition
Welcome to Designaddvance 2025, with the theme“Beyond the Game: Adaptive Arenas for Tomorrow”.
This year Designaddvance 2025 is an exploration of the future of public architecture. Our theme focuses on designing multi-purpose arenas that embrace the concept of flexible and reversible architecture— structures that can seamlessly transform, relocate, or disappear based on evolving needs.
Designaddvance 2025 offers students and young professionals a unique opportunity to propose innovative designs solutions for multi-purpose arenas that embrace flexibility, reversibility, and sustainability, responding to shifting social, cultural, and economic landscapes by integrating technology, materials, and structural innovations that enable adaptability over time.
Awards:
- Cash Prizes for the top three winners:
- 1st: ₹ 75,000/-
- 2nd: ₹ 50,000/-
- 3rd: ₹ 25,000/-
- Top 10 entries to be published on our website.
- Top 3 winners get free entry to ARKANCE IN BIM for Design Program (120 hours) worth Rs. 80,000/-
- All participants who have submitted the entries will get a discount voucher of 40% on the BIM for Design Program.
- E – Certificates for all participants who have submitted competition entries.
The Design Task:
Participants are challenged to design multi-purpose arenas that are flexible, adaptable, and reversible—spaces that can transform, relocate, or disassemble as needs change. The design should cater to both large events and small gatherings, ensuring seamless functionality, accessibility, and sustainability.
Team Composition:
- A maximum of three members per team is permissible.
- Participants may make teams with students from different academic years of study, colleges or even courses of Undergraduate or Postgraduate disciplines. However, at least one of the team members must be a student of architecture or a practicing architect who has graduated in the year 2023 or later.
Knowledge Resources by ARKANCE:
All Designaddvance 2025 registrants will get access free of cost to online Self-Learning Modules and Webinars by experts in sustainability, Industrialised Construction, BIM, energy simulation, and building innovations, conducted at regular intervals. This will help the teams understand concepts and best practices for high-performance design and construction. For more info, stay tuned at: https://www.designaddvance.in
Requirements / Eligibility
The competition is open to all Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students, as well as young professionalsfrom the fields of Architecture, Planning, Civil Engineering and Design, globally. Recent graduates and young professionals (who are practicing) are also eligible, only if they have graduated in the year 2023 or later
Submission / Key Dates
Important Dates:
Registrations Open: April 28, 2025
Registrations Close: October 16, 2025
Submissions Close: October 29, 2025
About the Organizer
Ethos Empowers, we are an organisation that builds awareness of our built environment, to provide more opportunities to budding professionals, and to create a platform, a network of young designers and civil engineers who will be decision-makers in the years to come. Today, Ethos has developed to be a bridge- between students undergoing education in colleges and the outside professional world.
To find more details & Register visit HERE
LAST DATE OF REGISTRATION: 16, October 2025
LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION: 29, October 2025
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