10 - 14 DEC 2025 PUNE
SMART HOME
Design Competition
Join us in shaping the
future of off-grid living!
The SMART Grid-Free Home Design Competition
invites visionary architects, designers, engineers, and students to redefine the future of sustainable housing. This competition challenges participants to design a self-sufficient home that is completely off-grid, built with locally available materials, and constructed using traditional skills.
With a focus on energy independence, water sustainability, and eco-friendly architecture, the competition aims to create homes that are not only environmentally responsible but also economically viable - especially for rural communities and farmers. Winning designs will showcase innovative, scalable, and climate-resilient solutions for modern sustainable living.
Requirements
This Home should take the fullest advantage of what
Nature Offers. It should be the Nature Friendly.
Energy independent:
Biogas, Wind + Solar
energy... No connection
from MSEB.
Nature: Use what nature offers to the fullest. Light, Ventilation, Solar water heater
Local: Preference to Local materials + Local skills.
Water efficiency: Rainwater harvesting. Reuse, Recycling.
Waste management system: Bio degradable, dry.
Security: CCTV + Fence
Weather Station: State of art Technology + Farm Control centre
The challenge is to think not only in square meters but also to express the re- lationship between the Home with adjoining open spaces and the rural fabric. A successful design must factor in these conditions, as well as consider future needs, social, functional and spatial necessities to generate a distinct and more meaningful proposal.