Students Awards & Achievements

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 … !!

Rashi Agrawal wins IIA Medal for “Best Outgoing Student – 2021” at 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 … !! 

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

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.

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:

First Prize Winner Team

Posters

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“

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

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.

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.

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“

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS

ENDOWMENT PRIZES

• Amisha Sethi won gold medal for academic performance from RTMNU.
• Third year students Aamena Syed, Anshula Khedulkar, Bhagyashree Girgaonkar and Harshleen Gulati won Melghat Tiger Tech Competition.
• Third year students Shravya Durge, Neha Bhalerao and Sumedha Karandikar won Competition held at IIT Kanpur for designing earthquake resistant structures.
• Third Semester student Disha Patil won the title of ‘Nagpur Shravan Queen’ in the contest organized by Maharashtra Times.
• Gauri Damle, Radhika Digambar and Purvi Sharma won First, Second and Third prizes respectively in the essay Competition organized by MECL on the topic ‘Corruption Free India’.
• Seventh Semester students Natasha Kapai and Indrayani were shortlisted for S A Deshpande Trophy, which is an intercollegiate design competition for Seventh Semester students of architecture of Vidarbha region. Natasha Kapai won the Second consolation prize.
• SMMCA won third place in the inter-college basketball tournament conducted by RTM Nagpur University from 5th oct 2018 to 9th October 2018.
• Rucha Aurangabadkar got into semi-finals of inter-college women’s basketball champions and Shubhadini Kulkarni got into the pre-quarter finals.
• Bhagyashri Girgaokar was a part of RTM Nagpur University Chess team which won the 1st place in West Zone Chess Competition and represented at all India level.

• On the occasion of the International Conference ‘Research For Resurgence’ a Powerpoint, poster, essay writing competition was held. SMMCA students bagged the first prize in all categories –
• 1st prize winners for PPT –
  • Mayuri Deodhar
  • Sumedha Karandikar
  • Anshula Khedulkar
  • Bhagyashri Girgaonkar
• 2nd prize winners –
  • Indrayani Shravankar
  • Alishka Asai
  • Rutuja Gavande
• Essay 1st prize – Sejal Kose
• Poster 1st prize – Akanksha Chourasia

• Shreya Lunawat and Manasi Sharma won and bagged first and second positions in NICEE Workshop on Earth Quake resistant structures at IIT Kanpur held at June 2016.
• Shraddha Hirwade 3rd Sem. Student was felicitated and honored with “LASYA MOHINI AWARD” on 9th Sept. 2016 for her excellence in the field of classical dance, Bharat Natyam. She received the award at the hands of respected actress of Kerala Smt. Urmila Unni. She performed solo Bharat Natyam dance recital of 20 minutes at this prestigious National Dance Festival “Mohana Keralam – 2016”. The festival was held at Chamgampuzah Park, Cochin.
• Third Year students Sakina Josh, Anjali Gurbani and Alaifya Jameel won first prize in Heritage Competition on Redesign of Kasturchand Park, at Nagpur.
• Sakshi Joshi (alumnus) scored 75th ALL INDIA RANK in GATE examination.
• Anushree Kaloti was selected to represent RTM Nagpur University in the Inter-University Basket Ball Tournament which was held at Gwalior and RTMN University team got qualified for All India level Tournaments.
• SMMCA alumni students Akansha Jaiswal and Swati Chute won the first prize in Open Architectural Competition of Green Ashcon 2017. They designed a sustainable housing model for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and affordable housing with maximum use of fly ash as major building material.

• Pragya Hotwani and Aksa Kondoor bagged a Special Mention and were amongst top five out of 47 entries in TRANSPARENCE’15 which was a national level competition for Housing held at Mumbai.
• Anuja Pingale and Shweta Pasarkar won first and second prize respectively in city level poster making competition on ‘Desh Raksha Param Punnyam’ organized by Sanghamitra Sewa Pratishthan, Ahilya Mandir, Nagpur.
• COA-NIASA-INTACH organised student’s national level competition on Architectural Documentation. SMMCA students Mahima Maheshwari, Pawani Vaidya, Ayushi Dubey and Aishwarya Kundley won award of excellence from central region for documentation of Adasa Temple Complex.
• Documentation work carried out under Documentation Cell of SMMCA was sent to Neemrana group and was appreciated and three students were selected at all India level for 15 days workshop at Neemrana Hotel on conservation.
• Best Student of the College 2015-16 for Ms. Shilpi Kedia

• FIRST PRIZE IN THE PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL LEVEL COMPETITION FOR SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA.
  SMMCA won the first position in this national level competition which was for sessional works of architecture colleges. It was conducted by Aditya College of Architecture, Mumbai. Sessional works in the form of sheets and models are an important aspect of architecture education as the major learning happens through this work produced by the students from first to fifth year.
  The prize distribution ceremony was held on April 3, 2014 at Aditya Education Campus, Mumbai. Dr. Subhash Mahajan, Director of Technical Education, Maharashtra was the chief guest. Ms. Mandira Neware and Ms. Kalyani Kawle, student representatives from SMMCA, received the prize at the ceremony. The prize consists of Rs. 30,000 and a certificate.
• Yasmeen Shaikh was second runner-up of Nagpur Times Fresh Face by Clean and Clear 2014.
• SMMCA Students won first prize in cultural and also bagged three on-the-spots in Zonal NASA (National Association of Schools of Architecture) Convention, held at Solapur, Maharashtra.
• Neha Sharma, student of 3rd year won the Best Female Delegate Award at the workshop on Aptitude Development conducted by Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur. The workshop was conducted from June 23 rd June to 30th June 2014.
• Ms. Sayali Vazalwar was declared the Best Student of the Year.