INTERPRETATION OF INDIAN ARCHITECT ACT ( 2 CLAUSES)
CLAUSE 23. PREPARATION AND MAINTENANCE OF REGISTER
The Central Government is required to have a register of architects in India. The Council of Architecture maintains the register in accordance with the Act. The Register must have the following details of the architect-
1. the full with date of birth, nationality and residential address of the architect;
2. qualification for registration, the date on which the qualification was obtained and the authority which conferred it;
3. the date of first admission to the register;
4. professional address
5. further details as per the rules
CLAUSE 24. FIRST PREPARATION OF REGISTER
For preparing the register of architects for the first time, the Central Government requires to appoint 3 persons, who have the knowledge or experience of architecture, to constitute the Registration Tribunal. This shall be notified in the Gazette of India. The Registrar appointed under clause 12 shall act as the Secretary of the Registration Tribunal. The application for register could be made to the Registration Tribunal along with a fee as per the rules. The date on or before which the registration to be made was 27th of April '74(chosen by the Central Government).
The Registration Tribunal is to check all the applications if the qualifications were valid for registration under clause 25, and then direct it for entry into the register. The first register prepared was to be published, and if any person who was aggrieved by the decision of the Tribunal could make an appeal against the decision to the authority appointed by the Central Government for this purpose, within 30 days of the publication of the register.
The authority (appointed under clause 4) appointed checks relevant records and gives the person with the objection an opportunity to be heard, and with regard sets order. The registrar is to prepare any amends to the register where necessary depending on the decision of the authority (appointed under clause 4).
Every Architect registered in the register is a given a certificate to acknowledge the registration. The Council of Architecture is given the custody to keep the register, and the fees towards registration.
So basically these two clauses were made to introduce the Register for Architects under the Council of Architecture. It describes the set of instruction that the Government needs to follow to make the first register and the maintenance of the register.
UNDERSTANDING OF TENDERS-
The Tender Notice gives the minimum information about a
project—mentioning the project itself, the estimated cost and the earnest
money. The Tender Document has two parts- a. Forms, Eligibility, Proforma of
schedules and special conditions and b. schedule of quantity.
The Document first explains the eligibility of Contractors for the
particular project. If the Project is an Institutional building, then the
contractor willing to make a bid, must have experience in this type of project.
They should have at least 1, 2 or 3 completed projects of Instituitional Building
depending on the scale and estimated cost of the project (3 projects completed
if it is a smaller budget than the proposed project, 2 projects completed if
the budget is around the same as the proposed project, and 1 project completed
with a higher budget than the proposed project). It is very important for the
proposing party to ensure that the bidders all have valid registration with the
concerned authority. Also the contractor should not have incurred any loss more
than a period- one years, two years.
The Tenderer is asked to check the site conditions, and to do a site analysis in terms of nature of soil, access to site, requirements on site,etc. before submitting the tender.
The successful tender’s agreement is drawn based on if the contractor fulfills
all the requirements. Any tender that does not fulfill the requirements shall be rejected. The contract with the successful tenderer can be cancelled if the contractor or any of his employees is found to not have attained the permission from the Government in the engagement of contractor's service.
The contract document and the contract agreement consists of all the required documents.
The final bid document consisting of plans, specifications of the
schedule of quantities of items, set of terms and conditions and other
necessary documents can be viewed on the website of the organization, or other
specified websites. The rates the tenderer quotes depending on terms and conditions, is also part of the agreement. This can be done
only after uploading the details of mandatory documents- Demand Draft, pay
Order, Banker’s cheque, etc-towards cost of the bid document. Also an e-tender processing fee is to be paid
to submit tender documents online.
UNDERSTANDING COMPETITIONS
FUTURARC PRIZE 2016 (ASIA)
Small Things, Big Impact | Eco-puncture for more liveable, resilient cities-
Brief
The idea was to design a small space (eco-puncture) as a module for the cities, which can have a great impact on the life of the city. The cities in asia are growing, and most parts without proper planning which has adverse affects on the life of the city. So the entry needs to propose a small design solution that can have a systematic change in the lifestyle of the people. The entries should have a design solution, and show how a network of this can be created, and how that network can improve the life in the city.
Eligibility
There were two categories- Professional and Architecture Student. Registration could be done individually or as a group of maximum 5 members in both the categories.
None of the competition organizers, employees/or family members members of the employees are eligible for the competition. The participant were not allowed to reveal their names in their submission before the announcement of the prize. The participant would be disqualified if the rules weren't followed.
Registration-
All entries were to be done online through their website. No fee for registration. Participants would have to login with their user ID to upload their submission online.
Evaluation-
The Jury is looking for solutions that are technically plausible and rooted in local conditions. Entrants must make a demonstrable case in some or all of the following:
1. Liveability 2. Resilience 3. Replicability
The winning entry in the professional category was of a small well designed community kitchen for the slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The design solution proposed to intimidate the air pollution in the area, as well improve the health condition of the people in the area, by providing a clean easy to maintain kitchen, where the people can make clean food, and have access to clean drinking water.
The entry was backed up with deep research work done on the place, the deteriorating city. It followed the brief. Since the designer targeted the people of the low-income background and proposed a solution for the improvement of the living conditions, it was selected as one of the winning entries, because in asia the growing slum areas, with the terrible living condition is a huge problem faced by the city. If small design solution can make an impact on such areas, it would make a great impact on the city.
ARCHITECTURE IN 2040
Up on the
hills of Qurum, Oman, sits a beautiful little two-storeyed villa, which has
been converted into an architecture office. My Firm has three founding
partners-Suprima Joshi, from Nepal, Mohammed Bin Syed, from Oman, and me, from
India. Our firm focuses on reinventing the vernacular style, or redefining
spaces, or the typology of space. We also explore into mud construction, which
is the traditional style of construction.
We do both government projects and
projects for private organizations. Our
regular clients are the education institutions in the capital region, the
Indian Schools and the International School. We also do urban design projects
for the government. One of the projects, an Urban Design Project, was Phase 3
of the Express Highway, and the city of Sohar in the Batinah Region. We also do the occasional residential projects.
The office
is an old villa which has been restored into a work space. The main work space
has been converted into a double height space, and the interiors have been done
in white. We have a small garage that has been converted into a workshop where
we do hands in projects of furniture for our residential project. It’s
important to us to keep our work fun, and not feel like a burden. Our system of
office timings is that every one of us needs to at least clock in 8 hours of
work. So the range can be 8 a.m to 4 p.m, 9 a.m to 5 p.m, or even 1 p.m to 10
p.m. The number of people working in our office varies from 5 to 15, depending
on the scale of the project. The three partners are permanent; we also have two
senior architects. We also hire interns, local and other nationalities. We like to keep the number small, so that the work still feels in control, and there is more personal interaction while working on the projects.
It took us quite some time to be an established firm in the capital city, we started with baby steps, by taking small scale projects, like residences, restaurants, and institutions, so that we could get into to the detail of the space. The locals still appreciate the intrinsic ornamentation of buildings especially the jalis. So we try to incorporate ornamentation in the contemporary style.
It was the vision of the previous ruler Sultan Qaboos to let the development of the city happen keeping close to nature. So other than designing building giving great importance to the context, we also do extensive landscaping of our sites. Since the whole area is a desert, to make the spaces more habitable we create green public spaces with trees that easily grow in this region. We also use passive cooling methods in our projects, so that we can reduce the load on the air-conditioning units.
We also do projects for the Ministry of the Tourism. We design spaces to give tourists an overall experience of the country, and embrace nature during their stay. We do hotels, and public spaces at the touristy spots, without redefining the natural terrain, instead adding more character to the natural site.
We like maintaining a good environment in the office, so we like keeping things transparent with all our co-workers in terms of administration and projects. We have a lounge area in our office where we all hang out, do fun boards, relax in the office. We have a mezzazine floor designed as a mini-bedroom, just in case of an all nighter.
