Sqratch · Open Briefs
Every Brief.
Every Edition.
6 competitions across 3 years. Architecture as argument, not application.
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Digital Detox Township · 2026
Inhabit V1
Digital Detox Township
What does a building look like when it's designed for someone whose phone is locked in a drawer? Design a self-sufficient, community-driven housing complex that lets people unplug, reconnect, and renew their well-being.
The Jury
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Mythili Kowshik Shetty
Principal Architect
25+ Years Experience
Debayan Chatterjee
Urban Planner
Urban Design Expert
Sreyash Dasgupta
Architect
Architect
Past Competitions
5 closed editions — every brief, every result.
Alchemy
Use artificial intelligence as a design tool to generate extraordinary architectural renders. Explore the boundary between human creativity and machine generation.
Sqratch Challenge 3 — Inhabit
The competition that seeded Inhabit V1. Participants were asked to reimagine inhabitation at the edge of urban and rural — the brief that started it all.
Sqratch Photography Challenge 1
Capture minimalism in the built environment. Find the geometry, the silence, the reduction. A photography competition for architects with a camera.
Sqratch Challenge 2 — Vacanza
Design a 50sqm holiday cottage for a resort on a 250m diameter island. Single-storey, 2 occupants. An exercise in restraint, escape, and tropical minimalism.
Sqratch Challenge 1
Design a micro house on a 6×6m plot for two. The first competition ever run by Micro Nation — the platform that became Sqratch. Compact living, Indian context, radical ingenuity.