Ratadia Bhavya Hasmukh

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The Purpose of Architecture arises out of the multiple scenarios that any design intervention seeks to address, that which the architect considers to propose and that which satisfies the objectives intended. The manifestation of the parts of our built environments thus come into being. A critical understanding of these processes and powers that lead to eventual architectural decisions is expected of the architect. The studio was about generating such ideas and being able to address such issues by reacting to our immediate surrounding built environment with the help of series of weekly exercises. For an architect it is very essential that he/she is able to communicate ideas through visuals. The ability to explain concepts and ideas is essential to convey a complete picture of the design intent. Learning Outcomes: Enhancement of the skill to visualize and represent in various types of drawing format. Time management and utilizing it efficiently. Workshop conducted by Ajit Rao helped to express reasoning of ideas clearly and effectively. Critical examination of the role that visual representation holds in architecture. Ability to study a larger area and be able to generate a critical argument based on the existing condition of built environment present there.


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Exercise for Interior Spaces. To observe the space in which you live in and depict it through one's own understanding.

Exercise for Interior Spaces. To observe the surrounding and depict it through one's own understanding.

Reading a given literature and converting it to Visual Graphics.

Studying miniature painitng and depicting the life at the monumental building, ADALAJ NI VAV

Documenting the path taken from home to CEPT through comic style drawing

Ajit Rao's Workshop

Previous batch students had documented the university area through 3d modelling, ‘Knowledge Precinct’, and our brief was to take a step ahead and select the area of our interest and study it, develop a pyschogeography and to represent it through the process of visualisation and communication.Initial Idea was to record the important buildings including institutions, colleges, research centres and etc. Various trials were attempted to represent the same idea.

Larger study of the area was done to understand the urban settlement surrounding the gulbai tekra. The general observations was such that the particular small piece of land is surrounded by lot of orderly placed residential blocks, commercial blocks, government buildings and more.

Process of making drawiong: Taking the sketchup model as a base drawing the final drawing was made in parts with the help of various site visits and referring to the thesis and other drawings. The entire drawing was divided into several parts and each highlighted part was initially made in A1 and then reduce to A3 which would fit in the final compostion of hollywood basti of gulbai tekra. Finally using mix-media (photoshop, illustrator and digital sketing on wacom pad) the remaing part of shee

Final Drawing. It is a mixture of hand and photoshop skills.