Vasudha Gupta

CFP004

UAR20153

The first semester focused on developing drawing and representation skills. Continuing in a similar vein, during the second semester, the CFP Studio component focuses on building analytical abilities. Exercises like mapping and data representation engage with on-ground reality, requiring that the students develop their ability to observe, collect data and analyse it, as well as communicate and represent it meaningfully; building elements and materials allows for initial familiarization with these, theoretically as well as through observation of built spaces around; while making and testing structures uses hands-on experience to enable conceptual understanding. Technical drawing II builds on the skills imbibed initially and develops them towards further complexity. All the exercises find their culmination in tackling a design problem, which brings together the skills and abilities while introducing the students for the first time to the design process. These skills will be put to use during L2 studios, and will be discussed in their relevance to the professional practice that designers, architects and urban planners engage in.

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From form to 'my reverie'. Sketching process in pencil starting with an isometric composition of solids to carving them, adding activities and context to create life inside ruins in a forest.

Drafting the plan (technical drawing) of my house (apartment flat) focusing on its accuracy and precision. Hand rendering the same for presentation drawing.

Final set of technical drawings (sections and elevation) after softlines and dummy drawings. Understanding building elements, materials and structures.

Tackling A Design Problem. Design Brief, Site Plan, Site Section and 3D views of a shelter designed for a chef in Goa after understanding and making a model of the contours, site and climate analysis and various shelter placement sketches.

Tackling A Design Problem. Unit Plan, Sections and Elevations of the shelter, its 3D views, adjacency diagrams and initial conceptual sketches of the same.

Identifying the attributes of my neighborhood, drawing a base map (500m x 500m), and presenting the layers of information through a final map. Mapping the availability and accessibility of various amenities and easy distances.

Making and testing a frame cube structure made with reed sticks and thread to understand joineries, load transfer, reasons of failure and types of stresses. Providing rectifications for a stronger structure.

Sketching postures in charcoal, understanding its peculiar characteristics and sketching moving objects.

Drawing a wall section of my building after tracing and studying the given wall sections and understanding building elements and materials.

Digital Representation. Using SketchUp to make the model of Bal Mandir by Leo Pariera and a weekend home, using Rhino 3D to model a chair, and also learning ArchiCAD.

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