Karthik Devarajan

CFP004

UAR23096

The CEPT Foundation Programme studio is an introduction for students fresh out of school to the rigor and work habits required by an undergraduate degree at CEPT University. The studio is conceptualized as a series of sequentially planned exercises, through which students develop skills and abilities, which are then deployed to address increasingly complex problems falling in four broad categories: visualize and draw, make and learn, anayse and interpret and conceptualise and represent. The exercises are designed to provide foundational skills for students across disciplines at CEPT, between which they maintain a balance. They also reflect an understanding that at the foundation level, these skills overlap to a large extent, and a varied array is of benefit to all students. The studio is taught through intensive 1–2 week long modules, focusing on a particular skill or ability, and a process that emphasizes ongoing feedback in addition to expert faculty lectures.


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Through a week-long venture through the ghats and the streets of Varanasi, a study was conducted on the numerous musical instruments found.

Mapping out the materials used in the major buildings in an area in Raikhad, Ahmedabad.

Learning how to compose elements of different materials through creating a cube out of them.

Understanding structures by making a model of cantilever plate tower and testing its strength.

Documenting a site by measuring the different elements present and drawing them to scale. Plan and sections of Karuna guest house, Sabarmati ashram.

Technical drawings of furniture, the wall section, and the door details of the guest house.

Site sections of Karuna guest house.

Creating a visual of a setting through a descriptive narrative.

Designing a board game by understanding pre-existing board games and using Varanasi as the context to the game.

After ideating on the game, creating prototypes and countless testing, the graphics were finalised and the final model of the board game was produced.