Heli Ketan Shah

CFP004

UBD23076

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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The initial process of designing a game based on Varanasi.

The final game and its components.

Site introduction and the ground floor plan with two sections of the site at 1:50 scale.

The 1:2 prototype model of furniture and its technical drawing in 1:5 scale.

The initial to final imaginative drawing based on the narrative.

Case study, ideation and module testing for an inclined tower.

Different joineries (lashing, intersecting, dowel, zip tie), final model of inclined tower using candy sticks and its testing.

Initial iteration of assemblage, exploration of joineries and final model on sketch up, wood to wood joinery and final model.

Data collection on site, initial iteration, representation of data through infographic and mapping.

Few pages of the booklet on boatmaking in Varanasi.