Aditya Shankarasubramanian

CFP001

U21009

The Monsoon semester focuses on equipping students with various techniques to visualise, draw and represent. The students also start to engage with existing buildings to identify various building elements, basic construction materials and methods. They practise and work intensively to perfect their freehand drawing and perspective drawing, to visualize and draw complex compositions. They also learn to make technical drawings using orthographic projections, surface development and the exploded view of a complex object. A series of exercises in sketching will enable the students to sketch freely in order to observe, document, imagine and improvise.The exercise on gauging sizes will develop the habit of estimating sizes using one’s body and through it the students will begin to engage with the concept of anthropometrics. Through the exercise on building elements and materials the students will start to engage with existing buildings to decipher their building elements and materials and understand the sequence of construction. In the last exercise the students will go through the process of documenting an existing building and making a set of architectural drawings.

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Mapping and Data Representation: Mapping the activities in our neighbourhood during different festivals (my topic) and representing it creatively yet with precision.

Building Elements and Materials: Perceiving the section of the house along with it's foundation and getting to know different elements. Model of the same has been made.

Freehand Drawing: Lines form Shapes which creates 3D forms. Subtractions of solids composed and arranged in a assemblage drawn Freehand.

Gauging Sizes: Measuring and gauges closed and open spaces. Drawing them at a different scale and understanding the process of construction drawings.

How Things Work: Learning the joinery and fixing of daily objects. Trying to understand the working of the mechanism which exists.

Technical Drawing: Learning about technicalities in the design field. Starting from different views and perspectives of objects and opened up solids; drafted by hand. Models of the same were made. (Row 2, Column 2. Drawing made on AutoCAD.)

Digital Representation :Creating, editing and reshaping on different software. [From Left to Right. AutoCAD Drawings, Poster (Adobe Illustrator), Magazine page (Adobe InDesign).]

Deciphering principles of Organization and Composition: Familiarizing with the rules with which a building or design is organized and composed. Finding these rules out there in the real world.

Sketching: Loosening our hands and fingers on paper to let our ideas flow. Trying out different mediums and materials.

Colour Theory: Mixing different colors to get a certain shade or tint. Also, understanding color palettes of different designers and creating a mood board.