Diya Jain

CFP001

U21042

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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The image on the left is a cognitive map of my neighborhood and attempts to capture the essence of the region from my perspective as a child growing up in this area. The image on the right is a base map displaying the arrangement and organization of this area .

The map displays the various facets of my neighborhood of Raja Park and Tilak Nagar in Jaipur; capturing the activities and people, nature of built environment and its organization, and prominent buildings of the area.

The image on the left displays a wall section showcasing various built elements and the materials being used and the model depicting this information can be seen alongside.

Drafted surface development of solids with subtractions in their form along with models.

These sketches are explorations in mediums such as ink and kitta, charcoal etc. to capture elements in our surroundings. These are time-bound works ranging from a 2 minute sketch (image on bottom right corner capturing form of a leaf) to an hour long (image on the left of a plant).

The sketch has been made with ink and kitta and is inspired by the duality of ‘everything and nothing’. The characters chosen are ‘A & Z’ for everything and ‘0’ for nothing, placed in the midst of ruins showcasing the duality of the built and the natural environment. The characters inscribed on 0 are the Devanagari script numbers ‘42’ (ascii value of ‘*’- used to denote ‘all’ in programming) and ‘33’ (ascii value for ‘!’ – denoting not/nothing in programming). The work aims to convey how humans navigate through this duality searching for treasures.

The displayed work is done free hand, without the use of tools such as rulers and erasers. The work showcases rendering techniques, solids with subtractions done in their form and a composition of various subtracted solids.

The images showcase the elevation and sectional view of a kitchen constructed by gauging measurements.

The images on the left consist of experimentation in various color schemes such as triadic, analogous and primary and neutral. The image on the right is a collage consisting of architect Sameep Padora's work in an effort to understand the use of colors in his work.

The sheet displays the exploded view visualization of a pump spray gun.