Akshith Santosh

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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 slide involves the exploded view of a Cycle rickshaw model explaining the functions of each part.

The three assemblages which were drawn freehand are coloured according to a specific colour scheme.

The maps above were made exploring my neighborhood and its landmarks. The final map shows a 3D view of the area highlighting the main landmarks.

The collage aboves involves some of the famous works of Hassan Fathy and the composition on the right was made highlighting the elements used by him in his works also adding a colour scheme at the bottom of the composition.

The technical drawings consisted of views and surface developments of certain solids and the slides shows three such drawings of solids with truncations and subtractions.

The models shown in the slide above were made from the surface development of the solids drawn in the previous slide.

The wall sections drawn in the slide above were made to understand the building elements which can be derived from a section of a wall and its elevation.

The freehand exercise was done during the early days of the first semester helping one to draw serious drawings along with rendering in freehand which was quite useful in the later half of the semester.

The exercise focused on recognizing the ordering principles at a given plan, how to stage them and also to observe them in one's surroundings.

The slide includes some of the sketches made in the first semester.