Joannah Elizabeth Chacko

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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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(From left to right) Freehand one-point, two-point and isometric 3D assemblage.

Surface development of a subtracted hexagonal prism and pentagonal pyramid, used to make a 3d model as seen to the right.

Exploration and initial observations of the parts of a doorknob.

Final exploded view of the doorknob with labelled parts.

Gauging the size of certain objects and comparing the measurements to the actual dimensions.

Images on the left, showing the section of the building to be taken, and on the right is a detailed wall section showing the materials used.

Model of the wall section with all the different materials represented, using multiple varying mediums.

Image on the left manually pixelated to achieve the work on the right.

Map of an isolated area on the outskirts of Bangalore (top right), to depict the community's self sufficiency and how all the activities in the area are interconnected. The images on the bottom are part of the exploration done of the neighborhood and the top left shows a visual representation of the layout of the area.

Drawing of a tablet and smartphone, done using Autocad.