Shivam Shrivastav

CFP001

U21124

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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Sketching required us to make various kinds of sketches with various media to help us find a medium to express our ideas.

Freehand drawing taught us to not depend on tools and helped us develop the skill to draw near perfect drawings without tools.

Technical drawing I introduced us to drafting and drawing with rules and principles.

We further used what we were taught to draft surface developments and make their models.

How things work required us to draft an exploded view of any mechanical object to understand its working principle.

Gauging sizes intended us to develop the skill gauging measurements i.e. measuring without tools and only with judgement.

Here we were made to understand the different materials used in building construction through the medium of a wall section.

Colour theory instilled in us a sensitivity to colour by exposing us to various challenging assignments.

Deciphering organising principles helped us find logic and reason in designs and compositions even when not so apparant.

Mapping helped us breakdown and understand the complicated process of mapping an area by making us map an area that we were familiar with.