Zeel Tejashkumar Shah

CFP001

U21160

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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S1 - Sketching : The sketch of dustbins on the left, a chair on the right and a bedroom in the middle are done using pen as a medium. The sketches of a plant in the middle-left part and middle-right part are done using ink and charcoal respectively.

S1 - Sketching : The imaginative drawing on the right is a underwater scene in which one letter is falling on the other, destroying it, and the third letter is watching from behind, unable to help as it is bound by the chain of an anchor. The imaginative sketch of a chair in the top left corner depicts an armchair that has deteriorated overtime. The sketches of a shoe is done using ink and charcoal to understand the application of two mediums.

S2 - Freehand Drawing : The top left drawing consists of different subtracted forms like- linear, planer, cube/ cuboid, cylinder, cone, pyramid, prism, etc. drawn in a one point perspective. The other drawings are of subtracted pyramids, cubes and prisms as well as wireframes of the same. (All drawn freehand)

S2 - Freehand Drawing : The left drawing consists of a composition of different subtracted forms like- cube, cylinder, cone, pyramid, prism, etc. and wireframes of cube, prism and pyramid drawn isometrically. The drawings on the right are a composition of five of the same forms and/ or wireframe. (All drawn freehand)

S5 - Gauging Sizes : The drawings consists of plans, and front and side elevations of various objects and furniture items; all drawn according to a scale and with gauged dimensions (written outside the parentheses). The measured dimensions are mentioned in parentheses. A human is also drawn besides furniture items to better understand their sizes.

S5 - Gauging Sizes : The left drawing consists of plan, and two elevations (AA and BB) of my bathroom. The right drawing consists of plan (with labelling of parts) and elevation of a bedroom window. Both drawings are drawn according to a scale and with gauged dimensions (written outside the parentheses). The measured dimensions are mentioned in parentheses. A human is also drawn to better understand their sizes and dimensions.

S9 - Colour Theory : The right side shows a mood board created on the theme ‘Funky’; the description about it is written besides it. The top right corner depicts an image which is pixelated in 1 cm by 1 cm grid; the pixelation sheet was painted using poster colours as a medium. The bottom right corners consists of two digitally created two-point perspective compositions that follows tetradic and triad colour schemes respectively.

S3 - Technical Drawing : The top half consists of plan, front and left elevations (drafted using projection method) and surface development of a subtracted cylinder and a truncated pentagonal pyramid. The model created for the same using card paper is also shown. The bottom left corner consists of images of similar solids created using the same drafting method. The bottom-middle part consists of Autocad drafted drawing of plan, three sections and two views of a composition of three subtracted cuboids. The bottom right corner comprises of Autocad drafted two point perspective drawing of the above mentioned composition that is rotated at an angle; it is created using projection method.

S6 - Building Elements and Materials : The top left corner shows the section that was chosen for creating the sectional elevation drawing (with labelling of building elements and materials used). A model (on the right side) was then created using different papers and boards to represent various building materials.

S4 - How Things Work & S10 - Deciphering Ordering Principles : The left part consists of images of a date stamp and its part; besides it is a labelled isometric drawing of all the parts of the stamp; the manner in which everything fits together is indicated using axis lines. The properties and functions of each part is written right bellow its labelling. In the right part, the top part indicates the various arrangement and ordering principles applied to achieve the plan of Kimbal Art Museum. The bottom part consists of images and the rules of composition and ordering they follow.