Bhatt Isha Tarak

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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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Assemblages produced as a part of the Freehand Drawing exercise were used as base images in the Colour Theory exercise to understand how colour themes work.

First sheet shows the different orthographic projections of a matchbox model. Second sheet shows the surface development of a hinged hexagonal prism which was then scaled to 1.5x to make the model shown on right.

Nine objects of different shades and tones of blue have been arranged in a 3x3 grid and then the same colours were created and painted in a grid. The next image is a moodboard based on the word 'adventurous'.

A plan view of Hagia Sophia has been analysed in terms of the main design principles seen in its structure and the next image contains a series of pictures explaining the visual principles of design as well as photography.

Wall sections containing all different building elements have been have been traced and labelled as a process of learning Building materials.

As a part of the same exercise a wall section from the interiors of a house was studied and then transformed into a model at the scale of 1:20.

A mind map as well as a base map of a neighbourhood in Sargasan, Gandhinagar is represented above.

As a part of the same exercise the attribute of the different kinds of trees in the same neighbourhood were studied and then plotted on the base map.

Different views and drawings of appliances of the kitchen are drawn on an A4 grid sheet by taking the dimensions in two ways: gauging and measuring.

Structures and patterns of leaves and tree are studied and sketched with two mediums: charcoal and ink-kitta. The life of a chair is depicted in a painting considering a hypothetical situation of leaving it in the same environment for 10 years.