Anushka Dave

CFP001

U21020

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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Rendering techniques cross-hatching and stippling are used on two freehand-drawn compositions. The predominant focus here is on the shape and visibility of the objects from a given viewpoint. A certain understanding of light and shadows is also brought into account.

Isometric forms and wireframes are used to build an assemblage. Subsequently, these forms are digitally painted with primary and neutral colors. The idea is to achieve a distinction between its three-dimensional surfaces.

Experimentation is done with a variety of media, including charcoal, ink, pen, and pencils. In order to understand the nature of these mediums and make the most out of it. Excitement is brought in the mundane elements of the surrounding by better observation of the same.

Here, a study of works done by Charles Correa is taken into account and the graphical composition exhibited is then derived. He often offered modern structural solutions while simultaneously accentuating the Indian nationhood.

Mind maps of my neighborhood are created, with a particular emphasis on eateries, street vendors, their overall profitability, and people's food patterns.

Technically-drafted surface developments are made for a pentagonal pyramid and its truncation when a cutting plane inclined to the base is traversed. Following that, these surface developments are utilized to fabricate models of the same.

The freehand lettering on the left is composed of the same typeface in regular, narrow, and broad styles. The right-hand composition illustrates a mood-board for the word "comfortable." Wherein, pictures of elements that synchronize the sense of comfort are employed in tints that are soothing to the eyes.

An image (on the left) is pixelated with poster colors, to obtain an understanding of blending hues with black, white or another hue to get the desired color. The work on the right shows an exploded view of a mechanical spring balance in order to better comprehend its assembly and functionality, subsequently its working mechanism.

The work on left depicts the draft of kitchen and wash area of my house, with hatching and labeling of building elements and materials used. Later, the same is used to derive a model depicted on the left.

The following is a compilation of plans, elevations and objects drawn freehand, estimating the relative scales and proportions of the same to establish a better understanding of human ergonomics.