Samiksha Vaidyanathan

CFP001

U21114

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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Sketches in different Mediums - Charcoal, Ink and Kitta and Micron Pens.

The two most elaborate sketching exercises - Life of a Chair and Alphabets in Space.

Freehand drawing of a two-point perspective and an isometric assemblage.

Hand drafted views of a tilted matchbox composition along with digitally created sectional views.

Surface Development of a subtracted cylinder along with the model of a pentagonal pyramid.

A two-point perspective drafted digitally on AutoCAD and a hand-drafted one-point perspective along with a 1:20 sectional model of my building.

Exploded View of Correction tape after carefully studying its parts and functioning.

Gauged and actual dimensions of an idli maker and a window along with a collage created on photoshop and a few pages from a magazine created on InDesign.

Pixilation of a photograph and a digitally coloured two-point perspective drawn freehand.

An analysis of the sensory experience of my neighbourhood after analysing the footfall, traffic and popular shops in my area.