Shradha Sharma

CFP001

U21230

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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Drawings of a matchbox composition drafted using autocad. These drawings display different views of the composition along with a two point perspective representation of a subtracted composition of the matchbox.

This slide displays surface development of a truncated pentagonal pyramid and a cylinder with two subtractions. These surface developments are useful for making models from the drawings.

This slide shows the exploded view of a rim lock with labels and working principles of different parts of the lock. Some process sheets are also displayed to give a better understanding of the exercise.

The drawing of a street section is displayed in this slide. The body is used as a measuring device to gauge the dimensions of this section.

A bathroom plan along with the drawings of a bathroom appliance and a bathroom fixture has been shown in this slide. As the name of the exercise suggests, the dimensions of the objects were gauged and then drawn.

The slide displays the drawing of a wall section. Rendering has been used to identify the different building materials used in the wall section. This drawing serves as the background on which the model is pasted. The wall section is labelled to identify the building elements of the wall section.

From the exercise color theory, the first part of the slide displays my work on pixelating a photograph. While the second half displays the work in which one of the color schemes is used to colour the assemblage which is drawn freehand and colored digitally.

This slide shows my work from the exercise deciphering rules of organization. In the first half of the slide I have displayed my work on the plan assigned to us, while in the second half photographs are used to explain the different rules of composition that were explained in the exercise.

A map of my neighborhood that explains in detail the differences I experienced in terms of smell, human density and building typology.

Sketches of different objects and elements from of my surroundings done using pencils, pens and ink. Different mediums are used to highlight the distinctive features of the drawings.