Arpita Singla

CFP001

U22038

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,


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This shows the exploded view of a ceiling fan along with the name of every part, working principle and mechanism

This image shows an assemblage from one point perspective which was the part of free hand drawing.

All the building elements were identified in the given section.

As the part of study from the Varanasi field trip, the plans and sections of two merged temples were made along with the narrative.

Model of Sadhana and Sewa, a guest house at Sabarmati Aashram in the scale 1:50

The chronology of time period of the temples under study from the Varanasi field studio is shown here.

Freehand and gauged plan, section and elevation of a furniture piece is drawn.

Surface development of cylinder with two subtractions along with the model of the same which was a part of Technical Drawing 1

The plans and elevations of Sewa and Sadhana, a guest house in Gandhi Aashram in 1:50 scale along with the site plan and isometric of the site in 1:100 scale is shown here.