Milen Jai Fraanc

CFP001

U22118

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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Learning to differentiate surfaces and visualizing it through rendering. A sheet of subtractions done on pyramids. One point and two point perspective assemblage done freehand.

Hand drafted sheets of two subtracted solids with their plan, elevations and the respective surface development. Two sheets of one point perspective of a group of cuboids and its subtracted version.

Identifying the elements and materials used in a building.

Gauging the dimensions of a space and some of its basic furniture to create the plan of the same room.

The exploded view and the working of a handheld sewing machine.

Hand drafted sheet of the section of the Bookshop in Gandhi Ashram.

Hand drafted sheet of the Plan of the Bookshop of Gandhi Ashram.

Hand drafted sheet of elevation of the Bookshop of Gandhi Ashram

The sectional model of the Bookshop in Gandhi Ashram.

Field Studio done in Varanasi about the ways women utilize the space of ghats and streets.