Ranjana Rangarajan

CFP001

U22141

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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The image shows the exploded view of an old hand drill. The ancillary drawings explain the working mechanism of the drill.

Travel Brochure of Varanasi from Gaay Ghat to Nandeshwar Ghat. The left side of the brochure provides general information about the locality and the right side focusses on the character of streets around hidden temples.

Surface rendition of two assemblages - The left one has been stippled with a micron and the right one has been shaded with a 2B graphite pencil.

Assemblage of solid forms drawn freehand

Wall section of the CEPT workshop. The labeling of building elements has been done according the sequence of construction and the nature of each element has been marked in brackets.

Plan of Sewa and Sadhana from Gandhi Ashram. The drawing shows common human activities in the space and immediate context around the built form.

Detail drawing of a chest found in the guest house of Gandhi ashram. The chest was to keep records of letters sent to the Ashram.

The image shows two sections and two jump sections. The levels have been marked on the right and the key plan on the top right corner shows where the sections have been cut.

Surface development of a subtracted cube.

Multiview drawings of a subtracted Matchbox composition drafted in AutoCAD.