Alvin Sahayanathan

CFP001

U22013

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 market galis of Varanasi: How the street width affects its activities.

Figuring out the Torque Motor: It's components and their functions.

An assemblage in 2-point perspective, drawn freehand.

Photoshop: Dragons invading the anime couple.

Wall section of Nandini, in Gandhi Ashram.

Details of a door in Nandini, Gandhi Ashram.

Drafting a sliced pentagonal pyramid along with it's surface development.

Subtracting solids from a square pyramid.

Residential galis of Varanasi.

Studying the parts of the torque motor: It's functions, materials, and measures.