Shreya Savarkar

CFP001

U22163

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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A wall section in Nandini Guest House, Gandhi Ashram showing layers of different materials and different elements.

Plan and sections of Mehrotra Silk Factory in Varanasi to visualize the space better and to show the main volumes and components of the space being used

Exploded view of a music box showing its assembly with axis and the texts explaining the working of each part.

Looking from the Inside in the FA Building through a wall section to understand the components which were not visible on the actual site.

Model of Nandini Guest House, Gandhi Ashram with transparent roof showing interior of the building along with site context