Kavneer Kaur

CFP001

U22097

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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First exercise of the semester included freehand drawing which equipped us to express our compositions without using any tools.

Technical drawings allowed us to use tools. Surface development formed the basis of model making.

This is an isometric exploded view of a strapping tensioner - How things work.

Information about building materials showcased using wall sections.

Gauged freehand plan and section.

Plan, elevation and section of Book Shop at Gandhi Ashram.

Front view of model.

Top view of model.

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