Tracing IIM

History Assignment, Semester 6, Batch 2016, WCFA  : To explore an architects work by choosing a particular lens.  Drawing by student : Rahul Kustagi.

IIMB Tracing
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Rahul uses the method of the Nolli plan (a brilliant interpretive drawing of Rome by Giambattista Nolli in 1748 , revealing the porosity of public space in both built and unbuilt forms ) to explore the spatial porosity of IIM Ahmedabad . The intensity of yellow is proportionate to the publicness. The library even though a built space, becomes the crux of the publicness in IIM

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Nolli Map, 1748. The streets and public interior of all the buildings are shown in white and private areas in black , showing the permeability of the city. Click the image to enlarge

Wall Sections

On the similar line of thought Ruskin saying that “If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world”, i believe if one can draw a careful wall section, you can take care of the whole building.
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Study of Spray of Dead Oak Leaves (detail; 1879), John Ruskin. © Collection of the Guild of St George/Museums Sheffield
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Wall Section, Kamala House, 1959 , BV Doshi
This section reveals
1. the attitude of the built form towards the ground by slightly extending the plinth outside casting a shadow
2. folded RCC chajja-cum-parapet as an instrument to allow diffused light
3. rat trap bond as insulator
4. reveal plastered and exposed surfaces
5. tectonics and materiality of the facade
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detailed wall section
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This drawing (1: 20 scale part sections) below is a drawing I made for my UG thesis (Public Library) at USD Mysore in 2008. It captures all the edge conditions of the building. It was my professional training at Apurva Amin Architects in Ahmedabad trained me to look at a building this close. And it was Bijoy Ramachandran, my thesis guide then, insisted to look carefully at the tectonic quality of the building.
Since then, for me this drawing ( and scale of noticing) has been a very important method and tool to read and build architecture .
Notes : The wall section of Kamala House is a scan from a booklet published on this house from Sangath.

Intersection of Solids

Drawing Exercise, Semester 2, WCFA :

Step 01 : Develop three line variations from Sol Lewitt’s Incomplete Cube Series into solid objects (A,B,C)

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Step 02: Intersect the three solids (A,B,C) in a manner, all the conditions of overlap (A+B,B+C,A+C,A+B+C) are achieved in a single combined composition.

Step 03 : Highlight the intersections

Drawings by student : Varun Bapu , Batch 2016. (The photoshop edits and colour are by the author. I tried to emphasis the intersection is 3 ways highlighting – combined form, intersections, exploded components)

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