First year portfolio

LEARNING PORTFOLIO

Yashita Ugavekar First year School of Environment & Architecture 2019-2020 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Introduction

200 words question from the History, Humanities & Theory Module Today, we live in a society where we are always judged by people based on our looks, dressing style, accent, language, etc. Why have we become so judgemental? At the same time, it is so subjective. Like, who decides what is right and what is wrong.

And why it is so subjective. What is the definition of right and wrong? How is it different from person to person? Why at times we are unable to place things into right and wrong?

Also, at times, why can’t there be a single answer to a

question, whether right or wrong. And most importantly, why the right thing is not the right one for some other people?

Everything in this world depends upon an individual’s way of looking at it. As the wrong thing appears to be or is the right one for a person who has done it. The best example is the story of the father and the I.G. from the film DRISHYAM. Why couldn’t we say that what the father did for his child was right or what the I.G. did for her son was right?

Why does everything depends on our

perspective? And why is it not the same for others in the world?

Contents

Sound & reflections

Drafting

5 highLIGHTS of festival

Foot design

Technology

Body support

Concrete to ferrocement

Case studies

Tunnel box

Rediscovering Australia

Designing a table

Sounds & reflections The orientation module involved making a space that explored sound and light. Light is brought in by adding colorful layers of transparent sheets and sound is produced due to its octogonal form.

Also donkey chairs were made.

Picture of the structure

Drafting In this module we took measurements of tables and desks on which we were working in college and drafted them on an A1 sheet. We learnt how to use T-scale and T-square.

After this we drafted the school building.

Table

Plan of the school

Section of the school

5 highLIGHTS of festivals Photoshop, Autocad & Indesign softwares were used to explain one’s own house in forming 5 moments of home from interesting spaces. The main aim of this module was to explore these softwares.

Plan of my house

Activities done in the house

Foot design Measurements of a foot are taken. This was then translated into a model in which the points that were felt by hand and those which connect the other bones are shown.

Foot model- front

Foot model- side

Technology An object - pocket perfume was studied in detailed, its mechanism and functions. This was then translated in a model that shows the push-pull mechanism of pocket perfume is similar to the elastic band that holds the entire structure.

Working of the structure

Pocket perfume mechanism Physical model of the structure

Body support

Picture of fire moss

Conceptual model

The module began with collecting fungii, algae, moss from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai.

Understanding the growth pattern of the fire moss, I made a model using ear buds, which tells us about the growth of the bunch of this moss. From this pattern a back support was to be made which is ergonomical.

Ergonomic details

Model- side

Model- side at an angle

Concrete to Ferrocement A concrete block the concrete took the was made to form of the mould. understand the material. And then a mould having slopes and punctures was made and the concrete mixture was poured in the mould.

After demoulding,

Concrete block

Concrete model

This process was taken further by scaling up the structure and using ferro-cement. The final ferrocement structure is shown.

Ferro-cement structure

Case Studies 4*4 House by Tadao Ando and Blooming bamboo house by H&P Architects are studied and their framework is shown in these models.

4*4 House model

Blooming bamboo house - roof detail 1

Blooming bamboo house 2

Blooming bamboo house 1

Blooming bamboo house- roof detail 2

Tunnel Box Sketches were made by observing the activities performed by the people in Eksar village, near the school. The sketches were then tranformed in making a tunnel box.

Tunnel box with Eksar sketches in the background

Rediscovering Australia History was explored from 10,000 BC to present. So collecting information of the development of various continents and putting them on the pin up board in chronological order.

Australia was the last continent to be discovered, in 1606.

Australia pin up board

Table design showing their qualities

Designing a table

Translation: Walking down the streets as usual, ‘I met a stranger.

It felt like I was shown a mirror by someone.

We were both amazed to see each other in front of our ownselves.

We were eager to learn more about each other.

So we sat on a bench nearby and began chatting.

Our temperament and habits were opposite.

Even the choice of hobbies was not the same.

One thing for sure that from this meeting, we can say that people or things that look alike are not always the same.....

And we said goodbye to each other on the feeling of meeting again.

The Double, a fictional character which is similar to you. Imagine you meeting your double...

And therefore, my thinking began from collecting doubles of my clasmates and myself. I thought how they would react and considering this a table was design. This table has contracted and expandaded according to people and their behaviours.

A short poem is written in Marathi that writes about one meeting his/ her double.

Projects

Done along with

Sound & reflections

Prishita, Anupreksha, Sayli, Shruti, Aakansha, Shriya and Swamini.

Anupreksha, Tanuja, Eesha, Pranjal, Ansh, Rachit, Sayli, Khushi,Shriya, Bhavi,Rajvi, Vanshita and Aboli.

Concrete to ferrocement

Tunnel box Rediscovering Australia

Aakansha

Ansh, Aditi, Avinash, Jainam and Prajwal.