This elective course not only allowed me to explore different techniques to work around drawings, designing with different mediums and how it significantly affects your process, but also a different interpretation of architecture. We have somehow developed this idea/thinking that architecture or your design MUST solve a problem; which kind of drives us away from exploring the process of form-finding and its context.
We also tried to describe 'what is a folly'?' in both; traditional ways (whimsical, land marker, or decoration) and what we thought of it (playful, mysterious, absurd, ornament, aesthetic, etc). Eventually, we came to a common base that a folly disrupts the context of the surrounding system.
Then we started with a few exercises to experiment with different possibilities and techniques of drawing in and out of our comfort zone.
The first exercise was a simple time-based 'Color Me' exercise to know what is our go-to approach/comfort zone.
The second exercise aimed to experiment with limitations and understand the significance of aesthetics and framing a view. Part 1 of this was 'Building Blocks' where we started to design with limited 3d models (like cubes, spheres, etc) keeping the prompts in mind. My prompt was 'ELASTIC'. Part 2 was based on framing a good view of the models we created. It definitely made me realize how it affects the understanding of your design by another person at a very huge scale.
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