The beginning (Continued) | Part 04

The beginning (Continued)

In my second year, I was technically being exposed into making plans and sections as we had to design a weekend home and a highway pit stop for the two semesters respectively. Though it was slightly boring that the first year, I was so overwhelmed to draw plans and show it off before my family and friends that I actually started doing stuffs what a person being an architect does! I did refer my own house for measurements and dimensions so as to incorporate the same into my design. A lot of case studies were being brought before our eyes for references. In the end of the semester, I did create some super cool models of what I intended to create regarding the assigned topic. In the fourth semester, the site was little much more in its area and the building had to be designed strictly following the building rules because it was a pit stop. At the end of the semester I did some rubbish and presented it before the juror and I passed the subject.

It was all a kind of new learning both from paper and from personal experience for us. Still I liked the studio hours the most apart from other theoretical subjects because I hated writing so much!

One of our associate professor, architect Shinoop used to invite us to his studio at Parappanangadi. The studio had a triangular elevation and that was the first time shapes amused me in real life. The studio was named Attic Lab because it resembled like an attic of a house. I love going there but I was limited to the transportation facility. This guy used to have technical knowledge on music and has got a lot of instrument inside his studio. I go there only for playing on these instruments. It is always fun and I dreamt of such a studio for our college as well, where the activity inside is never limited to theoretical learning alone.

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