SAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK
TRAFFIC AND PARKING AFFECTED BY NEIGHBOURHOOD AMENITIES U20049 Maps are of much importance to many people, including designers. They help the reader look at the area mapped in a smaller, more organized way that helps them comprend their surroundings. Hence mapping is an important skill to learn as a designer. The process of mapping my neighbourhood, Thaltej, started out by having to choose a 500 sq.metre area in which my house is located. This selection of the area couldn’t be random, it had to be well thought out so that it could be more beneficial for the coming two parts of this exercise. I chose the area keeping in mind the various amenities such as schools, colleges, hotels, temples etc., which are located in close proximity to each other, that my neighbourhood has to offer as I felt it is one of the most notable characteristics. I could build around it and figure out what should be mapped in the final part of the exercise. Once the area was decided, it was marked on Google maps, and a rough map was made to represent and name the important attributes, which were the neighbourhood amenities in my case, as well as the roads and greenery with the help of the marked area in Google maps. Making this map helped me get a better sense of my surroundings in relation to where I live, which is where the tiny black house is marked in Figure 1. The next step was to make a more detailed map that showed all the buildings, roads and greenery by tracing the marked Google map on a software called AutoCAD. This was done to study the marked area in its entirety so that one could understand how the urban area is planned. I tried to show the attributes that were noted down in the first part of the exercise in this map as well. The commercial/ important buildings were highlighted in red which can be seen in the image below and trees were shown, as they are quite permanent in nature and hence showing them is of importance, keeping in mind their sizes. Making the base map helped give a clearer understanding of the neighbourhood before making the final map.
Figure 1: Places of Interest in my Neighborhood Note. Rough sketches were made to indicate some of the important buildings that affected the traffic on a daily basis. The sketches helped visualise the area better. From (Unpublished portfolio from CEPT Foundation Program Studio) by D. Shah, 2021, CEPT University. Copyright 2021 by D. Shah. Figure 2: A Laborious Process Note. Tracing Google Maps to show all the buildings in the 500 sq.m. area enlightened me in terms of my surroundings. Despite having seen all the buildings separately, seeing them all at once helped me realise how many there were in totality. From (Unpublished portfolio from CEPT Foundation Program Studio) by D. Shah, 2021, CEPT University. Copyright 2021 by D. Shah.
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