Architecture 101 Part 2 Booklet 2 Radhika Das

Architecture 1o1 Part II From Place to Space

Radhika Das Instagram Profle Name: r4ace

Country: India

Booklet 2

Course Project An Incredible 6 Week Journey

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My Learning… Page 3--------

All My Assignments… Page 4-22-------

Learning From My Peers… Page 23--------

Acknowledgements… Page 25--------

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I have a rudimentary smart phone with low RAM & ROM and a broken digital camera. I was at first thinking I shouldn’t have taken up this course as I am unable to download any of the recommended apps or a camera that takes good pictures. Then I thought to myself that if I call myself a creative person I have no business to be complaining about the tools that I have. That is the job of a bad worker.

I decided that I will do the course and I will do all the assignments with the available tools at my disposal.

I am happy to say that I not only was able to complete each and every assignment, but was also able to think of more and more creative ways to do them with what I have.

I worked mainly with Photoshop, CorelDraw and even PowerPoint & discovered the various possibilities to do tasks at hand. My photographs were taken with my 8 mp camera in my phone.

Though I do believe that my learning would have been more enriched if I was able to use all the recommended apps, I also believe that I maximized my learning experience with what I had.

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Monday: #WeAllShineOn 34/101 Image taken from: https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=uUXRXxB5-d8

Tuesday: #NothingIsBuilt 35/101 Each & every element in the picture is separate. I have assembled all the elements and created this picture.

P.S.: Did both these in Powerpoint.

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Wednesday: #NoCowOnTheIce 36/101 My own little Stonehenge.

Built from the stones in my precious stone collection.

Thursday: #YouGetUpPart 1 37/101 The place I chose.

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Thursday: #YouGetUpPart 2 37/101 I made the place my own

Friday: #ThereIsNothing 38/101 My own little Stonehenge at the place I chose

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Monday: #ThePrimaryFactor 39/101 Leap from Zabriskie Point

Tuesday: #TheSimplestWay 40/101 Transforming Nasca.

The cave people, mammoths & bison looks on as I redesign the Nasca landscape.

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Wednesday: #TheEggHas

41/101 My graffiti on my cave wall.

I used PowerPoint & Photoshop for this.

Tuesday: #TheSimplestWay 42/101 Handscaping

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Friday: #ThereIsNoExcellent 43/101 My handscaping superimposed on a Google Earth image using Photoshop.

My google image that I used for superimposing on my hand.

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Monday: #ThereIsNoNeed 44/101 Scaling the maze

Tuesday: #AdversityIs 45/101 Amaze-amaze

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Wednesday: #OurLifeIs

46/101 The ant, the maze and the sugar cube

Thursday: #NotAllThose 47/101 The maze inside my washing machine This was particularly tricky for me.

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Friday: #IllPaintYou

48/101 The real labyrinth This is a place in Bombay called Bhuleshwar. Completely confusing and so crowded, all the time. I invariably get lost in the labyrinth of buildings and narrow lanes.

Incidently, the word for labyrinth in Hindi is ‘Bhulbhulaiya’. The word ‘Bhul’ in Hindi means to forget. So I think the place is aptly named as Bhul-eshwar

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Monday: #TheValueOf 49/101 Magic under the sheets.

Loved how the colors & shadows came alive. I enjoyed this one. The difficulty was what to choose from all the images that I got.

Tuesday: #BeholdHuman 50/101 Decorating the cave In this exercise I have paid tribute to one of the greatest artists of our time, MF Husain. I have tried to replicate his trademark horses here.

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Wednesday: #MaybeThe 51/101 A visitors in my cave My tribute to MF Husain continues. I have a couple of visitors visiting my cave.

Thursday: #YabbaDabba 52/101 My cheese cave.

Couldn't find Emmental so had to settle for a plain old cheese slice. Discovered so many possibilities.

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Friday: #WhoWouldBelieve 53/101 My paper cave world.

I conceptualized this paper cave and when I executed it I was really happy to see the results.

The paper cave I made.

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Monday: #ThroughSpace

54/101 My paper lovers.

My scale was about 1 cm to a foot.

Tuesday: #BeforeIMake 55/101 The tree and the wall

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Wednesday: #AllTheRivers

56/101 Assembling the elements.

& 1 more image because I liked it & wanted to share it.

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Thursday: #WhatsThatScreaming 57/101 Assembling all the elements amidst nature.

The location is a forest area near my house with a kind of a river flowing through.

Friday: #IfItHadBeen 58/101 In the digital world.

The image is of a screenshot of a game.

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Monday: #MarbleIsNot 59/101 The walls.

I used CorelDraw to build the walls and assembled the elements together in PhotoShop

Tuesday: #RetainYour 60/101 My floor.

I made a kind of a retro floor. Is it evident? I made it in CorelDraw and used Photoshop to assemble all the elements.

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Wednesday: #IWouldRather

61/101 I am a columnist.

I used CorelDraw to construct the columns and Photoshop to assemble all the elements.

Thursday: #TheEgoIs 62/101 Keeping it simple with my basic shape roof supported by a single column.

CorelDraw to construct the column, roof & other elements and Photoshop to assemble them.

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Friday: #ToGatherHoney

63/101 My humble hut.

The challenge was to take all the 4 elements made earlier and assemble them as a coherent whole.

I used another roof that I had made and modified the walls to suit this.

Used CorelDraw & Photoshop.

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Carlos Andrés Díaz‎

Hats off to all my Architecture 1o1 friends from all over the world.

What I enjoyed most during this course was the peer-to-peer evaluation.

It was a pleasure seeing the visualizations of my friends: The thought that went into the work, the trouble taken and the creativity.

Not just evaluating and seeing what other have done but also hearing from them about my work. Especially the criticisms. I appreciate those the most as it points to me where I have scope to improve.

Some of the work presented by my peers were really inspirational. Some inspired by their simplicity and others by their creativity.

All-in-all this course and work done by my peers have been a learning experience and I look forward to the next part eagerly.

Here, alongside, I have added a few of the many of my new found friends’ work that inspired me. It was a difficult task choosing what to present.

Steve Green

Claire Bolsens

Sarah Kaushik

Sophia Mark

Mikhail Silberstein

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Acknowledgments: A BIG THANKSto my inspiring teachers

Stefano Mirti Anne-Sophie Gauvin Thanks to everyone who worked hard to bring us this course including iversity & Abadir University.

Thanks to my peers. I have learnt a lot from you & I hope I contributed to your experience of this course.

Last but not the least, a big thanks to my husband, Mahendra Bachhav, who has been the epitome of patience and encouragement through my madness ;-)

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Architecture 1o1 Part II Radhika Das