Architecture 1o1Part II

From Place to Space

Booklet 2

Course ProjectAn Incredible 6 Week Journey

Radhika DasInstagram Profle Name: r4ace

Country: India

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All My Assignments… Page 4-22-------

Acknowledgements… Page 25--------

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

My Learning… Page 3--------

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 willdo 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

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

Tuesday: #NothingIsBuilt

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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

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My own little Stonehenge. Built from the stones in my precious stone collection.

Thursday: #YouGetUp-Part 1

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The place I chose.

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Friday: #ThereIsNothing

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My own little Stonehenge at the place I chose

Thursday: #YouGetUp-Part 2

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I made the place my own

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Tuesday: #TheSimplestWay

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Transforming Nasca.

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

Monday: #ThePrimaryFactor

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Leap from ZabriskiePoint

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Tuesday: #TheSimplestWay

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Handscaping

Wednesday: #TheEggHas

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My graffiti on my cave wall.

I used PowerPoint & Photoshop for this.

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

Friday: #ThereIsNoExcellent

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My handscapingsuperimposed on a Google Earth image using Photoshop.

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Tuesday:

#AdversityIs

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Amaze-amaze

Monday: #ThereIsNoNeed

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Scaling the maze

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Thursday:

#NotAllThose

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The maze inside my washing machine

This was particularly tricky for me.

Wednesday:

#OurLifeIs

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The ant, the maze and the sugar cube

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Friday:

#IllPaintYou

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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 ‘Bhul-bhulaiya’. The word ‘Bhul’ in Hindi means to forget. So I think the place is aptly named as Bhul-eshwar

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Tuesday:

#BeholdHuman

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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.

Monday:

#TheValueOf

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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.

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Thursday:

#YabbaDabba

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My cheese cave.

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

Wednesday:

#MaybeThe

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A visitors in my cave

My tribute to MF Husain continues. I have a couple of visitors visiting my cave.

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The paper cave I made.

Friday:

#WhoWouldBelieve

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My paper cave world.

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

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Tuesday:

#BeforeIMake

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The tree and the wall

Monday:

#ThroughSpace

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My paper lovers.

My scale was about 1 cm to a foot.

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

Wednesday:

#AllTheRivers

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Assembling the elements.

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Friday:

#IfItHadBeen

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In the digital world.

The image is of a screenshot of a game.

Thursday: #WhatsThatScreaming

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Assembling all the elements amidst nature.

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

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Tuesday:

#RetainYour

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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.

Monday:

#MarbleIsNot

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The walls.

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

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Thursday:

#TheEgoIs

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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.

Wednesday:

#IWouldRather

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I am a columnist.

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

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Friday:

#ToGatherHoney

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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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Hats off to all my Architecture 1o1friends 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.

Carlos Andrés Díaz‎

Steve Green

Claire Bolsens

Sarah Kaushik

Sophia Mark

Mikhail Silberstein

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Acknowledgments:

A BIG THANKSto my inspiring teachers

Stefano MirtiAnne-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 ;-)

Architecture 1o1Part II

Radhika Das