This project is an on-site exercise where have to observe, sketch and document the physical and the immediate context of the site. It can be from an element as broad as the urban planning itself down to the smallest detail of the ornaments used in the building. It may include building or structure such as a bridge; architectural elements such as windows, doors, five foot ways; architectural features such as ornaments, keystone, arches over windows, carvings, tiles layout; construction details such as staircase, roof structure; the physical context – overall urban layout, street furniture; traditional transportation such the trishaw. Moreover, some cultural aspects that can be captured also are people of the place doing their daily activities; cultural elements such as clothes, furniture, glass and china, food; traditional trade – incense shop, street side cobbler, other family businesses; urban qualities such as the rhythm created by the repetition of roof volumes, the serial visions and vistas, the circulation nodes.
We have to produce 10 onsite manual drawing that give a strong idea of the place that have carried out the Measured Drawing exercise. Throughout this project, I have learn to identify architectural historic structure and capture the tangible essence that is contained within the architecture realm.
