Esquisse... [e′skēs] (architecture) A preliminary sketch or design drawing showing the basic features of a project.

Every semester ought to begin with a time problem or esquisse in design, to see what you learnt in the previous semesters in services and construction technologies.

It is important to understand how to seamlessly integrate services, structures and construction technology ideas into a design idea. Otherwise design concept remains only, most of the times, a visual exercise with certain amount of functional efficiency built in.

Here is one such time problem done in the beginning of the third year in 1975 in my class, to design a public toilet in a market place accessible to poor settlers in the area who had no access to toilet facilities.

The submission was to be done in two butter sheets over a period of a weekend.

Today a re-do done in SketchUp as a virtual model, the functional, structural, services components of a visual statement attempted through pen and ink drawings become clearer to me…

The manual pen and ink drawings on Butter paper, 1975:

A Sketch Up model exploration, 2018: