We started with understanding the basics of orthography and drafting simple objects starting with shapes, pencil stand, folder, bench and then moving onto a vegetable cart and a pump room. Along the process, we learnt how to use different tools for drafting, controlling our line weights according to the position of the lines and also dimensioning the object to complete the draft.​ After learning how to draft, we were divided into groups and each group was assigned an existing structure. The task was to know about the structure without visiting it, finding out the dimensions of that structure through the plans and sections found online and then drafting it.

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The structure I was given as a case study was the N House, Oita, Japan by Sou Fujimoto Architects. 

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The N House itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. The second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space and the third shell creates a smaller interior space. Residents build their life inside this gradation of domain. A distinct boundary is nowhere to be found, except for a gradual change in the domain. One might say that an ideal architecture is an outdoor space that feels like the indoors and an indoor space that feels like the outdoors. In a nested structure, the inside is invariably the outside, and vice versa. My intention of the architect was to make an architecture that is not about space nor about form, but simply about expressing the riches of what are `between` houses and streets. Three nested shells eventually mean infinite nesting because the whole world is made up of infinite nesting. And here are only three of them that are given barely visible shape. The city and the house are no different from one another in the essence, but are just different approaches to a continuum of a single subject, or different expressions of the same thing- an undulation of a primordial space where humans dwell.