Kartik Papatla

Kartik Papatla

I found this sketch exercise quite intriguing because I realized I had a good understanding and background knowledge for the layout of the Harvard campus spatially. More specifically, I had a good idea for which directions the campus spread in and, in general, where things exist relative to each other. That being said, after looking at a map of campus, I was definitely less familiar with those parts of the campus that I spend less time around. As you can see from my sketch, my layout of the river houses relative to each other is most definitely off, as well as the streets around them. I live in the quad and am a concentrator in SEAS with Secondary in Music. As a result, my knowledge of the Yard and the SEAS and Law campuses as well as neighboring buildings is much stronger. Some interesting challenges I came across with this exercise were deciding what orientation for the paper I wanted to start sketching, and, relatedly, the scale of my drawings of the buildings relative to each other. Moreover, I realized that I should pay more attention to the layout of buildings between streets themselves! This part in particular was more difficult than I had originally expected.