Chuda Designs
Where Architecture and Technology meet Art
IN THE BEGINNING...
However did we manage without the computer and CAD?
Well, one way was to draw on tracing paper, enhance your lines using proprietary drawing pens and then use the contact print process on light-sensitive paper and suffer the inherent pungent ammonia to produce a perspective of a proposed block of maisonettes.
160gsm white paper did nicely as the "drawing canvas" when tightly stretched and fixed over a timber frame using a plain flour mix as adhesive. Set up the interior of a vestibule in pencil and finish it all off with a day or two of airbrushing!
Sometimes it was necessary to work on three separate square-metre frames and then place them side by side to give the complete picture.
Alternatively the particleboard experience, though extremely time consuming, always did wonders for me back in the 80s.
With 30 years of neglect and dilapidation this block of maisonettes doesn't look like much now but it was once a source of pride for the town of Kasama and for Neville Ravensdale (Raven Design Associates) who designed it and Robin Chella (now of Chuda Designs) who did the blueprint details and carried out site supervision/meetings as the structures went up and past that to the final completion certificate.