College Ambience

Day and date: Friday, 30.06.2023

Day and date: 10.00 a.m. to 04.00 p.m.

Venue: 2nd Floor, SBPCOAD College, Nigdi

Conducted by : Respected Principal Sir Dr. Mahendra Sonawane, Ar. Rutusha Laddha & Ar. Shreeya Kanade

Subject : Enhancement & renovation of Second floor of SBPCOAD College building with respect to SBPCOAD conference & inauguration of art gallery.

Objective: To enhance and update the Permanent Ambience of Second floor including all the connecting & interactive passage areas and the wall surfaces.

Brief of the Event:

Respected Principal Sir along with the ambience team monitored & surveyed the entire college building in order to identify the areas where the renovation / upgradation had to be done for conduction of SBPCOAD conference & inauguration of student’s art gallery.

Faculty in charge for Ambience portfolio were further guided & instructed by Principal Sir regarding how the ambience can be uplifted using various mediums of display & presentation.

Following are few items of work that were identified & finalized for the same:

• Wall Painting showing informative architectural graphics & drawings to be done on few walls.
• Upgradation of existing committee boards and addition of new foam boards wherever required as well as all the name tags as per the new college logo.
• Vinyl sticker & Flex printing displaying informative content related to architecture & allied fields in architecture that shall help the students to gain more knowledge.
• Acrylic sandwich panels to be installed at various intervals in the passage area on 2nd floor, displaying various information & content about allied fields in architecture such as sustainability, landscape architecture, environmental architecture & various site visits done by students etc.
• Wall painting to be done on second floor for enhancing our college’s ambience.
• Foam boards (Hitlon sheets) to be pasted in all the class rooms & passage area on 2nd floor & wherever necessary on ground, 3rd & 4th floors.

Sequence of activities held:

• There was a monitoring round by Principal Sir with Ambience team on ground, second & fourth floor of SBPCOAD college building. It was observed the existing boards of committees & various activities had to be upgraded & the existing walls had to painted bright white in order to enhance the overall ambience of 2nd floor.
• An approval note for sanctioning the budget including material procurement, labor charges, printing / plotting charges for vinyl stickers, architectural drawings & flex print, carpenter approval and activity regarding the same was initiated and completed.
• The activity started with cleaning, scrapping and removing previous displays on walls and making them ready with white wash for new architectural graphics & designs.
• A meeting was held by ambience team under Principal Sir’s guidance, where they allocated the items of work to be done to the respective faculties & explained them the overall idea & concept behind this upgradation.
• A short tour of college was again carried out by Principal Sir, where he showed the respective faculties the walls & areas to be redesigned or enhanced along with the ambience team.
• Notice for areas & tasks to be done allocation to the respective faculties and their student’s team was initiated to start the designing process for architectural graphics & paintings, flex design, vinyl sticker design, etc.
• Requirements, details, deadlines and schedule with reference to respective walls included in Ambience development were provided by the faculty in charge to the faculties.
• Faculties in charge shall work on their respective areas, come up with ideas, discuss with Principal Sir & get them approved prior the activity.
• Schedule of three consecutive working days is provided for the said activity which is 22nd June to 24th June 2023. All the faculty-in charge, student volunteers and admin representative are asked to accomplish this activity successfully during these days.
• Volunteer & willing Students of all the years are also asked to join this activity wherein a group of 5-6 students will be guided by 1 faculty member.
• This shall help students to get hands on experience of wall painting, exploring their creative ideas, encouraging their young minds to flourish, learn architectural cutting techniques & encourage their interaction & bonding with fellow students & faculties.

Photos:

Below are the photographs of completed wall paintings on second floor./