Submission Stories - Prologue

Irrespective of the importance of a submission, parties, movies, and Pavagadh were always on our list of priorities. (Stories related to 'Pavagadh', a mountain of histories & mysteries are on my blogging agenda as well; have patience!!) A submission in itself was an activity to celebrate. Individual or group works, we still loved to work in one room (of not, visit the rail way station at 2a.m/4a.m for the day to day up date). There were specific reasons for those:

1. Ability to look into another work for inspiration, especially critic’s comment helped in boosting one’s confidence
2. Power naps with personal security in the same room
3. Variety in snacks (even though dinner was taken at 9pm, our day began at 10pm)
4. ……………pervious ones are vital enough!!

Describing our work areas is not an easy task. We architects always made sure every item necessary for designing was located within arms reach, lest we had to move from our yoga postures.
1. Elephant size boards hung from the wall using rope tricks, and 0.5" thick nails.
2. A common board made of glass with a tube light beneath it (specifically used for tracing sheets for building construction classes, pointless to draft individually - a waste of time)
3. Mineral Water Bottles of brands such as Aquafina, Baiiley, Bisleri, Himalayan filled with boiled water from the neighbors or cooler (if in the hostel) scattered around, two per drafting board
4. Varieties of snacks; khakra, thepla, chewda and the like, in plastic containers of varying shapes and sizes
5. Mostly all drafting instruments were shared; except for the parallels (a contraption similar to t-square; possibly designed from an inspiration of physics – ‘use of pulleys’). It was usually assumed that all will not be working at the same time, which was true.