one of the problems that we are facing at present is that our fence is low and often students jump over and enter inside designing it the way we want to makes it a fun project and also provide us with creative satisfaction says amrita dasgupta a second year student who was a part of the 37student team that worked on setting up the fighter plane the students love the project and the idea has proved to be a great success he says the money we received was used to but a pottery wheel and a welding machine that we now use to learn pottery and welding skills that help architects to design better she says instead of placing barbed wires and pointed iron rods on the fence we are looking for alternatives the department head prof uv mathai gave us the permission to initiate our landscape design projects within the campus department of architectures basic design instructor mk gupta says these projects which started in a small way have now become an exercise in fun and learning according to her friends hardik and nandini architecture is more than just designing buildings it is also about learning the skills of working with different media and the campus landscape design projects are providing them the opportunity to design using a practical plane they design projects for the campus which in addition to decorating the campus landscape also fetch the students marks for their creative endeavours the plane weighed 125 kg and it took more than three and a half hours to suspend it from the terrace grid of the new building says amrita the students might design sculptures that would be placed on the fence and for the students its yet another adventurous learning experience the students on their part find the projects fun as they are involved in creating the design for their own campus a place where they have to study for five years this would give it an aesthetic appearance as well as serve our purpose he says each year students are given several design projects and each one has to come up with creative suggestions riti says that the students also made their own stone sculptures many of which were sold the idea of the air plane is symbolic in the sense it provide space in architectural terms and conveys flight of creativity says gupta landscape designs and interior decorations may be a part of the course syllabus for the ms university students of architecture but instead of limiting their study to merely plans set up on charts and cardboard the students here are trying out a practical approach at another corner of the campus the students have designed a mural made of bricks there were 37 of us in the second year and each submitted a project to design the campus it was a challenging experience as chiselling the bricks was difficult we had to be careful with them as they are brittle and