ARCHITECT SEMINAR AR HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR BYAKSHAY KUMAR SUMAN

ARCHITECT SEMINAR AR. HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR BYAKSHAY KUMAR SUMAN B. ARCH. IV YEAR

BIOGRAPHY • BORN -Mumbai 19 June 1950. • FAMILY- Parsi / Zoroastrian lineage included his mother Roshan, who was a teacher and his father Sorab Contrator , a business man. • Education-He did his Graduate Diploma in architecture from Mumbai in 1975 and completed his graduation from Columbia University New York (USA) on a Tata Scholarship.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND • Hafeez Contractor commenced his career in 1968 with T. Khareghat as an Apprentice Architect and in 1977 he became the associate partner in the same firm • Between 1977 and 1980 Hafeez has been a visiting faculty at the Academy of Architecture, Mumbai. He is a member of the Bombay Heritage Committee and New Delhi Lutyens Bungalow Zone Review Committee. • His practice had modest beginnings in 1982 with a staff of two. Today the firm has over 350 employees including senior associates, architects, interior designers, draftsmen, civil engineering team and architectural support staff.

PHILOSPHY • The architects believes that a company’s beliefs, visions, and values can be epitomized in a 3 -D built form and its interior ambience. • His designs are provocative and unpredictable. • Hafeez is full of surprising and revolutionary ideas. His uncanny ability to change his architectural style from one commission to next is also a significant reason why his work is sought after by so many. • He explains “architecture can give form to beliefs, and can make building into a real and arresting symbol of brand intent. ”

Methodology • Previously he was more inclined towards a form based architecture but later on he designed in very mathematical manner. ( site condition, client’s requirements, construction methodology and economics. ) • He has no style, he works according to clients need; if client want work according to Vaastu then he incorporate that in the design. • He doesn’t do many details (but he wants) because of time and cost his forms so powerful that the building still looks detailed. • He believes that your building should really reflect your socio-economic and climatic relations.

• Extensive use of glass and metallic panels on the facades confirms to the high tech expressions business seek to achieve. • Never fixed plan • Have axis but not always. • Give stress on landscaped terrace. • He picks elements from various typologies and use them as adornments for the exterior skin of the building. • He always treats the corner of the building.

LAKE CASTLE, POWAI • Location - Powai, Mumbai. • Client - Hiranandani Const. Pvt. Ltd. 7

ELEVATION

• Lake castle a residential apartment building , nested in green surrounding of powaii, just a few miles away from main Bombay is one of the most spectacular product of eighties boom. • The dominant feature of Lake castle is its massive scale. 183 m. linear length , strikes you as an ocean ship going linear of a building with multiple decks anchored on the banks of powaii lake. • Tower block is surrounded by large garden and 8 acre forest park, all the flats faces the lake. • Creating a stepped mass profile , which compliments the hills in the 9

• The architectural form is mean to symbolize a city silhouette that is made of a varying shapes and sizes. • The building is almost like a mirror reflecting the densely layered profile of the city itself. 10

• Lake castle is especially interesting because of a combination of ‘POP’ aesthetics, with conventionalized classical stylistics. • Egyptian motifs are used in building facades , like the treatment given to the columns, the friezes and the details of the iron work. • The crescent shape projecting balconies , curved projection and egyptian columns on the facades relieve the monotony into which building would have otherwise slipped. • Large French windows are repetitive features on the facades. 11

• To mitigate the broadside effect of the cliff of the building , it has been punctured with significant cutouts known as sky decks. • further these the dramatic view of the sky though the building • The stepped profile and two huge cutouts further add to lighten the building. THANK YOU Sources www. indiabuildnet. com/arch www. scribd. com/Ar-Hafeez-Contractor 12