ARCHITECT SEMINAR
AR.HAFEEZ
CONTRACTOR
BYAKSHAY KUMAR SUMAN
B.ARCH. IV YEAR
BIOGRAPHY
• BORN
1950.
-Mumbai
19
June
• 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 the corner of
the building.
LAKE CASTLE,POWAI
• Location - Powai,Mumbai.
• Client - Hiranandani Const. Pvt. Ltd.
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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
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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
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