AR.HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR

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AR.HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR
ARCHITECT SEMINAR
BY- AKSHAY KUMAR SUMAN B.ARCH. IV YEAR
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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.

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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.

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PHILOSPHY

• The architects believes that a companys 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.

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Methodology

• Previously he was more inclined towards a form
  based architecture but later on he designed in
  very mathematical manner.( site condition,
  clients 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 doesnt 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.

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• 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.

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LAKE CASTLE,POWAI

• Location - Powai,Mumbai.
• Client - Hiranandani Const. Pvt. Ltd.

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ELEVATION
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• 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 backdrop.

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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.

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