HAFEEZ

CONTRACTOR

ARCHITECT OF
EVERYDAY
 HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR
• Born in Mumbai 1950, The architect
believes that a company’s beliefs,
visions and values can be
epitomized in a three-dimensional
built form and its interior ambiance.
• His designs are provocative and
unpredictable.
• Hafeez is full of surprising and
revolutionary ideas. His uncanny
ability to change his architectural
style form one commission to the
next is also a significant reason
why his work is sought after by so
many.
• Nevertheless, in two decades of
practice, he has played role in DLF Square Tower Gurgoan, India
shaping the urban built landscape
of the country.
 Methodology
• Previously he was more inclined towards
a form based architecture but later on he
designed in a very mathematical manner.
• He solves a design problem in a
mathematical way considering
parameters like site conditions, client’s
requirements, construction methodology
and economics.
• He has no style. He works as client
needs; like if clients want work according
to vaastu then he incorporates that in his
design.
• He doesn’t do many details (but he
wants) because of time and cost but his INFRASTRUCTURE LEASING & FINANCE
forms so powerful that building still looks SERVICES Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai
detailed.
• He believes that your building should
really reflect your socio-economic and
climatic relations.
 Beliefs
• He often acknowledges that
architecture can enhance brand
identity creating both the initial
buzz and enduring brand
presence.
• He explains “Architecture can
give form to belief and can
make a building into a real and
arresting symbol of brand
intent.”

DLF Gateway Tower Gurgaon, India

 Concepts & Influences
• Le-corbusier & correa’s work was the source of
inspiration during college days and also khareghat- which
he involved initially.
• The extensive use of glass and metallic panels on the
facades conforms to the high tech expression businesses
seek to achieve.
 AR. HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR
Major Works:
Mahindra Heights, Mumbai, India.
ITC Grand Central, Mumbai, India.
DLF Square Tower, Gurgaon, India.
DLF Gateway Tower , Gurgaon
IIT Hostel ,Mumbai.
IL & FS building.
 Mahindra Heights
 
•Location : Tardeo , Mumbai, India
•Storey : 25

•It is a residential development

•The building has a clear concrete used in

construction with sleek & unornamented
form.

•Marble is extensively used in flooring in

the dining, living, bedrooms and
bathrooms
•It consist of 42 tastefully designed 2 & 3
bedroom apartment and penthouse.

•2- bedroom apartments measure 134 sq.

meter
& 3-bedroom apartments are 178 sq.
meter.

•The development has a swimming pool

and health club on the 23rd floor.
ITC Grand Central
•Location : Mumbai, India
•Completion: 2005

•It’s a hotel.
•Story: 35

•Pyramid roof enhance the overall persona

of grandeur.

•This pyramid id derived from the old

construction in Mumbai and derivative from
the high court building in the fort area.

•The strict linear geometry is broken by a

series of terraces, which give a sense of
vitality.

•Lower level of building are elaborately

detailed with human scale in, mind.
•The red brick is extensively used in
building.
Interiors and ground courtyard

• This hotel boasts of a splendid British Colonial architecture

facade that creates a magical charisma of colonial past.
DLF Square Tower
•Location : Gurgoan, India
•Type :Commercial
•It is an idea of modernistic cuboid resting on
white concrete support.

•Hafeez sketched this building on a napkin

in Paris café.

•Material : Aluminum, simple glass , blue

glass, trusses

•Façade with rhythmic patterning minor

fenestration in the concrete cradle adds to the
structure austere charm.

•Roof rising from the ground expresses itself as

a sculptural object and draws attention.

•It is square in plan.

 DLF Gateway Tower
•Location : Gurgaon, India

•It is 14 storey building. Seek to create an

aesthetic based on tectonics.

•The Gateway Tower with its dynamic form

based architecture sets the tone for the
pioneering .

•Material: Glass and granite is used extensively

in the building.

•The building is decorated with granite and

glass, in which granite dominates the lower
levels and higher levels are totally wrapped in
glass.

•The stone at lower level response to the tactile

and glass argue with the visual quality.
 IIT Hostel, Mumbai

•Location : Mumbai, India

•The hostel is designed in triangular
shaped 14 storied structure with tube like
bridges connecting the blocks.
•The 15 m high bridge which immerged
out of a one building is like a glass tube.
•This sky bridge includes TV launch ,
gym, tennis, music room.
•A dramatic cone is also located in the
center of the complex which gives grand
entrance to cafeteria.
•Whole hostel is composition of voids ,
colors, curved roof and luminescent sky
bridge creates a toy like expression.
 INFRASTRUCTURE LEASING & FINANCE
SERVICES
•Location : Bandra Kurla Complex,
Mumbai

•It is elliptical in plan with four

rectangular blocks bolster the
cylindrical tower at corner.

•Its architecture, expressed with a

strong sense of form and scale
venerates the stability and strength
that the finance services stand for

•Dry clad with brushed hammered

granite up to the first five floors in the
ellipsoid structure and rest of with
aluminum and glass

•One highlight of this building is

domed shape sky light atrium which is
inscribed in the ellipsoid structure
Thank You

Submitted by:
Ashish Marwha
08611
B.Arch. 5th Semester