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Written by Anuranjan Singh, interning at FHD Group As part of our design process, we believe it is important to actively look at how climate and weather patterns sculpt our built environments. At FHD, we are building advanced capabilities for analyzing exterior air movements around built environments. We simulate wind flow (both direction & speed) and study the wind patterns […]

‘Manicured to Productive’ Landscape Strategy for Indian Hospitality Author – Sriram Ramakrishnan Landscape at times is forgotten as a purely aesthetic element, which involves further costs to maintain. In such situations, the landscape is just appreciated visually from a distance without physical contact, at most utilizing its shade. But at FHD Group, Landscape is at the […]

Project: Sheraton Grand Chennai Resort and Spa Client: AR Foundations Operator: Sheraton Location: Chennai Site Area: 10.29 Acres Built-up Area: 243,000 Sq.ft. & 59,000 Sq.ft. landscape A Beach Site with a lot of Constraints! AR Foundations is a leading Chennai based developer, specializing in High-end Residential, Commercial, IT Park and Retail development. This is AR […]

FHD is a unique firm that does not believe in architectural styles, which enables each architect to evolve his own work culture. Each Director, Manager brings his/her own academic background, unique professional experience and belief system to create unique teams and projects. FHD’s belief in sustainability ties the projects into a holistic body of work. […]

The upcoming AR Hotels and Resorts is a hospitality project by AR Foundations of Chennai. AR Foundations are one of the reputed builders of the city who are dedicated to principles of professionalism, proactive attitude, ethical and transparent business practices. They hold a diversified product mix of residential, commercial and retail types along with banquet […]

Insights from Mr. Dhurgai Kumaran, Director Studio, FHD Group  Written by Vignesh Srinivasan, FHD Group During concept design as well as design development in a project, one of the key aspects is the creative journey from design intent to design response. At FHD Group, we use parametric design as part of our design process to […]

Architecture Review – An Insight into Mayfair Hotels As a leading architectural practice, it delights us to get an insight into a client’s perspective about design for a specific industry and how that affects architectural design. It provides us a deeper understanding of design as well as a better insight into the segment (hospitality in […]

A four thousand five hundred square feet farm house embedded in lush acreage has been designed by FHD for a regular and loyal client. Following a brief to design-build a home that brings in and blends well into nature, we undertook this project in entirety including landscape, lightscape and interiors. Playing with symmetric and asymmetric […]

Insights from Mr. Dhamodharan, Director of Operations,  FHD Group Written by Sriram Ramakrishnan, FHD Group As designers of over 25 million sq.ft of affordable housing projects across multiple cities in India, we wanted to share strategic insight on how to transform affordable housing projects into aspirational affordable housing solutions suitable for India’s growing middle class. By 2022, […]