From FHD Group India – Top Architects for designing Affordable and Luxury Housing & Best hotel Designers

We are FHD Group, the region’s largest multi-disciplinary design firm, with expertise in architecture, interior design and landscape design and an honest approach in providing meaningful sustainable solutions to end-user and client needs. Our expertise is well balanced between Family (Multi-Family and Single Family) Residence/Community design and Hospitality – Leisure, Resort and Responsible Luxury. FHD has designed various aspects of Hospitality – Resorts, Hotels, Convention Centers across India, Middle East and now in Nepal. Prominent of which are Mayfair Hotels ( Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata etc), Sheraton Beach Resort ( Chennai), etc.

We have over 25+ years of regional experience and have completed more than 200 projects. We have a strong team of 120 people working from our offices in Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Mumbai. The second component of who we are is a think tank called FHD Studio. FHD Studio is a highly innovative team, comprising of experts within our firm as well as specialist collaborators across multiple fields, which provides cross-disciplinary solutions to forward-thinking clients.

We help owners and developers build their projects, business, and reputation. Our professional strength and commitment to well-designed high-quality projects have resulted in repeat work requests from many of our clients. We also actively engage and work with new clients, who have a strong vision, keen business acumen and the drive to deliver quality build environment.

Projects

 

Nagarkot , Hill Resort

Located in the lap of the majestic Himalayas, the Hill resort is one of our revered projects in making. The Hill Resort is getting constructed in Nagarkot, a village in Kathmandu valley. The total area under construction for the resort is around 4 acres with a level difference of 60 meters. The challenge for our designers during this project was the terrain itself owing to its hilly nature and sensitive ecology. Therefore, an extensive study on the contours and the terrain was conducted to learn the techniques of cutting the land, preserving soil, etc. for sustainable development.

Sheraton Beach Resort, Chennai

The Sheraton Beach Hotel became fully functional a year ago. The property is spread across 10 acres, of which 6 acres are kept untouched considering the Coastal Regulation Zone protection policies. The decision to go ahead and design the resort in the remaining 4 acres of land, precisely 2.4 acres being the built area, came as a challenging opportunity for our designers. However, the actual task was to come up with designs for 124 rooms in the given area without compromising on the perspectives and incomparable amenities. The total area under construction for the resort is around 4 acres with a level difference of 60 meters. The challenge for our designers during this project was the terrain itself owing to its hilly nature and sensitive ecology.

Nagesh Battula – Founder, Managing Director

Nagesh embarked on and spearheaded the Fountainhead Design Group (FHD). He is an adept architect with over 20 years of experience in residential, commercial, hospitality, retail and luxury interior projects. Nagesh envisioned a project that would be sustainable and net-zero in its resource consumption. In his stint at an age, as early as 21, he worked in 3 offices a year each, growing FHD to an humongous group in the present time. He is a passionate, self-taught leader, with an attribute to learn and unlearn quickly, which helped him cross the boundaries of confined architecture. Nagesh with an unstoppable ambition, is still a down to earth person, who does not shy away from accepting and learning from mistakes, while erring on the side of caution. He is currently on a journey to set a new paradigm of inclusive growth set up, a vision to manifest the benefits on a win-win basis to the developer and the customers. As complemented, the caption “Architecturing the future of humanity” suits him perfectly.

Vijaya Durga – Co-Founder, Director

With over 20 years of experience in the field of interior designing, Vijaya is heading the Interiors team at FHD.
She has an eye for detail and a great sense of color, fixtures and finishes, enabling her to take impeccable decisions on the spot. She shares the vigor to develop Organo, as a highly productive yet aesthetically pleasing farming community.

Rajendra Kumar – Director

Raj, as familiarly nicknamed, is the backbone of Marketing and Sales at FHD, with a focus on international and national business development, strategic planning and deal negotiations. He has an experience of over 15 years in the field of business development, design and construction. Raj has designed and marketed, India’s first sustainable collective farming community breaking the barriers of traditional methods. He postulates that a successful environment is developed, when there is a harmonious merger of social, political and global aspirations of the occupants, developers and all the associated stakeholders. He has been instrumental in helping developers, landowners and institutions exceed those aspirations. Being an entrepreneur himself, Raj, started his first firm Shobha Lighting Design (SLD) in 1997. SLD soon became one of India’s award-winning firm with projects for many historic national monuments, buildings and institutions such as Charminar, Delhi Heart, Belum Caves, Ajanta Caves, Nizam’s Jewelry in National Museum Delhi, Ethipothala Waterfalls, Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya etc.

Dhamotharan – Director Operations

Dhamu, heads the opera tions and the architectural division at FHD. He has been proficient in getting the right critical design solutions, without having compromised on the logistic efficiencies. With an experience of over 11 years in the field of architecture, he has several Master planning and large-scale architecture projects to his credit. Dhamu firmly believes that “Design is a constant evolution process with respect to time.” As an architect, he has designed various challenging master plans and implemented them successfully without compromising its intent. Having said that, Dhamu has the panoramic experience of various large-scale project right from the inception to the delivery.

Mathan Ramaiah – Director Design

Mathan is a graduate from the Columbia University, New York. He has a working experience of over 12 years in Indian firms as well as over 14 years in the International market. He is the Design Director at the FHD Group and is passionately involved in the master plan and public space design of Organo. Mathan has designed over 100 Million sq.ft of projects, ranging from 400 hectare Award-Winning Sustainable Convention Center, to a 50-storey Twin Towers in the Middle East, in addition to the projects in India. Some of his convictions :

– Best designs grow from a collaborative environment
– Design is a powerful concept and is an integral part of any human experience
– Co-designers are not as competitors, but partners for ideation
– Sustainable solutions are not “selling points”, but a necessity for every project.
– Last but not least, end-users are not occupants of space, but the key reason for that space to exist-

Dhurgai Kumaran – Head Design – Studio

Dhurgai, is the Design Manager at the FHD group. He is a Bachelor of Architecture from SAP, Anna University, Chennai and has a masters in Advanced Architectural Design from SAC, Städelschule, Germany under prof. Ben Van Berkel. Having 15 years of experience in India and Germany, he has worked as a design Architect with Bangalore based firms like ‘Inform architects’ and ‘Ocher Architects’. Enthusiastic in contemporary design methods and methodologies, he has implemented the parametric design method for the project “Skyline Plaza” for Jourdan Muller PAS, Frankfurt, Germany. He has also run the architectural studio for the M Arch programme in Anna University.

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