Reclaiming an Art Deco Residence through Subtraction and Spatial Continuity in Mumbai | Studio UF+O

Studio UF+O restores their layered Mumbai residence through climatic responsiveness and restrained spatial intervention. Set within a 1950s Art Deco residential building in Mumbai, Raintree Home by Studio UF+O approaches restoration through calibrated subtraction, structural renewal and spatial recalibration. The project marks architect Vineet Vora’s return to his ancestral home after 25 years, engaging the residence as both a personal and architectural reclamation shaped by multiple generations of occupation, alteration and memory.The intervention peels back accumulated additions that had gradually fragmented the original spatial clarity of the home. Non-structural partitions, enclosed terraces and multiple layers of flooring were removed to […]