Architecture firm Studio PKA has transformed part of a disused 100-year-old building in Mumbai into its own contemporary office space.
Called The Loft, the adaptive reuse project focused on the fourth floor of a Victorian-era warehouse in the city's South Bombay, an art district nicknamed SoBo.
Photo is by Deepshikha Jain.
The architecture studio gently "peeled away" decades worth of ad-hoc additions to the building, stripping it back to exposed brick walls and visible ceiling beams.
"The space, a part of a heritage structure, was acquired with the windows boarded up, the wooden trusses retrofitted with metal bracings and non-Load bearing brick walls enclosing and segregating zones from one another," said Studio PKA.

Unboarded and repaired, the tall arched windows let light into the open-plan office space. The wooden trusses and purlins of the roof were refurbished, and layers of paint and plaster sanded back to rediscover the building's original character.

Studio PKA sourced old disused doors from demolished buildings around Mumbai to put in some of the doorways.
For the other additions, the studio stuck to a simple palette of glass, metal, bricks, and cement blocks and boards. These materials were used to divide the space up into an office.
Photo is by Deepshikha Jain.
Entering via the stairs, visitors are greeted by a stone-floored atrium with a front desk against a partition wall of glass in thick metal frames.
On the other side of the wall, an ope...