Renovation, restoration and adaptive reuse — for houses that need to work differently, and for buildings worth keeping.
Renovation is harder than new construction and almost always more interesting. You inherit someone else's structure, someone else's plumbing and someone else's decisions, and you have to find the version of the building that does what you now need — without pretending the existing fabric is not there.
The work begins with honesty about what is actually standing. A measured survey and a structural assessment come before any design, because a plan drawn on an assumption gets torn up on site.
What can carry load, what has to go, and what is cheaper to rebuild than to repair — established before design, not during.
The part that changes how the building lives: walls moved, light brought in, circulation rationalised, services re-routed.
Repair, replacement or a new skin — with waterproofing treated as a design decision rather than a site afterthought.
Material-matched repair, documentation of what exists, and new work that is legible as new.
A new programme inside an old envelope — a house into a studio, a warehouse into a workplace.
Staging so a family or a business can keep using part of the building while the rest is worked on.
This is the first question and it deserves a real answer rather than the one that suits the architect. Sometimes the structure is sound, the location is irreplaceable and renovation is clearly right. Sometimes the frame is failing, the floor heights are wrong for what you want, and every rupee spent on repair is a rupee spent badly. We assess and tell you which it is — including when it means a smaller commission for us.
Older buildings were made of materials that behave differently from modern ones: lime, timber, stone, brick in mud mortar. Repairing them with cement because it is what is available on site causes damage that shows up years later. Where a building deserves it, we specify material-matched repair and document what exists before it is touched.
