Evoking memory while remaining firmly in the present, Raintree Home is a triumph of design for Studio Urban Form + Objects.
Memories of growing up in a family home are powerful, and it’s not often that opportunities arise to revisit and remember. However, for one architect, moving back to the place of his childhood became a project without peer.
For Vineet Vora and his partner, Prachi Parekh – co-founders of Studio Urban Form + Objects (Studio UF+O) – reimagining the home that Vora’s grandfather had built in the 1950s became a labour love.
For 48 years Vora and his family lived in the Art Deco house in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, moving away in 2000. Other families had taken up residence over the past decades and left their own stamp on the building, and so the home was both familiar and unfamiliar in its disrepair.
