In a city like Mumbai, where reinvention is constant yet memory lingers stubbornly beneath every layer of change, adaptive reuse has become more than a design strategy; it has become a cultural responsibility. Nowhere is this more evident than in Lower Parel, once the industrial backbone of the city’s textile economy, where mills that powered livelihoods and movements have slowly been reabsorbed into Mumbai’s contemporary social life. It is within this charged context that La