Tag: Dilanka Bandara

By the side of the Piliyandala – Kottawa road, bordering an extensive landscape, lays the Architect’s own office. The distinctiveness of this creation is the method in which the two environments were conceptualized – a single bedroom residence, “bedsitter” which can be transformed into architect’s own office after the completion of his private residence, thereby creating the most comfortable setting for both situations, present and future. This development took its form as a rigid unmovable solid block bordering the entrance to the extensive landscape and his dwelling beyond.

“Gunasekara House”, designed for the family of Mr. and Mrs. Gunasekara is located in the outskirts of Colombo, approx. 16 km to the south of the main city. The key requirement of the client was to design a small house sets in a calm and a tranquil environment, as an escape from the busy monotonous life. The residence sets in a low lying region with its eastern side overlooking a paddy field, offering spectacular views. More than half of the land is utilized porously to reserve a large space of the site to enhance the connection with nature, while providing an experience of natural environment and a sense of freedom.

Architecture, not necessarily emerge spontaneously, instead can be evolved as a problem-solving process even for a small, personalized house. “The homestay”, was designed by connecting small scale, non-designed two existing units located in the same site at Ahangama, and now celebrate the serenity of living in collective personalized spaces under one roof.

It is often considered that the art of giving an existing house an architectural facelift while meeting the client’s difficult list of requirements is a challenge that entails much sensitivity and thought. The house at No. 73 at Railway Avenue, Nugegoda recently tackled by Archt. Dr. Nishan Wijetunge is such a project.