Tag: Sanjaya Withanage

The home is inspired from the detailing and composition of the Dutch Colonial architecture expressing a contemporary feeling. Orientating the building to exposes the most out to the captive Bolgoda Lake and placing it to preserve the large garden area the building takes you through a journey towards the lake through articulations of space, volume and light.

Architect’s own house designed in an urban area yet, with a natural setting covered with foliage where the name for the house was given as ‘Tamarind House’ accordingly. This is conceptually a response to the site which is at the end of a short road. Since the adjoining sites are bare lands the design was done predicting the outcome and turning the house inward to face a garden courtyard.