Tag: Sri Lanka

Located in the vicinity of the Sinhalese Sports Club, symbolic church of Sri Lankan cricket, the mercantile cricket associations’ has lot to live up to in terms of Sri Lankan Cricket and it’s tradition. A small office in the first floor, which overlooks the ground below, runs the operations for the mercantile cricket association. Renovation of this office interior space to maintain the pride of the long history of the place was the challenge presented to the Architect. It needed a solution that reaches beyond the realm of ordinary cubicles and partitions and provide a statement about the place.

Neem Villa is a fusion of responsive and robustness, that depicts less and light sensibilities. Located in the famous down south region of Sri Lanka, 264 km away from the capital city of Colombo in Thissamaharama town. This area is well known for the nearby Yala wildlife sanctuary, which is the most visited and second largest national park in Sri Lanka.

Level III (Bachelor of Architecture) Project in 2016 by Dilik Abeyakoon City School of Architecture, Sri Lanka Accommodation Facility and other supporting facilities. It provide accommodation for more than 35 adults. The Activity Center for Elders will enrich the lives of seniors by bringing them together for socialization, keeping them active. The Day Care for […]

Being a library building situated in the rural town of Ambepussa, which is a mesmerizing location with country views, this project aimed at re-organizing trade skills of army soldiers in the post war Sri Lanka. The craftsmanship of the soldiers was re-generated through this social library project where strategic training interventions were introduced to re-train the soldiers in building construction skills. The basic design approach of this project seems using creativity in architecture without harming the natural patterns of the existing landscape while relying on materials found from the site and its vicinity. Completed in 2016, this library caters to the soldiers and their family members, as well as to the neighbouring community, especially children who study in the nearby primary schools.

In October 2014, a huge landslide struck Sri Lanka in the district of Badulla- a hilly region, which caused many fatalities and left people missing forever. This lead to a whole community of line-house dwellers being flushed away and buried by dawn, while some victims were still sleeping. It became Sri Lanka’s second largest natural disaster; the first being the Tsunami, within recent history. The Meeriyabedda tea estate disappeared from the geographical map and people who were displaced were retained in schools that served as temporary camps. By 2015 they are still in the same camps as there is nowhere to go and no resettlement plans are being implemented. However, the government has begun planning for a resettlement program for these people and to launch it in a massive scale throughout the whole tea estate labor sector.