Tag: University of Moratuwa

Presented by the Architecture Student Society,” Interstice” is a collection of 2025 final year Design thesis from the Department of Architecture of University of Moratuwa.

The Integrated Design Conference (IDR) held annually hosts yet another panel discussion titled; “From Old Verandahs to New Spaces : The Journey of a Planter’s Chair”. Professor Nimal De Silva and Architect Ashley De Vos will be the experts joining the discussion on the topic and the panelists consist of international experts on the subject: Rachel Lee, Sarita Sundhar, Paoletta Hoist.The evolution of the planter’s chair from the Colonial times to the current times is explored whereas the historical context, evolution and design’s significance up-to-date will be explored.

Development in Science & technology fields of a country is required for national development & it is globally competitive. Sri Lanka is still a developing country and needs a catalyst to reach its development goals.  Most of the developed countries focus their attention on Research & development of Science & Technology. Their hi-tech production & hi-tech exports are massive in scale. Sri Lanka is at the bottom of it even though we have numerous resources including literate people in the field.

Kalutara being a coastal city close to Colombo while having the beautiful Calido beach and Kalu ganga nearby, it is vastly potent to be developed as a tourist destination similar to Hikkaduwa, Unawatuna and Mirissa. This particular resort proposal for the Calido beach is the initial step of this long- running mission.

A Moving story “National Geo-Monument Park” at Alagalla Mountain Range in Sri Lanka, is a landscape architectural project with a whole new concept of appreciating nature in form of natural state.  Making an awareness of the nature and its processes through sequence of spaces to the people and to blend the nature and human instinct.

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.