FOR SALE - This villa, designed and completed under our full supervision, is now for sale. Those who are interested, we highly recommend this property.

Completed Project - Homestay for Dr. Chamath and Dr. Tharindi @ Ahangama
Consutant - Chartered Architect Nadeeshan Vijayanga
Land area - 12.25 perch
Location - Station Road - Ahangama

Architecture, not necessarily emerge spontaneously instead evolve as a problem-solving process even to 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. The existing units which were built in two different times, with completely irresponsive languages deserved a total demolition. Yet, with the limited budget, the challenge was to minimize the demolishing work and bring in much existing building elements to the new design. Accordingly, the new design allows the existing footprint to remain and link the two with additional spatial requirements.

The existing non-crafted, odd building features have been sensitively merged, incorporated and concealed as to avoid the disturbances to the new building crafts, and created a unified coherency throughout the new building. The building’s expression of agglomeration of old and new has been discouraged further by introducing limited colour pallets, material pallets and the repetitiveness of features. Neither the surrounding built context nor the existing units inspired a tranquil living in the area, hence the tropical modern architectural language emerge as to recollect the building identity as a form within the context. It brings more domestic and inherent feeling while allowing the modern living inside. The non-dominating, yet expressive character of tropical modernism soften the building’s existence in the context and similarly represent the warm, and professional personality of the inhabitants.