Holiday Cabana in Maduru Oya, Sri Lanka by Damith Premathilake designed using SketchUp

Holiday Cabana at Maduru Oya

The architect handled the renovation project at ‘Maduru Oya’ Army Camp where the training school for Special Forces of the Sri Lankan army is located. The camp is surrounded by jungle and faces the lake front of Maduru Oya.

Night View

• Principal Architect : Damith Premathilake
• Name of Project: Holiday Cabana
• Location: Maduru Oya, Sri Lanka
• The total Project area : 1050 Sq.ft
• Project Period : Four months
• Project completion date : January 2010
• Client : Lieutenant Colonel Chandimal Peiris (SF Camp – Maduru Oya)
• Photographers : Logan MacDaugall Pope, Damith Premathilake
• Software used: Architectural Sketch-Up to do the 3D images and rendering

Exterior View

‘Maduru Oya’ lake front was the back drop to the site with a range of mountains making the contextual enclosure, stretching towards the land side of the camp. The visual axis towards the mountain range takes the visitor’s mind into different settings due to the water of the lake front, the solid mountains with the green belt under a canopy of blue sky. It is a place to relax with inviting character.

Exterior View

While the architect & the client were having a discussion on the renovation project near the lake front, the client did not forget to talk about the tranquility of the surrounding setting.

Images Courtesy Logan MacDaugall Pope and Damith Premathilake

The discussion took place in an idealist setting, endorsing the need to enhance this character architecturally, to create a place for relaxation with the lake front.

Bedroom

There were some container boxes abandoned after the war. They were lying close by, without being made use of. The container boxes with their enormous interior space could provide the architect an excellent opportunity to design a setting using them as part of the created space.

Interior View

The conceptual sketch was done by the Architect considering the entire natural and man made elements already available in the surroundings. The Client was advised to find the material such as timber strips form the old bunkers and weapon boxes, old used ‘H’ irons, steel rods and used railway sleepers for the interior and exteriors. The idea was to create the space using the available resources within the surrounding environment.

Images Courtesy Logan MacDaugall Pope and Damith Premathilake

But the most challenging task in this scheme was to create a resting place that could enable the visitor to experience the environmental quality and the space without making any interruption or damage to the existing natural ambience. Further, there was no trained skilled construction team to undertake the project to make it a reality except the soldiers’ who were in the camp. The architect was placed with the challenge to ensure that the soldiers are able to transform the imagined abstraction into reality.

Night View

At the end holiday cabana at Maduru Oya became the ideal destination for the traveler seeking a relaxing and rustic vacation in a specious, quiet, and tranquil setting.

Entrance

History

Damith Prematilake is a young practicing Chartered Architect who completed his Architectural education at the University of Moratuwa and he obtained his bachelors degree (B.Sc.)  In Built Environment in 2001 and post graduate architecture (M.sc)  in 2006 and completed the AIA (SL) in 2008 and currently following Landscape post graduate at the University of Moratuwa. His experience in the field runs back nearly nine years where he worked for many senior Architects.

He has had wide experience in comprehensive Architectural Practice in residential buildings, commercial buildings, hotel buildings and religious buildings. In the short span of his carrier he has involved himself in varying projects to different clientele.

Interior View

Philosophy

Deliver best innovative Architectural solutions to make the clients’ satisfaction in relation to context as well as internal spaces to induce user behavior to achieve their ultimate goal.

Damith Premathilake

Scope of work

The practitioner together with his team of consultants provides comprehensive consortium service as well as individual services for diversified projects.

Damith Premathilake

Tags: Maduru Oya, Sri Lanka

Categories: Camp, SketchUp

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