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A Place Of Refuge
Architecture + Design
|August 2017
Tucked away in a remote mountain side off the Digana golf club road is Kurundu house, a small four-bedroom retreat for a busy financial consultant and his family.
The site is a 132-perch bare plot except for a lonely Kohomba tree. There is no visible habitation in its immediate environs and one is immediately aware of the openness and loneliness. To add further drama, it overlooks a branch of the Victoria reservoir which fills up during the rainy season, and in the far distance is the Hunnsagiriya mountains. The approach from the main road is a rough track winding through small village huts, vegetable gardens and large Mara trees, and finally up a steep rocky lane that lands at the site. This is when one is confronted for the first time with the breathtaking view.
This story is from the August 2017 edition of Architecture + Design.
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