Lunuganga - Geoffrey Bawa

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"one of the most exciting moments was the opening up of vistas..not based on prearranged formality..the garden planned itself" Geoffrey Bawa

Location

Lunuganga is located 5km inland from Bentota on Lake Dedduwa on Sri Lanka’s west coast.

The 25 acres of garden at Lunuganga is the creation of one man’s vision which, over 40 years, was nurtured into a reality. After purchasing an abandoned rubber estate in 1948, Geoffrey Bawa created this tropical garden idyll. The Italian inspired gardens, with spectacular views over the lake and tropical jungle, has been transformed into a series of outdoor rooms creating a huge feeling of space with vistas that have been carefully chosen to emphasize their beauty with points of architecture and art; from entrances, pavilions, broad walks to a multitude of courtyards and pools.

Conceptually the garden at Bentota probably owes more to the great gardens of renaissance Italy and 18th century England than it does to the Mogul gardens of India, and yet it uses these European models to create an essentially Asian experience.

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And it is a A perfect equilibrium between hard and soft landscape is created by the paving, creating a gradation of density towards the lake.

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The approach to the lunuganga is oblique, reach from a narrow cause way which crosses the Dedduwa Lake and suddenly disappear back into the trees and must negotiated two more junctions before finding narrow track which leads across a rice paddy towards a thickly wooded hill.

The main route, highly enclosed by dense trees on both sides, seems to draw the visitor straight ahead, which way leads to the sunken ha-ha creating a focal point. Which produce sequence the approach to the entry. Only the most observant will spot the real driveway darting away up the hill to the right. Two steeper turns and to a gravel platform under a dense canopy of trees.
Special and visual continuity is well maintained by short flight of steps to the first terrace from the gravel platform. On the right the guest wing bridges over the pavement which links through to the Eastern Terraces, while ahead a welcoming loggia indicates the broad flight of steps which carry us upwards and turn us on to the south terrace of the main house. The spatial visual continuation is between terraces is well maintained by creating a spatial cascade.

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The Eastern Terrace with its studio and sculpture gallery, have a framed infinite view, seems to leads the visitor straight ahead. The boundary is well defined by horizontal planes on ether side created by the landscape, which reinforce the infinite view.

Framed views created by the landscape,

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Spatial and visual continuity is interrupted between eastern terrace and lower level lily pond, the visitor want be able to see it until the arrival to the edge the terrace.

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more...................

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more to come ...................

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o my gosh, is the foliage self-sufficient or is it gardened?

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thanks... and could you please edit your first few posts in this thread?
that's what i meant with your other thread... do you mind starting a new one of the previous thread you started in the correct posting requirements?

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o my gosh, is the foliage self-sufficient or is it gardened?

Well its all about assemble the various elements of the garden into an infinite number of different spatial sequences.

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thanks... and could you please edit your first few posts in this thread?
that's what i meant with your other thread... do you mind starting a new one of the previous thread you started in the correct posting requirements?

cheers

Cheers

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Sleepy leopard (an Active animal rather using a lazy one) at the Water Gate give sense of relaxing and a strong sense of enclosure is produce by trees when seated in the bench near by . The perfect equilibrium hard and soft landscapes creates really astonishing place for relax. Also act as the End point of the journey.