スリランカを代表する建築家ジェフリー・バワ。その代表作がカンダラマホテル。
Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka's leading architect. His masterpiece is the Kandalama Hotel.
The exterior appearance of Kandalama Hotel covered with green.
カンダラマホテルは、小山を背に、潅漑池に面する地に立ちます。建物は、小山に沿って、１キロ近く線状に伸びます。コンクリートの柱梁を単純に組み立てただけなのに、これだけ魅力的なのは、建築をもう一つのランドスケーブとしてデザインしたような絶妙な配置と、オープンスペースの豊かさ、そして、外観を覆う旺盛な緑ゆえ。
一本道のような歩廊に沿って、ホテルのすべての機能が並び、西端のブールから東端のスバまで歩くと、もう一つのランドスケープを体験します。歩廊は、ときに、ブリッジや、岩をうがったトンネルに変わり、階段や、機能の切り替わる要所でふくらむと、そこがオープンスペースとなります。余白のようなスペースが、ホテルの面積の大半を占め、贅沢です。
オープンスペースの椅子に腰掛け、茫漠とした潅漑池の風景と静かに向き合うと、劇的でないことに、日常の雑念が洗われました。
自然の中での建設に対して、僧院跡への影響を懸念した僧の抗議や、池の水に影響を与えるとの環境保護主義者による批判が挙がり、その対応で、配置を変更し、給排水や外観に配慮し、自然に溶け込んだ建築が生まれたそうです。
The Kandalama Hotel faces the irrigation pond with a small mountain in the background.
The linear plan of the building extends for nearly a kilometer along the hills. Its shape built with concrete columns and beams is simple. Nonetheless, it becomes very attractive because of the exquisite layout of the architecture like another landscape, the richness of open spaces, and the vibrant greenery that covers the exterior appearance.
Along a passage, all the functions of the hotel are lined up, and when walking from the pool at the west end to the spa at the east end, a guest experiences another landscape. Occasionally, the passage becomes a bridge or a tunnel that excavates a rock, and at points where it encounters stairs or a function changes, the passage swells to create an open space. It is a luxury that the open spaces like a margin occupy most of the area of the hotel.
When sitting in a chair in an open space and interacting with the vague scenery of the pond, my worldly thoughts disappeared by not being dramatic.
The construction in nature concerned monks about its impact on the ruin of a monastery and environmentalists about the affection to the pond's water. In response to those, Bawa changed the layout and paid more attention to water and the exterior appearance. The architecture resulted in blending more into nature.
See the scenery of a irrigation pond from the hotel and the rock mountain of the World Heritage site Sigiriya beyond it.
The Kandalama Hotel covered with green.
An open space in the middle of the passage and the irrigation pond beyond it.
An open space in the middle of the passage.
An open space in the middle of the passage and the irrigation pond beyond it.
See a swimming pool in the middle of the passage and the irrigation pond beyond it.
A part of the passage becomes a bridge.
A guest room.
Monkeys living in the forest visit a guest room.
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もっと詳しく → 旅行の時間 - ジェフリー・バワの建築：カンダラマホテル - 1（カンダラマ、スリランカ）
When you want to know more → Time of Travel - Architecture of Geoffrey Bawa : Kandalama Hotel - 1 (Kandalama, Sri Lanka)
参考文献 / reference
"Geoffrey Bawa the Complete Works" (David Robson, Thames & Hudson, 2002)
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