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Architecture and interior design firm with offices in Bangalore and kochi Space Perception is an architecture and interior design firm based from Bangalore.

18/10/2026

Lunuganga The Main House | Geoffrey Bawa

Lunuganga is more than a historic country house: it is the living laboratory where Geoffrey Bawa developed an architecture rooted in landscape, climate and experience. Beginning in 1948 with a neglected rubber estate and modest bungalow in Bentota, Sri Lanka, Bawa spent more than four decades transforming the property into an evolving composition of rooms, gardens, terraces and framed views.

Over four decades, Bawa transformed the house by adapting and extending it rather than replacing it. Its red-tiled roof, whitewashed walls and shaded verandahs evoke a familiar tropical vernacular, while composed terraces, framed views and intimate garden connections reveal his distinctive sensibility.

At Lunuganga, the house was never an isolated object but part of a larger landscape, where architecture, vegetation, water, light and shadow continually interact. Each opening frames the garden; each verandah becomes a threshold between shelter and nature.

More than a country house, Lunuganga was an evolving canvas shaped by time, memory and imagination a place where Bawa tested ideas that would influence his practice for decades.

At Lunuganga, the garden is not a backdrop to the architecture. The architecture is part of the garden.

📍 Lunuganga, Bentota, Sri Lanka

11/10/2026

Bawa died in May 2003. Accounts of Lunuganga record that he was cremated and his ashes were buried in the garden, at Cinnamon Hill. Perhaps, then, his final wish can be understood as the completion of his most personal architectural idea: to belong to the place rather than merely to leave something behind in it.
The architect who spent a lifetime framing nature ultimately chose to rest within the very landscape he had framed.
At Cinnamon Hill, Bawa’s story seems to come full circle. The garden continues to grow, the trees continue to change, and the lake continues to reflect the passing sky. His architecture remains, but so does something more enduring his relationship with the living world.
In the end, Geoffrey Bawa did not simply leave behind a garden. He chose to make the garden his lasting home.

01/10/2026

This looks like an old building. But Geoffrey Bawa built this office from the past. Around 1982, Bawa assembled this pavilion from salvaged parts while working on some of his largest projects. His chair was placed at the intersection of several important views. His workplace itself became part of his architectural experiment.

The office was simultaneously:

studio, observatory, garden pavilion and retreat.

27/09/2026

Before Lunuganga became the masterpiece we know today, it was simply a modest plantation bungalow surrounded by rubber trees.

Geoffrey Bawa acquired the estate near Bentota in 1948–49, when he was still a lawyer and had not yet become an architect.

He didn’t begin by designing a new building.

Instead, he began by working with what was already there the old bungalow, the two low hills, the lake, the vegetation and the existing landscape.

Through the 1950s, he gradually reshaped the terrain, created terraces, opened vistas towards Dedduwa Lake and reoriented the approach to the house.

The original bungalow became the hub of the composition.

Later came small structures a covered bridge, staff house and tiny pavilions each carefully positioned within the landscape.

Over the next five decades, Lunuganga grew incrementally.

It was never designed as a finished project. It evolved as Bawa’s personal laboratory where architecture, landscape and the experience of moving through space became one.

Perhaps that is what makes Lunuganga so powerful:

Bawa didn’t simply build a garden. He slowly discovered an architecture within the landscape..

25/09/2026

Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga is a garden designed as a series of views.

Here, the famous Butterfly Pond becomes more than a water feature. Water, lilies, vegetation, pathways and sculpture are carefully composed into one frame.

20/09/2026

30’ × 50’, but make it feel like a little universe of its own.
A clean, contemporary façade with climbing greens gives way to sunlit spaces, warm wood, soft sage hues and cane textures that bring instant ease.
From breakfast-table chatter to quiet work corners, every square foot has a story—and plenty of personality.

15/09/2026

Building with purpose.
A house shaped by material conscious construction, featuring filler slabs with terracotta pots and jack-arch details reducing concrete consumption while adding warmth, texture and character to the ceilings.

Traditional techniques. Contemporary architecture.

06/09/2026

Compressed Stabilised Earth Blocks bring natural warmth, texture and timeless character into the home creating spaces that feel grounded, quiet and connected to nature.

28/08/2026

Quartzite for Kitchen counter top and wall dado selection in progress.. Base line color of white and grey

04/08/2026

Compact Plot. Grand Living.

How do you fit four bedrooms, a home theater, spacious living and dining areas, an open kitchen, utility, service utility, maid’s room with toilet, outdoor barbecue space, and car parking—all within a 30’ × 50’ plot?

Address

1 B, Sree Sai Harshaa Towers, Opp Forum Value Mall, Whitefield
Bangalore
560066

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 6pm

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+919900013580

Website

http://www.spaceperception.in/

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