Hotel / Beach holiday resort
Konesapuri Sampalthivu,
Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Architecture, Interior design, and Landscape architecture
Commencement
Scale
Status
2021
Public spaces + 32 luxurious modern chalets
In progress
This coastal resort stylishly incorporates its existing environs into its design and experience. Blending in with its surrounding flora, the resort looks and feels like your own luxurious beach holiday house.
The resort reflects on its privileged location by adopting the predominant use of locally sourced materials, together with careful integration of indigenous motifs, forms and elements. The result, a harmonious balance between the clean, contemporary lines of the architecture and the soothing tones and textures of the internal and external finishes and finishing.
Terrace and spa facilities incorporate terracotta screens; adapted and stylized from traditional Sri Lankan motifs. These screens generate a marked visual contrast when combined with the dark terrazzo floors and feature walls clad in dark grey volcanic lava stones, such as Batu Candi and Batu Karangasem.
The villas are characterized by the interplay of materials that flow from the interior to exterior spaces. Smooth terrazzo walls and floors are combined with hand brushed natural timber screens, soft silk upholstery and custom-designed dark stained timber furniture to form a serene internal space. The use of timber flows into the external spaces, where timber screens wrap a private bale overlooking a private plunge pool lined with Sukabumi stone. Paras Keating, a light grey volcanic stone is applied to feature walls along the pool edge which combine with soft hues of beige and warm grey textured paint to complete the palette.
A mixture of Villa types was sensitively designed to respond to the local climatic conditions whilst maximizing views out to the surrounding beach, sea and paddy fields. Careful consideration is given to each villa plan and its built form and details to create a comfortable, energy-efficient resort style living.