?Tree Tops?, a holiday bungalow built for an extended family of wild life enthusiasts, stands on an acre of land parcel in Tissamaharama, Southern  Sri Lanka, overlooking the famous ?Yala? national park; famed for highest density of Leopards in the world.

© Thilina Wijesiri

Architects: Chinthaka Wickramage

Location: Nidangalawella Road, Kirinda 82600, Sri Lanka

Architect In Charge: Chinthaka Wickramage

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Thilina Wijesiri

Consultants: Chinthaka Wickramage Associates

Structural Engineer: Ranjith Wijegunasekara

Quantity Surveyor: Sunanda Gnanasiri

Contractor: W. S. Upali

© Thilina Wijesiri
?Tree Tops?, a holiday bungalow built for an extended family of wild life enthusiasts, stands on an acre of land parcel in Tissamaharama, Southern  Sri Lanka, overlooking the famous ?Yala? national park; famed for highest density of Leopards in the world.

© Thilina Wijesiri

Site Plan

The land is bounded by the ?Yala? main access road from one side and a secondary gravel road on the other, and opens out to the sanctuary of thorny scrub jungles, seasonal waterholes frequented by wild elephants, spotted dear and water birds as well as a great expanse of green paddy fields.

© Thilina Wijesiri

Section

The bungalow itself is orientated along North South axis along the length of the land, to a ...