Sri Lanka

Issue 006 of Domus Sri Lanka features a house by Tadao Ando in the southern coast of Sri Lanka that tests the boundaries of local skill and technology in building primarily with exposed concrete.

Conversely is a house by Russell Dandeniya designed with particular emphasis on sustainable building practices, improvising with a considerable amount of recycled material. This issue also features the creative process adopted by a German designer who seeks to give order to the project’s elements and create beauty through intelligence, simplicity of function and quality of construction, and another that looks at the design of surfaces by connecting warp and weft, which gives infinite variables in technique, shape and colour. Projects include architect Valerio Olgiati’s own house constructed entirely of reddish concrete and lies immersed in nature conveying strength and inhabitability.