Kandalama Hotel建在斯里兰卡丹布拉郊区。这家酒店是由Aitken Spence酒店集团委托Geoffrey Bawa建造的，用于接待参观附近城市西吉里亚的游客。尽管Aitken Spence原本打算将酒店建在西吉里亚附近，但Geoffrey Bawa坚持将酒店选址在历史悠久的城市和岩层东南11公里处。额外的距离既保护了文化遗址的周边环境，也可以从Kandahar湖的地平线上欣赏到纪念碑如画的景色。

Kandalama Hotel was built in the suburb of Dambura, Sri Lanka. The hotel was commissioned by the Aitken Spence hotel group to accommodate tourists visiting the nearby city of Siguria. Although Aitken Spence had originally planned to build the hotel in the vicinity of Sigiria, Geoffrey Bawa insisted on a site 11km southeast of the historic city and rock formations. The extra distance both protects the surrounding environment of the cultural site and allows for picturesque views of the monument from the horizon of Kandahar Lake.

主入口大厅位于一条2.7公里长的坡道私人道路的末端，该道路从一条通往市中心的次要干道向北延伸。从项目最早的开发阶段开始，Bawa就有兴趣开发一个空间和视觉上的进入顺序，最终在进入酒店大堂后才揭示出西吉里耶古迹的远景。

The main entrance lobby is located at the end of a ramped 2.7-kilometer-long private road that branches north from a secondary arterial leading back to the center of town. From the earliest development phase of the project, Bawa was interested in developing a spatial and visual sequence of entry that culminated in the revelation of the distant view of the monument of Sigiriya only after entry to the hotel lobby.

酒店设计中最美丽的特征之一是紧靠悬崖西侧的大型洞穴式门廊，酒店就环绕在悬崖上。客人在这个巨大的斜面天棚下进入酒店，天棚向入口处倾斜，是一条压缩的封闭式走道。

One of the most beautiful features of the hotel's design is the large, cave-like porte cochere abutting the western side of the cliff around which the hotel wraps. Guests enter the hotel under this huge slanted canopy that angles down towards the entrance to a compressed, enclosed walkway.

游客蜿蜒穿过密闭的隧道式通道，里面有一堵由巨石砌成的墙，突然发现露天大厅的自由宽广和它向北俯瞰Kandalama Tank的全景。Bawa深思熟虑地编排了这个到达的过程，以延长有树木遮挡的入口车道和酒店大堂巧妙地框住的壮观景色之间的门槛。

The visitor winds through the confined tunnel-like passage, complete with a wall lined by boulders, suddenly discovering the liberating expansiveness of the open-air lobby and its panoramic view northward over the Kandalama Tank. Bawa thoughtfully choreographed this process of arrival in order to prolong and dramatize the threshold between the tree-shielded entrance drive and the spectacular views that the hotel lobby skillfully frames.

Architect:GeoffreyBawa（1919-2003）

Words:倩倩