Casa Negombo, a fairytale house in the heart of the town

An amazing Negombo ‘dream house’ inspired by childhood heroes and fairytales is featured on the World Architecture (WA) website.

WA is a portal where thousands of architects, interior designers, students and academics showcase their projects and buildings.

Casa Negombo, which lies in the heart of the town, “a tranquil green area with few old mansions”, is one such.

The client, says WA, was a “sophisticated young man with strong ideas who wanted a home like ‘a magic on the land’ or ‘a living dream’.”

His inspiration was “an untold story of his passionate character; his need of a power-centered place, inspired from his childhood heroes Spartacus, gladiators, Robin Hood and fairy tale castles on the mountain tops”.

Old Rome?

The concept began with “a concept of old Roman and Western empires built on power, strength and mysteries”. 

“The fortified castles and ramparts with gigantic archers and armies stand with arrows bows, spires and swords.

“The legendaries of Spartacus, Coliseum, nomadic kingdoms on river Thebes backed the design.

“The speed and directions of arrows shot and gravity forces in a power centered buildings were become the inspirations for the development of basic form of the house.”

The design concept “was transformed into a tangible form of architecture; a central dome stacked with irregular rubble mass intersected by subtle glazed passages connecting to two cubes was gentrified the home”.