Throughout his career, Bawa experimented with spatial arrangements based on
the play between a series of courtyards in subsequent projects. In one of his first
significant major buildings, the Bentota Beach Hotel (figure 2.49), Bawa arranged the
hotel on the basis of an organization of a large rectangular courtyard.41 At the same
time as he working on the up-scale Bentota Beach hotel, Bawa and the ER&B firm also
worked on a budget hotel located next to the Bentota Beach Hotel, that is, the Serendib
Hotel