A second pavilion contains guest bedroom and the office verandah. The pavilions between them define the main courtyard. The idea for the main courtyard. The idea for the main pavilion, with its clearly expressed structure , steeply sloping roofs and articulated volumes, was inspired by the pioneering modernist houses which Ulrik Plesner built in Colombo during the early 1960s (Pleaser 1971) and which Anjalendran had visited as a student.