Analytical study of changing characteristics on built environment of the contemporary urban buddhist monastic architecture

Abstract

The Buddhist monasteries in urban context are the places that express Buddhist philosophy in symbolic way. Thus these places needed particular work of architecture to achieve its reality while conveying its message of philosophy to the human being. So, there are several concepts, spatial characteristics of built environment, planning arrangements found in Buddhist monasteries are used to achieve that the Buddhist philosophy in architectural built forms. Those architectural concepts use to express the meaning of Buddhist philosophy in to the humans mind through the built environment./ So the Buddhist built environment is came in to being as outcome of several concepts and spatial characteristics of built environment. Those concepts lay out panning, built forms and spatial characteristics of built environment are stressed need of appropriate environmental qualities. Due to the unavoidable urbanization and scarcity of lands of the urban settlements create more restrictions while following these concepts and spatial characteristics to create Buddhist monasteries. There considering in urban setting of Colombo and its suburbs. Deviations are happened according to the religious philosophy while generating new built environment. But there still followed the same architectural principles and concepts.