desirePlate 214 · Dambulla, Sri Lanka

Sigiriya

A palace on a rock, with frescoes of women and a staircase of lion's paws.

5th c. · King Kashyapa · Asia

The chamber score

Pirith chant

Sri Lankan Buddhist · Sinhala

A fortress-mirror on a rock. Chant as a cooling of the climb.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO lion rock, among the most extraordinary citadels in Asia.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Sigiriya through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Sigiriya was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.