The Lunuganga estate is located two hours' drive south of Colombo, The capital of Sri Lanka, where Geoffrey Bawa lived at The time. The estate was originally a Dutch Cinnamon Estate, which later became a rubber farm. Set on approximately 15 acres of land, Geoffrey Bawa's weekend venue is not only planted with quifa trees, water gardens, rice paddies, and Greek sculptures, but has a range of living areas, all sitting areas, courtyards, balconies, and views positioned over the lake and gardens.

Bawa used the large material fields of heaven and earth to build his small garden. His materials included ready-made mounds, rice paddies, avocado and sorrel trees, old houses and broken walls on the base, 17th century colonnades, fragments of statues brought back from Italy, as well as stone urns and frescoes hand-made by sculptor friends, and large Chinese water tanks left in the countryside during the Portuguese colonial period.

Bawa's work is the work of all garden makers throughout history, that is, to tidy up the mountain and manage the water. Over the course of nearly half a century, Bawa removed much of the rubber forest, tore down the walls of the original house, changed the direction of the entrance, extended the space under the porch, built an observation deck, leveled the site, built a bridge, hid the village road under the vegetation, and cut the slope down to welcome the pinnacles on the lake island into view.