The customer was the owner of a local tire manufacturer. He turned to Ban, who until then had been building housing on the island for the victims of the disastrous 2004 tsunami.
The architect, moving from standard projects to "piece", built a villa for him on the top of a hill near the resort of Weligama. The building was named "Vista", which translated from English means a perspective that opens at the end of the alley or through a certain opening. This is quite true, since the construction decision is based on the "framing" of three spectacular views. The first is a view of the ocean from the jungle-overgrown valley. It is framed by an outer corridor that connects the new villa to the existing house and the roof of the building. The next one is a horizontally elongated panorama of the ocean as viewed from the hill: it is framed by a 22-meter roof span and a floor. The third is a cliff view, especially spectacular at sunset: it is enclosed in a square wooden "frame" with a side of 4 m in the master bedroom.
The roof of the villa is made up of two layers: lightweight concrete panels and braided coconut bark, a popular local material that links the building to its surroundings. The inner surface of the ceiling is covered with teak boards - 80 mm wide and 3 mm thick, forming a wicker pattern.
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