ARTS OF TRADITIONAL INDONESIA HOUSE

TRADITIONAL HOUSE OF GADANG-PADANG

At West Sumatera province with capital city Padang they  has also traditional Indonesia house called Gadang House. House just a traditional Minangkabau house. This house just has characteristics that are very distinctive. The form essentially rectangular block that expands upward, line crossing curved and sloping sharply lower with the center. 

Curved roofs are very sharp like a buffalo horns but the curved body and the rumps as the hull. Gadang house as a place to live together, have separate provision. Number of rooms depending of the number of women who life in it. Every woman in the tribe, which has been married to obtain a room. While the old women and children a place in the room near the kitchen. Teen girls earn room together at the other corner.

All parts of Gadang house is a detached room except the bedroom, the inside is divided into long and tapering and space marked by poles. The pole fall in line from forward to the rear and left to the right, while the pole from left to the right mark the space. The number of long and tapering depends on the house, could be two, three or four. Space consist of an odd between three and eleven. 

*TRADITIONAL HOUSE OF TONGKONAN TORAJA

Toraja one of famous tourist destination in Indonesia both locally and abroad. If you ever visit Toraja, the first time that you are inviting appeal of the unique shape of the house building, you will find in almost every yard of the Toraja. This unique building a custom home Toraja society better known as the home Tongkonan. It is said to resemble shape tongkonan Chinese empire boat long time ago. 

In arts of traditional Indonesia house of Toraja there are several signs such as Tongkonan house if there are scratches on the knife knitting red board is a sign of social status building owners. Compounded by a row of mounted buffalo horns hung in front of the house, further adds to the uniqueness of the building made from wood.

There is also means about the name of Toraja house. The name of the building of Tongkonan itself derived from the term Tongkon, which means sitting, before the house was the center of government, the power of traditional and social development of the cultural life of the people Tana Toraja, but make no mistake, this is different from regular house that we ever stay and another house is not owned by individuals but owned for generations by the family or clan tribe Tana Toraja.    

*TRADITIONAL HOUSE OF LIMAS-SOUTH SUMATERA

Traditional custom home from Palembang south Sumatera usually we called Limas, in addition characterized by a pyramid-shaped roof, this traditional home has  terraced floor levels called Bengkilas and only use for the benefit of the family for celebration. Guest usually accepted at terrace or on second floor. 

Most homes pyramid width of 400 to 1000 square feet or more, which was built on the pillars of wood or ironwood unglen powerful. Walls, doors and floors are generally made of wood tembesu, and for used timber frame  exclaimed. Every home especially wall and door were carved. Curently Limas house already seldom to built, because the cost of manufacture is more expensive than regular house.   

*TRADITIONAL HOUSE OF JOGLO-JAVA

Java island as one biggest island in Indonesia has also arts of traditional house we called usually Joglo house. In general, home Joglo only owned by people who are capable of more material. Besides being home Joglo require a lot of material and expensive. Home owners emblem Joglo also a social community. 

Homeowners Joglo in the Java community in general is of the nobility. Joglo architecture prevalent in Central Java. Joglo is frame house from the main building of traditional Javanese house, which consist of four pillar form the main pillars supporting the structure and composition of intercropping in the form of beams support on pillars. 

The room in the house Joglo generally divided into three parts. The first part is called Pendhopo meeting room, the second room is the living room or spaced that used to hold a puppet show, called Pringgitan. The third part is called the back room or Omah Ndalem jero and is used as a family room. In this room there are three senthong (room), namely senthong left, senthong middle, right senthong. That is little information about Joglo arts of traditional house from Java Indonesia

*TRADITIONAL HOUSE HONAI-PAPUA

House of Honai is one  popular traditional house from Papua. Honai house can be a lot we meet in the valley and the mountains in the middle of the island of Papua, there are Dani tribe live  in the valley and the Baliem Wamena tribe of Lani , Yali on Toli mountains and indigenous tribes in Papua. The typical house Papua is circular, made from wood and thatched with straw or reeds. 

One family could have fence some Honai, gathered into one and bounded wooden  fence around it.  Each house inhabited by a man and his wife and their children. The traditional house has a small door and low, and did not have a window air ventilation duct. Contraction so made in order to withstand the cold mountains of Papua. Traditional house structure is composed of two floors. The first floor as a bed and second floor for relaxing, dining, and other family  activities.

The house has high Honai approximately  2.5 meters. Lighting at night using firewood. In the House right in the middle Honai are dug in the ground floor which which serves as a furnace than as a lighting, embers also useful to keep warm. If they do not used sleeping cots or mattress they lined dry grass brought from the garden or farm. Honai house is divided in to three type, namely for men ( Honai ) women ( called Ebei ) and a pigsty ( called Wamai )

*TRADITIONAL HOUSE BALLA-MAKASAR

Balla traditional house is origin from Makasar Sulawesi.

Balla house usually called also houses stage. Houses stage can only be found in a rather far from the hustle of the city. In the language of Makasar, called Balla or Ball home in the Bugis Language.

 Makasar typical house ( as well as Bugis ) shaped house on stilts that stands about 3 feet off the ground. Refuted by wooden poles that lined neatly. Home or Balla rectangular with five pillars to the rear and 5 poles to the side of five and six or more towards the back. 

There are more Arts of Traditional Indonesia house in Indonesia such as Button Sulawesi, Betang Kalimantan, Panggung Manado.