MINANGKABAU / RUMAH GADANG

 

Rumah Gadang isthe traditional house of Minangkabau

Background and Characteristics

~ All of the construction, architecture, internal and external decoration and the function of the house is reflected with the cultures and values of the Minangkabau

~This house is serve as a residence and as a hall for family meeting and activities of ceremonial.

~The arrangement of the rooms inside the house is seen as a reflection of a woman's life pattern.

~ Long house with a rectangular plan. 

~ Have tiered projections each of it varying floor levels.

~Largely constructed by wood

Elements of Rumah Gadang ;

~ Gonjong - hornlike roof structure

~Singkok - triangular wall under the ends of gonjong

~Pereng - shelf under the singkok

~Anjuang - raised floor at the end of one style of rumah gadang

~ Dindiang ari - the walls on the side elevations

~ Dindiang tapi - the walls on the front and back elevations

~ Papan banyak - front facade

~ Papan sakapiang - a shelf middle band on the periphery of the house

~ Salangko - wall enclosing space under a house that has been built on stilts

ROOF STRUCTURE

~it havea curved roof structure with a multi-tiered and upswept gables.

~the upward-curved finials which is known as gonjong on the peaks of teh roof, said to represent buffalo horns, represented reaching to heaven.

~covered with thatch from the fiber of the sugar palm (ijuk) which is known as the toughest thatch material available and is said to last a hundred years

~Buffalo horns ( from an illusions to a legend concerning a battle between two water buffaloes from which the 'Minangkabau' name is thought to have been derived)

~Many small battens and rafters is built uo for the roof peaks

BOROBUDUR TEMPLE

Location 

~In Yogyakarta. Located in an elevated area between 2 volcanoes ;

~Sundoro-Sumbing and Merbabu-Merapi 

and the two rivers;

-Progo and Elo

Background of Borobudur Temple

~ One of the greatest monuments found in the world

~ It is also the biggest buddhist temple in the 9th Century

~ Built by KIng Samaratungga, one of the kings of Old Mataram Kingdom.

~ The construction of this temple has been estimated to be done around 75 years to be completed

 

The Architectural Styles ;

~ Buikt by a single large stupa. As you can see in this picture below, it is viewed from above of the temple, it takes the form of a giant tantric Buddhist mandala.

~ Foundation - Square

~ Has 9 platforms ;

* Lower six platform are square

*Upper three platform are circular

~ The large central of stupa is surrounded by 72 small stupa.

~ Each of the stupa is in a bell-shaped and pierced with various decorative opening.

~ Currently built on a natural hill

~ Technique of the design same as other temples in Java, such as

*no inner space as in other temples

*general design similar to the shape of the pyramid.

TRIANGGA

~ triangga is actually a division space or area in the designing the traditional Bali of ‘arsitektur’

~ there are 3 main space division ,

1)      Main , a space for a higher place or position of a person / the leader , ie;  king, or a place for king. Include a luxury villa.

2)      Madya , at the center, allocated for  a standard villa building  and for public. Ie; main swimming pool

3)      Nista , the lowest part , allocated for a building which function as services and as welcoming the guest. Most of it are area for executive counselor, receptionist, carvemen. Service space,  ie; kitchen and other building that function as a service.

I , Me , Myself

18 January 1991, the date where I was born in Johor. 15 years in Johor, then ,my family plan to moved to Kuala Lumpur. Really missed johor, so many sweet memory that I had in there.

Currently stay at bdr sri damansara, kuala lumpur for about more than 4 years I guess. The youngest from 6 siblings. Very closed to her family so much. Whenever I go, my mom and sister always company me. Slightly different in here (Perak) , a place where I should learn myself bein away with them :’( . failed to blend it at first time, but as time goes by, and now im in the third sem in here (UITM) , I can blend it slowly. Learning in architecture’s course make my family proud of me, but its actually not quite an easy course for me. Ya, of course whatever subject we study, we need a lot of work , effort and passion on doing it. Same as architecture, we need more and more effort and passion in designing ‘something’.

Im  a kind of person hard to be mad at people. Sometime if I mad with someone, I will talk alone with myself, crying without no one knows. I loved to kept secret rather than sharing with others.