Minaangkabau Houses: Matrilineal Architecture Analysis
Minangkabau Houses: Matrilineal Architecture Fig. 1: Location Map (Google Map, 2017)
Introduction
Located a Western Sumatra at Padang Panjang (Fig.1), the Minangkabau is commonly recognisable through its jutting buffalo horn roof also known as “rumah bagonjong” (Wiryomartono 2014). The Minangkabau house also known as “Rumah gadang” literally meaning the great house (Wiryomartono 2014), serves as a residence, a hall for family meetings and for ceremonial activities.
According to (Kahin 1999), Minangkabau architecture was influenced by the kingdom of two Maharaja do Raja’s descendent, Datuk Ketemanggungan and his half-brother Datuk Perpatih nan Sebatang. In addition, the brothers proposed to the Javanese to settle the war with a buffalo fight, …show more content…
These understanding of the Koto Piliang model, able to help with this research as for how we can actually see how the architecture helps the Minangkabau culture. In addition, the elevated house from the ground is initially to prevent flooding for the lowland models with higher concrete footing from the ground. Whereas the highland models are located on the higher ground, therefore, not as prominent to flooding as compared to the lowland model still kept the elevated floor but shorter to prevent animals from entering the house or …show more content…
2014) Fig.12 Multi-tiered roof openings on the side (Setiawan, et al. 2014)
With the multi-tier roofing, there are gap inbetween each roof leaving it open a lot of natural ventilation for stack effect to happen. Allowing the heat to escape from the top and naturally cool the space within the building in a tropical climate.
Conclusion
The Minangkabau houses are design through the ritual and religion beliefs that women is the main domain of the housing. Therefore, they spending most of their time inside the house providing them with the organisation architecture could provide to benefit in their daily life activities such as cooking and preparing for meals for lunch, dinner as well as ceremonial activities. Although he tiang tuo is a ritual belief, it helps to create an architectural strategy in organising construction process and spatial arrangement.
Bibliography
Amelia, Serafina. n.d. The Minangkabau. "Difference between Minangkabau In Sumatera and Negeri Sembilan (PART 2). Accessed October 02, 2017.
Introduction
Located a Western Sumatra at Padang Panjang (Fig.1), the Minangkabau is commonly recognisable through its jutting buffalo horn roof also known as “rumah bagonjong” (Wiryomartono 2014). The Minangkabau house also known as “Rumah gadang” literally meaning the great house (Wiryomartono 2014), serves as a residence, a hall for family meetings and for ceremonial activities.
According to (Kahin 1999), Minangkabau architecture was influenced by the kingdom of two Maharaja do Raja’s descendent, Datuk Ketemanggungan and his half-brother Datuk Perpatih nan Sebatang. In addition, the brothers proposed to the Javanese to settle the war with a buffalo fight, …show more content…
These understanding of the Koto Piliang model, able to help with this research as for how we can actually see how the architecture helps the Minangkabau culture. In addition, the elevated house from the ground is initially to prevent flooding for the lowland models with higher concrete footing from the ground. Whereas the highland models are located on the higher ground, therefore, not as prominent to flooding as compared to the lowland model still kept the elevated floor but shorter to prevent animals from entering the house or …show more content…
2014) Fig.12 Multi-tiered roof openings on the side (Setiawan, et al. 2014)
With the multi-tier roofing, there are gap inbetween each roof leaving it open a lot of natural ventilation for stack effect to happen. Allowing the heat to escape from the top and naturally cool the space within the building in a tropical climate.
Conclusion
The Minangkabau houses are design through the ritual and religion beliefs that women is the main domain of the housing. Therefore, they spending most of their time inside the house providing them with the organisation architecture could provide to benefit in their daily life activities such as cooking and preparing for meals for lunch, dinner as well as ceremonial activities. Although he tiang tuo is a ritual belief, it helps to create an architectural strategy in organising construction process and spatial arrangement.
Bibliography
Amelia, Serafina. n.d. The Minangkabau. "Difference between Minangkabau In Sumatera and Negeri Sembilan (PART 2). Accessed October 02, 2017.