Local Wisdom of Structure and Building System Traditional Architecture in Responding to Nature

Abstract

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Traditional architecture was built on a tradition inherited from one generation to the next. As a country which has hundreds of tribes, Indonesia has hundreds of traditional architecture designed by the ancestors to fulfill the function as well as responding to natural context. The aim of this research is to find out how the structural and building system traditional architecture in this country respond its natural conditions as the context. The method used is qualitative descriptive with the analysis of some traditional architecture which have been visited and conducted a theory review. The results showed that the traditional architecture in Indonesia had been designed to respond to nature as context. From the discussion, it can be concluded that traditional architecture in each region has an approach in aligning themselves with nature as context. </span></p><p><span>Keywords: </span><span>Local wisdom, traditional architecture, earthquake, climate, context. </span></p></div></div></div>

The Concept of Local Wisdom on the House Planning Prototype Specially for the State Border Officers in Sanggau Regency

“…Hardwood is generally used for pedestal and a combination of soft or hardwood is used for the upper wall without bearings and is often made of light wood or rumbia. Materials for woven roof is the leaves of palm leaf rumbia, alang-alang, or straw [9]. In every aspect of Dayak tribe life, there has always been based on the belief in the highest ruler who occupies two (2) nature that is the upper and lower realms, and humans are between the two realms.…”