House Tower or home Godang is the name for the traditional Minangkabau house which is the traditional home and many have encountered in the province of West Sumatra , Indonesia . The house is also known by other names by local people with the name Bagonjong home or there is also a mention by name Baanjuang home . [ 1 ] .
Houses with this model also encountered in Negeri Sembilan , Malaysia . But not all the regions in Minangkabau ( darek ) which may be established custom home , only in areas that already have the status of a village 's only House Tower may be established . So also in the area called the shoreline , this traditional house was also formerly nothing was founded by the nomads Minangkabau .
Table of contents
1 Function
2 Architecture
3 Carving
4 The process of making
5 Adoption
6 Symbol
7 Gallery
8 References
FUNCTION
House Tower as a place to live with, their own decisions. Number of rooms depending on the number of women who live in it. Every woman in the clan who has been married to get a room. While the old woman and the children get a place in a room near the kitchen. Space teenage girls stay together at the other end.
All parts in the Tower House is a freelance rooms except the bedrooms. in divided into linear and area marked by a pole. The pole was berbanjar from front to back and from left to right. Pole berbanjar from front to rear linear marks, while the pole from left to right signs space. Total linear depending on the size of the house, could be two, three and four. The room consists of an odd number between three and eleven.
Tower House is usually built on a plot of land owned by the parent family in a tribal / clan hereditary [2] and is only owned and inherited from and to the women at the The [3]. House Tower on the front page usually always two Rangkiang building, used to store grain. House Tower in the wings on the right and left no room (Minang language: anjuang) anjung as a wedding or a coronation biting the head of customs, as it is also called the home of the Tower as a home Baanjuang. Anjung in Koto Piliang kelarasan use crutches, while kelarasan Bodi-Chaniago not on crutches underneath. This fits the philosophy espoused two different groups, the first group adheres to the principle of hierarchy of government crutches wearing upper room, on the second group anjuang as if floating in the air. Not far from the complex Tower House usually also built a surau person who serves as a place of worship, a place of education and also being an unmarried adult male residence
Architecture
This custom home has a unique form of architecture with gabled roof peak shape that resembles a buffalo horn and formerly made of fibers that can hold up to tens of years, [3] but later the roof of the house is a lot of change with tin roofs. Tower House is made rectangular and divided into two Courant, front and rear. The front part of the Tower House is usually filled with carved ornaments and generally patterned roots, flowers, leaves and rectangles and parallelograms field [1]. While the outside of the back is coated with a slit bamboo. This traditional house built from long poles, building a home made big upward, but not easily fall by the shock [1], and every element of the Tower House has its own meaning which is backed by a legend in custom and culture of the local community.
In general, the Tower House has a staircase that is located on the front. While the kitchen is made at the rear of the house which didempet on the wall.
Because the Minangkabau region prone to earthquakes since the former because it is located in the Bukit Barisan mountains, the architecture of the Tower House also takes into account the design of earthquake-resistant. The whole mast House Tower is not implanted into the ground, but relies on a flat stone to a strong and wide. The whole connection of each meeting and rafter poles (rafters) do not wear spikes, but wear pegs are also made of wood. When the earthquake struck the Tower House will move flexibly like dancing on a flat stone or pillar stand point milestone. Similarly, any connections that are connected by wooden pegs also move flexibly, so that the House Tower built correctly will be resistant to earthquakes.
Variety Minangkabau carved on the outer wall of the Tower House
Carving
On the walls of the Tower House made from board material, while the back of the bamboo material. Wallboard installed vertically, while all the boards into the wall and into a carved frame, so that the entire wall be carved. Placement of engraving motifs depending on the composition and layout of boards on the walls of the Tower House.
Basically engraving on the Tower House is a decorative filler field in the form of a circle or a square. Motive is generally vines, roots leafy, flowering and fruiting. Patterns generally rounded root, root berjajaran, cheek by jowl, intertwine and also continued to connect. Branches or twigs roots have curves outward, inward, upward and downward.
Besides the root motive, another motive is encountered triangular geometric motifs, four and a parallelogram. Motif leaves, flowers or fruit can also be engraved on its own or in berjajaran.
Making process
According to tradition, the main pillar of the Tower House called tuo milestones totaling four / rod removed from forests in mutual cooperation by the village children, especially the relatives, and involving dozens of people. Felled tree trunks usually is Juha old tree and straight with a diameter of between 40cm to 60cm. Juha tree known hard and strong. After it was brought into the village the tree was not directly used, but soaked first in the pool belongs to the large family or for years.
After sufficient time tree trunk is removed or dibangkit to be used as a milestone tuo. The procession of lifting / arouse the tree is also known as stem mambangkik Tarandam (evoke trees soaked), then the process of construction of the Tower House procession continues to the next, establishing milestones tuo or four of the main mast, which is seen as upholding the greatness.
The House of the Five Senses in the Netherlands who adopted Minangkabau House Tower design.
Malaysia Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, which adopted the design of the Tower House Negeri Sembilan.
Tree trunk that has been soaked for years then become very hard and can not be eaten by termites, so that it can survive as a milestone tuo or main pillar for hundreds of years. Immersion trees which will be a milestone tuo over the years is one of the keys that make traditional Tower House can last hundreds of years across the age.
Adoption
The uniqueness of the Tower House roof forms a curved and tapered, have inspired some architects in other parts of the country, such as Ton van de Ven in the Netherlands were to adopt the design House Tower on the building of The House of the Five Senses. Buildings operated since 1996 it was used as the main gateway of Amusement Efteling. [4] as high as 52 meters and a building area of 4500 square meters of the roof of a building constructed of wood with thatched roofs world according to the Guinness Book of Records.
Design House Tower which is widely available in Negeri Sembilan also adopted at the Malaysian pavilion building at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 held in Shanghai, China in 2010. [5] [6]
Symbol
Gonjong (curved roof section and taper) House Tower became a symbol or an icon for the Minangkabau society alongside other icons, such as the black-red-yellow gold, rendang, and more. Almost all government offices in West Sumatra wear designs gonjongnya House Tower with roof, although constructed permanently with cement and stone. Gonjong icon is also used at the front of the Paris restaurant which exist in various places outside of West Sumatra. Logos Minang community institutions or associations are also many who use icons gonjong with all its variations.
Panyengker coral / boundary wall of the house ;
