EXAMPLE

EXAMPLES

Rumah gadang near Lake Singkarak, West Sumatra,Indonesia

Examples of rumah adat include:

• Batak architecture (North Sumatra) includes the boat-shaped jabu homes of the Toba Batak people, with dominating carved gables and dramatic oversized roof, and are based on an ancientmodel.
• The Minangkabau of West Sumatra build the rumah gadang, distinctive for their multiple gableswith dramatically upsweeping ridge ends.
• The homes of Nias peoples include the omo sebua chiefs' houses built on massive ironwood pillars with towering roofs. Not only are they almost impregnable to attack in former tribal warfare, but flexible nail-less construction provide proven earthquake durability.
• Rumah Melayu Malay traditional houses built on stilts of Sumatra, Borneo and Malay Peninsula.
• The Riau region is characterised by villages built on stilts over waterways.
• Unlike most South East Asian vernacular homes, Javanese joglo are not built on piles, and have become the Indonesian vernacular style most influenced by European architectural elements.
• The Bubungan Tinggi, with their steeply pitched roofs, are the large homes of Banjarese royalty and aristocrats in South Kalimantan.
• Traditional Balinese homes are a collection of individual, largely open structures (including separate structures for the kitchen, sleeping areas, bathing areas and shrine) within a high-walled garden compound.
• The Sasak people of Lombok build lumbung, pile-built bonnet-roofed rice barns, that are often more distinctive and elaborate than their houses (see Sasak architecture).
• Dayak people traditionally live in communal longhouses that are built on piles. The houses can exceed 300 m in length, in some cases forming a whole village.
• The Toraja of the Sulawesi highlands are renowned for their tongkonan, houses built on piles and dwarfed by massive exaggerated-pitch saddle roofs.
• Rumah adat on Sumba have distinctive thatched "high hat" roofs and are wrapped with sheltered verandahs.
• The Papuan Dani traditionally live in small family compounds composed of several circular huts known as honay with thatcheddome roofs.