Tower House or Houses 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. This house is also known by other names by local people with the name Home Bagonjong or there is also a mention by name Home Baanjuang.
House with this model is also often found in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. However, not all regions of the 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 also formerly no established by the nomads Minangkabau.
Function
House Tower as a place to live together, have separate provisions. Number of rooms depends on the number of women who live in it. Every woman in the people who have been married to obtain a room. While older women and children get a place in a room near the kitchen. Teenage girls gain room together at the other end.
All parts in the Tower House is a freelance room except the bedroom. The inside is divided into linear and space marked by poles. The pole was berbanjar from front to back and from left to right. Berbanjar pole from front to rear marking linear, whereas the pole from left to right marks the space. Total linear rely on large houses, can be two, three and four. Space is composed of an odd number between three and eleven.
Tower House is usually built on a plot of land owned by parent families in tribal / clan is hereditary [2] and only owned and inherited from and to the women at the [3]. Tower House front yard is usually always there are two buildings Rangkiang, used to store grain. House Tower on a wing of the building right and left upper rooms there is space (Minang language: anjuang) as a bride biting or the coronation of the head of customs, as it is also called the Tower houses as home Baanjuang. Anjung on kelarasan Bodi-Chaniago not wear crutches underneath, while the Koto-Piliang kelarasan wearing crutches. This is consistent philosophy espoused these two different groups, one group adheres to the principle of government hierarchy using the upper rooms put on crutches, the other group anjuang as if floating in the air. Not far from the complex of Tower House is usually also built a mosque which serves as the place of worship, a place of education and also live at the adult males of the people who are not married.
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 decades [3] but lately many roofs replaced with tin roofs.
Tower House is made rectangular and divided into two front and rear portion. From the front part of the Tower House is usually filled with carved ornaments and generally patterned roots, flowers, leaves and rectangular and parallelogram field [1]. While the outside of the back is coated with a slit bamboo. This traditional houses built from long poles, building great home made up, but not easily fall by the shock [1], and every element of the Tower House has its own meaning is backed by a legend that exists in local customs and culture.
In general, the Tower House has a staircase that is located on the front. While the kitchen is built separately on the back of the house which didempet on the wall.
Carving
On the walls of the Tower House is made from board material, while the back of bamboo. Wallboard is installed vertically, while all boards into the wall and into a carved frame, so that the entire wall into a full carving. Placement motif depends on the composition and location of the board on the wall of the Tower House.
Basically engraving on Tower House is a decorative filler field in the form of a circle or square. Motive is generally vines, roots, leafy, flowering and fruiting. Usually circular pattern 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, other motives are encountered triangular geometric motifs, four and a parallelogram. Motif leaves, flowers or fruit can also be engraved on its own or in berjajaran.
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