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The external walls of a rumah gadang are covered with motifs, each having a symbolic meaning. A communal rumah gadang is a long house, rectangular in plan, with multiple gables and upsweeping ridges, forming buffalo horn-like ends. They normally have three-tiered projections, each with varying floor levels.
A rumah gadang serves as a residence, a hall for family meetings, and for ceremonial activities. With the Minangkabau society being matrilineal, the rumah gadang is owned by the women of the family who live there - ownership is passed from mother to daughter. The houses have dramatic curved roof structure with multi-tired, upswept gables.
Rumah gadang in the Pandai Sikek village of West Sumatra, with two rice barns (rangkiang) in front. Rumah gadang (Minangkabau: 'big house') or rumah bagonjong (Minangkabau: 'spired roof house') are the traditional homes of the Minangkabau. The architecture, construction, internal and external decoration, and the functions of the house reflect ...
The traditional house of the Minangkabau people, is called Rumah Gadang. The rumah Gadang is usually built on a plot of land belonging to the parent family in the tribe and people from generation to generation. [7] Not far from the rumah gadang complex is usually also built a surau that functions as a place of worship and a place of
The Minangkabau of West Sumatra build the Rumah Gadang, distinctive for their multiple gables with 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 ...
Rumah Gadang of the Minangkabau; Rumoh Aceh, the traditional vernacular houses of Aceh; Rumah Melayu, the traditional home of the ethnic Malays from the east coast of Sumatra (Palembang, Jambi, Bengkulu, Riau, Riau archipelago, eastern North Sumatera and Aceh Tamiang Regency) Traditional architecture of Enggano; Nua, the traditional houses of ...
A balairung has the same form as a rumah gadang, employing a dramatic curved roof structure with multi-tiered, upswept gables. Similar to the rumah gadang, balairung is designed as a raised stage house, supported by posts. [3] and its walls (if they exist) are similarly decorated with carvings of painted floral patterns.
Rumah means "house" or "home" both in the Indonesian language and Bahasa Melayu. It may also refer to: Rumah Gadang, the traditional house of Minangkabau people, Indonesia; Rumah Lanting, the traditional house of Kalimantan, Indonesia; Rumah, Riyadh, a governorate and city in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia; Rumah, a weekly Indonesian house tabloid