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Rumah limas ("limas house"), also known as rumah bari ("old house"), [1] is a type of traditional house found in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. It can also be found in Baturaja . The house is traditionally made of wood and raised on stilts, with a stepped, or gradated, floor composed of two to five areas at slightly different heights, a ...
Rumah Bubungan Tinggi or Rumah Banjar or Rumah Ba-anjung is an iconic type of house in South Kalimantan. Its name Bubungan Tinggi refers to the steep roof (45 degrees). It is one of the Banjarese House types. [1] In the old kingdom time, this house was the core building within a palace complex, where the King and his family resided.
[1] In the United States, several companies, including Sears Catalog Homes, began offering mail-order kit homes between 1902 and 1910. [2] The Forest Products Laboratory, a division of the U.S. Forest Service, put extensive research into prefabricated homes in the 1930s, including building one for the 1935 Madison Home Show. [3]
A Rumah Gadang serves as a residence, a hall for family meetings, and for ceremonial activities. In the matrilineal Minangkabau society, the Rumah Gadang is owned by the women of the family who live there; ownership is passed from mother to daughter. The houses have a dramatic curved roof structure with multi-tiered, upswept gables.
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warned in a recent advisory about alcohol use increasing cancer risk. The advisory notes that alcohol can increase the risk of throat, liver, esophageal ...
Bayern Munich lost a Bundesliga game for the first time in coach Vincent Kompany's tenure, paying the price for defensive mistakes and the absence of Harry Kane in losing at Mainz 2-1 on Saturday.
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Natural materials – timber, bamboo, thatch, and fibre – make up rumah adat. [5] The traditional house of Nias has post, beam, and lintel construction with flexible nail-less joints, and non-load bearing walls are typical of rumah adat. Traditional dwellings have developed to respond to Indonesia's hot and wet monsoon climate.