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  2. Architecture of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Rumah Gadang - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Terraced house - Wikipedia

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    East side of the Place des Vosges in Paris, one of the earliest examples of terraced housing. A terrace, terraced house (), or townhouse [a] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls.

  5. Rumah adat - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 5 It is the Indonesian variants of the whole Austronesian architecture found all over places where Austronesian people inhabited from the Pacific to Madagascar each having their own history, culture and style. Ethnic groups in Indonesia are often associated with their own distinctive form of rumah adat. [2]

  6. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, advertisements quote the sizes of the rooms—most importantly, the living room—with measurements in tatami mats (jō (畳) in Japanese), traditional mats woven from rice straw that are standard sizes: 176 by 88 cm (69 by 35 in) in the Tokyo region and 191 cm by 95.5 cm in western Japan. "2DK; one six-tatami Japanese-style room ...

  7. Rumah Melaka - Wikipedia

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    Rumah Melaka (lit. ' Malacca House ') is a gallery owned by the Malaysian Timber Industry Board located in Bukit Katil, Malacca, Malaysia that promotes wooden handmade products of the local people. It was built on an area of 5 hectares with a cost of MYR5 million, as a project in cooperation with the Malacca State Government. [1] [2]

  8. Irama - Wikipedia

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    Irama is the term used for tempo in Indonesian gamelan in Java and Bali. It can be used with elaborating instruments. It can be used with elaborating instruments. It is a concept used in Javanese gamelan music, [ 2 ] describing melodic tempo and relationships in density between the balungan , elaborating instruments , and gong structure . [ 3 ]

  9. Indonesia Raya - Wikipedia

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    Also known as: Indonesia Raja (old spelling): Lyrics: Wage Rudolf Supratman, 1924 National Anthem Committee (led by Sukarno), 1944: Music: Wage Rudolf Supratman, 1924: Adopted: 17 August 1945 (original)