The origin of the Gadang House

Gadang House or Houses Godang is the name for the traditional Minangkabau house which is the traditional home and many encountered in the province of West Sumatra, Indonesia. The house has a large sieve characteristics are very typical. The form is essentially a rectangular beam which expands upward. Melintangnya sharp curved lines and ramps in the middle of the lower. Curved roof of his house is very sharp like buffalo horns, while the curved body and a house boat ramps like bodies. Roof made of palm fiber. Form a curved roof and pointed upward is called gonjong.

Because the roof is formed gonjong, then the house is also called home bagonjong gadang. The house is also called by other names by the local people with the name House Bagonjong or there is also a mention by name Baanjung House. Homes with this model were also encountered in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. However, not all regions of the Minangkabau (Darek) are allowed to set up custom homes, only in areas that already have status as the Tower House is villages only be founded. So also in the area called the shoreline, this custom home also was once no one was established by the nomads Minangkabau.

The origin of the house gadang

Gadang which forms the roof like a buffalo horn is often associated with stories Tambo Minangkabau Alam. The story about the triumph of Minang people in the event of a buffalo fights against the Javanese.

The forms resemble buffalo horns are very commonly used Minangkabau people, either as symbol or the jewelry. One of them in traditional dress, which is tingkuluak tanduak (tengkuluk horn) to Bundo Kanduang.

The origins of the house gadang also often associated with travel stories Minangkabau ancestors. The legend says that a body resembling a Minangkabau house gadang bodies mimic the shape of the boat is a boat Minangkabau ancestors in ancient times. Boat ancestor is known as presumptuous.

According to the story, sassy ancestors originally sailed upstream Batang Kampar. After arriving in an area, the passengers and crew went ashore. This sassy also drawn to the ground so as not to rot by the river water.

Lancang then supported by the timber to stand firmly. Then, it was roofed with a sassy screen hanging on a rope tied to the pole is presumptuous. Furthermore, because the screen that hangs so heavy, the strings form a curve that resembles gonjong. Sassy is a place for temporary shelter. Next, the passenger boat to make homes that resemble those presumptuous. Once the ancestors of the Minangkabau of this spread, the shape of impudence which bergonjong continue serve as the hallmark of their homes. Given these characteristics, among them even his descendants became easier to recognize each other. They will easily find out that the house had belonged to their relatives gonjong originating from the same impudent landed on the edge of Batang Kampar.

Function

Tower House as a place to live together, have separate provisions. Number of rooms depends on the number of women who live in it. Each of these women who already had husbands to obtain a room. While the old woman and the children get a place in a room near the kitchen. Teenage girls get a shared room at the other end.

All parts of the Tower House is a room off except the bedroom. The inside is divided into long and tapering and the space is marked by poles. The pole was berbanjar from the face to the rear and from left to right. Berbanjar pole marks from front to back long and tapering, while the pole from left to right mark the space. Long and tapering depends on the number of homes, could be two, three and four. Space consists of an odd number between three and eleven.

Tower House is usually built on a parcel of land owned by parent families in the tribe / people are hereditary and are owned and inherited only from and to the women on it. Tower House front yard is usually always there are two buildings Rangkiang, used to store grain. Tower House on the right wing and left the building there is space anjung (Bahasa Minang: anjuang) as a wedding or a coronation biting peoples heads, because it is also called as the Tower houses the home Baanjuang. Anjung on Bodi-Chaniago kelarasan not use crutches underneath, whereas in Koto-Piliang kelarasan wore a crutch. This fits the philosophy adopted by the two parties are different, one of the group adhere to the principle of government hierarchy using anjung who use crutches, the other group anjuang as if floating on air. Not far from the complex Tower House is usually also built a mosque that serves as a place of worship, places of education and also live at the adult men are unmarried.

Architecture

This traditional house has a unique form of architecture with pointed roof peak shape that resembles a buffalo horn and formerly made of fibers that can hold up to tens of years but later the roof of this house is much changed 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 ornament and generally patterned roots, flowers, leaves and the fields of rectangular and parallelogram [1]. While the outside is coated with a slit behind the bamboo. Traditional houses are scouted from long poles, building big houses built up, but not easily fall by the shocks, and every element of the Tower House has its own meanings that are backed by a legend in the customs and culture of local communities.

In general, Tower House has a ladder that lies on the front. While a kitchen built separately on the back of the house didempet on the wall.

Engraving

On the wall of Tower House is made of a material board, while the back of the bamboo material. Wallboard is installed vertically, while all the boards into the wall and be given a carved frame, so the entire wall to be carved. Placement motif carving depends on the composition and location of the board on the wall of Tower House.

Basically carvings on the Tower House is a decorative filler fields in the form of a circle or square. His motive is generally vines, roots leafy, flowering and fruiting. Roots generally circular pattern, the root berjajaran, coincide, interwoven, and also connect connect. Branch or twig roots have curves outward, inward, upward and downward.

In addition to the root motive, other motives are encountered motif triangular geometry, four and a parallelogram. Motifs of leaves, flowers or fruit can also carved its own or in berjajaran.

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