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Minangkabau Traditional House
Minangkabau traditional house known as the House of the Tower, but often people call it home bagonjong. Named After The House Tower because of its size is larger than the ordinary House.Named after the House bagonjong because its roof bergonjong-gonjong. People who come from one content up to the third offspring in theory can be accommodated in one House gadang.


Those who live in the House it is women and boys who have not been coming balig. The adult male of his house pambujang and after Islam lived in the surau. The husband of the woman just stay there at night. In charge of one of the occupying this House is tungganai or mamak.Custom House Tower as the House because that's where ceremonies take place.


For example, the coronation of the power of the title datuk, a place to discuss the problems of the deliberation, organizing the event birth, death, and marriage.Home gadang as places to stay have size depending the number of occupants in the House. The number of his room typically odd, such as 5, 7, 9, and even more. Comparison of bedrooms with common room is 1/3 to the bedroom and 2/3 for the public interest.


The meaning of the comparison showed that the public interest more take precedence of personal interests.The shape of a house-shaped ship, where the Tower body House expands to the top. Home gadang is the home of the stage supported by a pole up to kolongnya as high as adults. The pillar is made of a wooden octagonal and enforced on the rock joints in order not easily over time. The size of the loss of the space under the House.


Wake up to the roof of the House. So, the higher the House the greater size. Ladder entrance is in the middle and is a front porch. The number of children tangganya usually odd-could be 5, 7, or 9. There are also made at the end of the ladder is the entrance to the kitchen.Between the columns with horizontal beams and transverse associated with rasuk pelancar.


Rasuk transverse through sculpture on the mast, the material is his trunks of coconut or hard wood forest. Pahatannya about 2 m from the base or joints. A carved pole which is the same height on each pillar is carved to rasuk pelancar. Rasuk transverse buttressed with his equally thick with transverse to about high rasuk sculpture rasuk pelancar.The length and width of the House determined to anchor (line) and the usual made size is hasta or fathoms. Width space or labuh (the distance between the Poles according to width and length) about 2.5 m to 4 m Long House at least 3 spaces and even to 21 space, normal 3, 7.9 space. While the width is at least 3 lines and as many 4 lanes.


Line or labuh extends home. The first line of the face called bandua. The second line is called the labuah gajah. The third is called the labuah tangah. The fourth is called biliak. The room is located on the home according to the width of the House. One room in the Center is named after gajah maharam. Two spaces on the left called sarambi papek and two spaces on the right called King is. On the left and right there is a bridge that consists of two or three levels.Anjung is the stairs located at the middle of the width of the House.The front wall was filled with carved with motifs of roots, flowers, leaves, as well as areas of quadrangular and parallelogram. The floor is made of wood or bamboo bilahan.


Often this custom built home on the page are not lined up with. It is adjusted according to the direction of the wind, so that its width field is not cut off the wind.The roof of a house made of straw are arranged above the curved hood on paran. Kapnya created berpucuk (bagonjong), the number of least four fruit that splits the long House. On the right and left the room there is also a House so that there is additional gonjong six. One more gonjong in the Middle above the porch which blends with the gonjong ladder.Alam Minangkabau tectonics, wake up the House raised up in order not easily fall by the shake-up. So that the occupant is not kegerahan with the eve of the equator, the House was built on top of the mast is high. Thus, the wind can enter from below the floor. Roofs fitted in layers and steep so as not to absorb rainwater.


On the home page contained rangkiang or barns. The shape of the building is aligned with the Custom House. There are three kinds of rangkiang. The Rangkiang bayau-bayau is large with six pole rangkiang buffer to store Rice eaten everyday. The Rangkiang hungry to save rice paced time famine. The Rangkiang review sea to save the rice will be exchanged for merchandise trade.