Rumah Gadang is the name of Minangkabau traditional house which is a traditional house in the province of West Sumatra, Indonesia. The word “Gadang” in the Minang language it means big. So no wonder, if the shape manifold houses on stilts that looks great and magnificent. The floor was made of wood. This traditional house has a unique form of architecture with pointed roof peak shape that resembles a water buffalo horn and was 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. while the house body curved ramps like the hull. Body shape ‘Rumah Gadang’ that the enlarged rectangle upwards (inverted trapezoidal) sides curved into or low in the central part, the aesthetic is a dynamic composition.
Rumah Gadang is divided into the two front and rear portion. From the front part of the Rumah Gadang is usually filled with carved ornament and generally patterned roots, flowers, leaves and field rectangular and a parallelogram. While the outside rear hemisphere coated with bamboo. This traditional house are constructed from long poles, This house made a large upward, but not easily fall by the shock, and every element of the Rumah Gadang has a special meaning is backed by the legend that exists in indigenous and local culture. In general, Rumah Gadang has a ladder that lies on the front. Meanwhile, a separate kitchen was built on the back of the house that adjacent to the wall.
On the walls of Rumah Gadang is made from board material, while the back of the bamboo material. Wall board is installed vertically, while all the boards into the wall and be given a carved frame, so the whole wall becomes a full engraving. Placement motifs carved depending on the composition and location of the board on the wall of Rumah Gadang.
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Basically the carvings on the Rumah Gadang is filling the field of decoration in the form of a circular or square lines. Motives are generally propagating plants, roots and leafy, flowering and fruiting. Roots generally circular pattern, the root parallel, interrelated and continue connecting. Branch or twig root curves outward, inward, upward and downward. In addition to the root motive, other motives are found are triangular geometric motifs, four and a parallelogram.
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