Vernacular Architecture as a Representation of Nature, Self, Culture, and Society: Insights from Sumba-Timor-Flores

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10.2991/assehr.k.210805.237How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Vernacular Architecture, Praigoli Village-Sumba Island, Kowa Village-Timor Island, Bena Village-Flores Island

Abstract

The built environment contains meaning that reflects the values chosen, determined, and owned by the community. Ethnic and cultural identities in developing countries, including Southeast Asian Countries, are the focus of debate in the rapidly developing research literature of late. Vernacular Architecture is a quite interesting topic in the 21st-century era. This study aims to explore the basic concepts of vernacular architecture as a representation of nature, self, culture, and society among three case studies, namely: Praigoli Village-Sumba Island, Kowa Village-Timor Island, Bena Village-Flores Island were selected based on the similarity of natural and cultural background. The analysis is carried out exploratively in three phases. First by exploration of vernacular architectural concepts through literature review. Second by exploration the basic concepts of vernacular architecture as a representation of nature, self, culture, and society through the sharp reading of architectural artifact phenomena, the cultural behavior of the community, and the condition of the natural environment around three case studies. Third by describing the relationship among three cases vernacular architecture as a representation of nature, self, culture, and society. Based on the results of the study, it is known that each community responds to its natural characteristics which tend to be barren and the air temperature tends to be hot with good spatial planning, material, and construction systems. Factors of nature, self, culture, and society become the circle of life in vernacular architecture, where everything is like a chain that is interrelated and does not stand alone.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nafiah Solikhah
AU  - Adolfo Freitas Bere
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - Vernacular Architecture as a Representation of Nature, Self, Culture, and Society: Insights from Sumba-Timor-Flores
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1502
EP  - 1509
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.237
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.237
ID  - Solikhah2021
ER  -