Whenever we travel to Indonesia, we make a point of checking out the local vernacular. Here we've got updated Batak Toba houses in Toba, Sumatra complete with TV room extension! Indonesia has extraordinary variations in house types and village planning depending on region, local climate, topography, locally available materials and cultural background. Crinkly tin is replacing traditional materials but the formal language and cosmological ordering of layout and orientation of these buildings remain the same.
Traditional building types are modified to accommodate changing lifestyles and different technologies.
The traditional version with a roof made of ijuk (palm fibre) which is being slowly reappropriated by nature.
More pics here and here
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