* Malay Tradition *

Traditional Malay House

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The Traditional Malay house is one of the richest components of Malaysia’s cultural heritage. Designed and built by the villagers themselves, it manifests the creative and aesthetic skills of the Malays. This is a near-perfect house form which is appropriate to local climatic conditions. It expresses the way of life of its inhabitants. The house is well designed to suit the Malaysia’s weather. It is also designed for many functional use of space and caters to the different needs of the users. It has an addition system which allows the house to be extended for the future due to the growing needs of the family.

When you travel through the country side, you will see a lot of Malaysian houses and villages. These villages are called "Kampongs" in Bahasa Malaysia. Notice that they are built with stilts below and they have large windows. This is mainly to keep the building cool and the stilts elevate the building to keep them away from floods.

Traditional house Sarawak. (RUMAH PANJANG)

Whereas peninsular Malays have single extended-family houses, many of the Borneo people built rumah panjang or 'long-houses' hosting many families, each in its own 'apartment' with a common wide veranda linking the front.

Traditional architectural forms, such as tropically-suited roofs and harmonious proportions with decorative elements are considered by traditionalists to still have relevance. However traditional buildings require significant maintenance compared to modern construction.

Using renewable natural materials including timber and bamboo, the dwellings are often built without the use of metal including nails. Instead pre-cut holes and grooves are used to fit the timber elements into one another, effectively making it a ‘prefabricated house’. In Sarawak and Sabah rattan ropes were used to fasten bamboo pieces together.

Although nails had been invented and in later houses used minimally for non-structural elements (for example, windows or panels), structural flexibility was a benefit which nailing inhibited. Without nails, a timber house could be dismantled and reconstructed in a new location.

  Traditional house Malacca

When we mention about Malacca, A Famosa, red building fully equipped Stadhuys clock tower, Fort St. John, the Malacca Sultanate relation to the mill and the Independence Memorial Pengiystiharan certainly be the choice for visitors while on holiday in this historic state.

But do we ever would have thought that there are other peculiarities in the state of Malacca? For example, Villa Sentosa which is a house located in Kampong Morten, who was the only Malay village situated in the heart of Malacca.

Built in the first quarter of the 20th century with a contemporary design style, the house was later used as a private museum by its owner, Dato Haji Hashim Haji Demang Abdul Ghani. Villa Sentosa was surrounded by traditional Malay houses are unique and decorated by a variety of landscapes and decorative colorful lights.

Traditional house Kelantan

In Kelantan there are 2 types of traditional Malay house is known as House and Home Single Pole 12. These houses consist of 12 main pillars in the mother house, 6 and 6 arches long pole. Long roof angle where the side walls are fitted with curtain screen. At the edge of the mast scenes there pemeleh or fascias boards of a mother and a pair pemeleh pemeleh porch.

Column 12 of the original house there are 3 unit building which houses the principal building containing Selasar space, home center and home kitchens. Building houses many central and room kitchen house or block.

Traditional house Kedah

Meleh board pattern on a waqf in Kulim, Kedah. It is arranged vertically on the bottom of the screen in the form of tibar sunrise. Series pole is custom columns. And serves as a key pillar erected before other columns. Direct Punch carvings found in traditional houses Cambodia Hill, Memorandum, Langkawi. Ladder with rungs system using mortise and nails made of round logs and core. The walls of woven bamboo with a simple and uncluttered.

               Carving patterns are also divided into several types, namely common pattern, perforation pattern and engraved. Motifs used in these patterns have some specific meaning and nothing to do with the spiritual. In Malaya, carving motifs are more likely to art appreciation based on Islamic principles and some are oriented plants, geometry and calligraphy.

Traditional house Terengganu (RUMAH LIMAS BUNGKUS)

Rumah Limas Bungkus is said to have originated from the Dutch and the British. This type of architecture was first introduced to the Riau Islands around the 17th century to the 19th. In the 19th century, it was built in the state.

Special features of this type of house are the use of a straight horizontal roof and four trunk ridges trickling down to the roof. These houses use decorative wall and casing type’s widow and decorated with sculptures. It is quite popular among the kings and nobles. In Terengganu, there are three castles that use this design the Palace and the Palace of Anjang Tengku Tengku Long in Besut and Kuala Terengganu Palace Pool.

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J Actually, much more historically traditional houses.

But this is only just that I can afford.

Thanks for reading this entry. Salam Ramadan. J