The Genius Idea of Using Local Material on Javanese House Architecture

Hardiyati Hardiyati; Josef Prijotomo; Murni Rachmawati

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.747.28

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The Genius Idea of Using Local Material on Javanese House Architecture

Abstract:

Using the local materials will contribute to the main substance in formingthe architecture, in creating the circumstances and in giving the texture. To understand how to use the material effectively, the building expert must have an understanding of local materialscharacteristicthat have been used historically by the consciousness of innovation in the use of the material itself, thus the design approach is easy to develop. Javanesepeople have a genius idea in the use of materials to make their houses, It shows the level of knowledge in the use of materials that have become part of the values, norms in the community that have been institutionalized. Genius idea itself expressed in the use of the local material has been representing the expression of sense, intelligence thoughts, ideas, anddream. The points that are responses to the human need for shelter, the surrounding natural environment, socio-cultural, belief in God are able to transfer the subjective knowledge of the skilled building worker and society to the next generation The method used in this research was qualitative research. The purposes of this study were to determine and discover the genius idea of the local materials used in the architecture of Jawanese houses. Keywords: Javanese house,local material, genius idea .