Houses

Stay home with this simple design in a lot of breath and have a traditional community spirit island Gods. Spatial concepts, the building unit, and the hierarchy of space is one of the main house with a typical Balinese architecture.

Speaking about Balinese house there are at least 3 types of architecturally observable. 

First, is the house compound which is consist of at least 4 pavilions plus a complex of family temple. 

Second is a standing alone house some time with a separate pavilion for kitchen, and the third is a housing complex, where rows of houses belong to a different families standing face to face at the left and right side of a slot of land. This third type a family usually has 2 houses, one as normal house and the other as kitchen. The first and second types are usually found at low land where people live with irrigation system. Their house compound or one standing house is normally enclosed by private wall with entrance gate called "angkul-angkul" The position of houses either in a dense complex or scattered in a long distance from one another. It is mostly built close one another except in some places which were supposed much later settlement. 

 

The third are where the houses are in a dense complex normally the settlement in highland. The area of a settlement is normally laid out on the right and left side of a main road. both on the right and left sides of the area is divided into many slots of land (courtyard ), in Balinese this slot is called " natah". In one natah some time consists of many families with the pattern of house of each family facing each other, as mentioned above. 

Most families on a natah usually originated from one single family who has been living for many generations, from a father and mother who had developed into many family units. In contrast, Balinese house showing an effort that it is equipped with anti magic elements. A house for Balinese is an interwoven elements between super natural thoughts, land status, temples, cemetery, kinship, and social organization. Before proceeding to discuss about architectural style of the house we describe about these elements which also gives special characteristic to a house, especially the position and orientation.