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Balinese traditional house

Balinese traditional house refers to the traditional


vernacular house of Balinese people in Bali, Indonesia.
The Balinese traditional house is the product of a blend
of Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, fused with
Austronesian animism, resulting in a house that is "in
harmony" with the law of the cosmos of Balinese
Hinduism.[1]

House compound
The Balinese traditional house is built as a house
compound, where daily functions are separated not by A bale meten (sleeping pavilion) within a Balinese
rooms, but by individual structures within an enclosing house compound.
wall.

See also
Indonesia
portal

Balinese
architecture

References

Citations
1. Tjahjono 1998,
pp. 36–7.

Works cited A simplest type of Balinese house compound. Legend: 1. Natah 2. Sanggah Kemulan
3. Bale daja or meten 4. Bale dangin or sikepat 5. Bale dauh or tiang sanga 6. Bale
Auger, Timothy, delod or sekenam 7. Paon 8. Lumbung 9. a pigsty 10. Lawang 11. Aling-aling 12.
ed. (2005). Sanggah pengijeng karang
Eyewitness
Travel Guides -
Bali & Lombok. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited. ISBN 0751368709.
Davison, Julian (2003). Introduction to Balinese Architecture (https://books.google.com/book
s?id=vyCF_UoqMAgC&q=A+Balinese+man+should+build+one+of+these+shrines+when+h
e+marries.). Singapore: Tuttle Publishing Limited. ISBN 9780794600716.
Davison, Julian (August 5, 2014). Balinese Architecture (https://books.google.com/books?id=
HCBFBAAAQBAJ). Singapore: Tuttle Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781462914227.
Tjahjono, Gunawan, ed.
(1998). Architecture (http
s://archive.org/details/arc
hitecture00indo).
Indonesian Heritage.
Vol. 6. Singapore:
Archipelago Press.
ISBN 981-3018-30-5.
Nordholt, H.G.C. Schulte
(2010). The Spell of Several house shrines belonging to a
Power: A History of Balinese house compound.
Balinese Politics, 1650-
1940 (https://books.googl
e.com/books?id=ZUVlA
AAAQBAJ&q=balinese+
house+kelod).
Distinctive shaped lumbung (rice
Verhandelingen van het
Koninklijk Instituut voor
barn) of southern Bali.
Taal-, Land- en
Volkenkunde. Leiden:
BRILL. ISBN 9789004253759.
Oka Saraswati, A.A. (2008). "TRANSFORMASI
ARSITEKTUR BALE DAJA" (http://dimensi.petra.ac.id/in Gate houses marks the entrance to a
dex.php/ars/article/view/16972/16955) [Bale daja private compound in this Balinese
architectural transformation]. DIMENSI - Journal of traditional village of Penglipuran.
Architecture and Built Environment (in Indonesian). 36
(1). Surabaya: Institute of Research and Community
Outreach Petra Christian University. Retrieved
29 October 2015.

External links
Media related to Balinese traditional houses at
Wikimedia Commons

A scene within a Balinese walled


residential compound belonged to a
common man.

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