No country in this planet can beat Indonesia when it comes to roof shapes. With its rich culture and philosophy, this country seems to pay special attention to adorning the top of its people's traditional dwellings. Only in this rich archipelago can you find almost all possible roof shape. Be it a dome roof, horn roof, cone roof, or a pagoda-style roof. Here are some of our typical house converings.
Lumbung Sasak Roof
The Sasak on the island of Lombok built their stilted house like a rice barn with only one window. The roof-cum-wall is made of woven bamboo covered with hay.
Mbaru Niang Roof
In the comic book Asterix, there's this traditional house of the Gauls with its left and right sides of the roof touching the soil. Unique, huh? But our country has a more unique roof! Wae Rebo village in NTT boasts a cone-shaped, earth-touching roof (Mbaru Niang) made of dried lontar leaf. This five storey house practically uses its roof as its entire wall!
Tongkonan Roof
Not a single nation on this planet, except Indonesia, would shape their house roof like a ship or a huge sadlle back. The Torajan Tongkonan roof is made from bamboo shaped in a sweeping curve and thatched with black ijuk (Arenga pinnata). The Tongkonan roof, along with its two pinnacles, always faces north to symbolize their ancestral origin: from north.
Gonjong Roof
Where else on this planet can you see a roof resembling the horns of a buffalo? The unique shape of a minangkabau roof (bagonjong roof) symbolozes Tambo Alam Minangkabau: The victory of a baby buffalo (representing the Minang people) over big bufallo (representing the Javanese people).
Sao Ata Mosa Lakitana Roof
Where can we see a roof that reminds us of a square sombrero? In NTT! Yup, this high peak roofing is so unique that it has become a common object for professional photographers around the world.
Honai Roof
Who says that dome shaped roof can only be found on African tribal huts and on the igloos of the Inuits? Take a look at this Honai in Papua and you'll see the same dome-shaped thatched roof as the ones in Africa and in the Arctic.
Hindu Temple's Layered Roof
You don't need to go to China to marvel at the layer upon layer of pagoda roof. Just visit Meru Temple to appreciate the deep philosophy of its tiered-roof.
Source: Net, C 'n S magazine vol. 12 No 90 Page 16-17
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