Saturday, September 24, 2011

Wooden House Traditional Craft

In North Sulawesi, there is the craft of making traditional Minahasa wooden house. The traditional houses because they were not only unique architecture, but also because of unloaded pairs.

Location Object
Crafts traditional wooden house is located in the Village Woloan, District Central Tomohon, Tomohon, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. Located about 40 kilometers from the city of Manado.

Overview
Very rarely do people build houses right now that is portable (can be moved). 
Because of the uniqueness of it, the North Sulawesi Provincial Government set the craft of making traditional home in Tomohon Minahasa as a leading tourist attraction.

Minahasa traditional house is a stage house made entirely of wood. 
Elements are arranged in such a way that can be easily disassembled and assembled. Nevertheless, the house was very strong. To ensure quality, craftsmen use high quality wood such as meranti wood and chrysolite.

Minahasa traditional house has been occupied space in various museum collections in the world. 
Many of the orders that come both from within and outside the country. There is also a businessman who ordered specifically for the cottage or bungalow. The price of a housing unit ranges between Rp 20 million to $ 100 million.Depending on material and size.

Residents Woloan has had a long history in the making of traditional houses. 
This village has existed since 1845. House-making activity has been carried out residents for nearly a hundred years.

For tourists who are interested in direct purchase of this craft, do not hesitate to transact. 
At that location a few shipping services are available with varying rates depending away goal. The house has been purchased and then disassembled and put into containers.

For tourists who do not want to buy, craftsmen were very open to allow tourists to see the process of making the house. 
In some locations there are also some facilities such as lodging and restaurants. Tomohon scenery is also very beautiful with a carpet of flower gardens and Mount Lokon.

Access
Woloan village is easily accessible. 
The journey from Manado only takes a maximum of two hours. You can use public transportation or travel services.

 
Know the Minahasa Traditional Houses

Know more traditional home near the Minahasa in North Sulawesi province. 
To reach the town of Tomohon from Jakarta, you can use a plane from Soekarno Hatta International Airport to Manado for approximately 3 hours drive.Arriving at Sam Ratulangi Airport Manado, you can head Tomohon use private vehicles or taxis. From downtown to the city of Manado Tomohon, takes 30 minute journey across the hilly road. Listeners, traditional houses can be found in Minahasa community Woloan village, about 15 minutes drive from downtown Tomohon use private vehicles or public transportation.

The main characteristic of the traditional house that is home Minahasa shaped stage. 
People in the village Woloan, calls this house the High Houses. From the ground, the height of the house more or less traditional Minahasa reaches three meters. The walls and floor of the High Houses made of wooden planks and timber trees linggua chrysolite. While the roof is made of zinc.

Another characteristic of the High Houses house system that can be disassembled and reassembled. 
To incorporate any part of the house, the villagers Woloan not use nails, but the couplers. Initially, this house is relatively simple shapes with colored walls and floors are left natural and unpainted wood. Now, the High House was made in such a way that resembles a modern house types. The walls and floor were painted-wood trees resemble natural color.

High house has two stairs located on the right and left at the front of the house. 
Although the shape of this house has been modernized, the number of stairs in front of the high house is always two.According to the teachings of his ancestors, the Minahasa people believe, if there is an evil spirit trying to break into the house of one of the ladder, the evil spirit will come back down the next ladder.
You are interested to enter into the High House? 
you can enter the house by first climbed the stairs that number tens of it.

Once you arrive at the top of the stairs, you arrived at the front entrance of the house. 
Once entered into the house, you can see a room complete with chairs and tables made of wood. In the next room, you can see some of the bedrooms complete with beds and wardrobes are also made of wood. Walking is not too far from the living room, there is a room.

When compared with the size of the living room, this space is relatively small. 
High House owners typically make this house as a place to gather with family. Behind the kitchen there is a family room. In the kitchen, you can see cooking stove made of bricks.Because the floor of a house made of wooden boards, homeowners make the stove on a wooden table.

In the language of Minahasa, putting a wooden table was named Dodika cookstove. 
For cooking fuel, they use firewood and kerosene. Just above the kitchen, you can see a room that looked like an attic. In the attic of that, the Minahasa people usually keep the crop, like rice and corn.

In the village Woloan, you not only can see up close the High Houses. 
Since the 1950s, villagers Woloan also produce traditional Minahasa house is for sale. With home systems apart pairs, high house can be more easily brought to the destination you want. Extended reassemble every part of the house, the village craftsman Woloan usually give the number of each part of the High Houses in accordance with the order of installation.

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