Struktur Ruang dan Elemen Persekitaran RumahMelayu Tradisi di Kelantan

Kelantan’s Malay Traditional House on Space Structuresand Surrounding Elements

Abstract

Patterns of the traditional Malay village were created through linkages between culture and nature. Culture has a broad interpretation and should not be seen from the perspective of custom and traditions of the community. It should seen through the real culture, which only is expressed by artistic Malays house building expertise. In addition to houses, the Malay community would structure and select the element or elements that complement the life as home not only to have furniture and cooking wares but also the life outside the house. In the surrounding environment traditional Malay house, there are certain rules are implied. Space and elements are organized and structured in a manner that only particular reason only known by the occupant. Studies on Character and Space Environment Elements of Traditional Malay House in Kelantan managed to build a new branch of knowledge implicitly in the culture of Malay community. Through this study, values and traditions of the community are displayed. It is a culture or behavior occurred in a geographic scale that may have been seen as a panoramic landscape of the village. This research chooses the scope of the village in Sungai Kelantan basin. General features that can be seen on the village Malay home is an open courtyard, flanked by local fruit trees such as rambutan or mangoes, there is also a wooden pallet resting place and open wells. The back of the house is reserved for family activities and partly for economic income for some of the residents and their family. The area is divided into a number of partitions of the spatial structure for garden, the orchards and farming areas.