The Wisdom Of Traditional Architecture In Indonesia To Anticipate The Problem Of The Thermal Comfort Inside The Building

Abstract

Traditional building in some places in Indonesia such as Batak, Toraja, Timor, Papua, had already adapted with the nature and environment through trial and error process in the long period. Due to the various cultural factors, the performance of the building Architecture are different. Even though the performance of building architecture are different, every traditional building has similarity to create the thermal comfort of the building. For example the way of using material, natural ventilation, solar radiation protection, etc. In the design process of vernacular or modern Architecture. The wisdom traditional architecture to create the thermal comfort of the building can be used as a referency. That’s mean we are not only depend on the mechanical air condition, but we have to pay more attention to the use of natural system, due to energy saving. Therefore, we can hope that the use of traditional architecture in this decade does not only implement in the use of architectural performance or the ornament. But also in the application of the wisdom traditional architecture it self to create the thermal comfort inside of the building.