Architecture Measure Unit in Bali

Architecture Measure Unit in Bali holiday villas

Unit of measurement in traditional Bali villa accommodation people architecture called "GEGULAK", derived from the physical parts of the building owner or user. The measurement unit is set in a bamboo splinter as a basic module. Through gegulak determined the size of each dimension of architecture ranging from the size of the yard Bali Holiday Villa, the layout of the building period up to the small building elements, such as:

long pole (sesaka),

beam length of pull (emblem, pementang, and tada axis),

rafter length (rib-rib),

decoration on the pole (kekupakan). etc.

The size of the yard used fathoms unit, namely the outstretched arms length from fingertip to fingertip right left with variations "fathoms alit", "fathoms madia" and "grand fathoms".

Number of multiple units of measure fathoms plus "PENGURIP" is the length of the sides of the yard measured.

For the size of the layout of the buildings Bali Best Hotel of each period based on the unit of measure "SITE" ie, along the footprints of the tip of the heel to toe. Number multiples tread determined based on a multiple sloka wawaran of ASTAWARA (sri-senses-teacher-yama-rudra-brahma-kala-uma) which ended pengurip "a footprint Ngandang" which is as wide as the soles of the feet. The determination of each multiple buildings adapted to function in line with the meaning of the expression of each wawaran, such as:

sri multiples of the distance to the building barn / place of rice (paddy as a symbol of Dewi Sri);

brahma multiples for distance paon / kitchen (fire as saktinya Brahma);

kelipaatn teachers to place ancestor worship buildings (Bhatara Hyang Guru) ff.

Dimensions of the building used unit "RAI" (the size of a cross-pole) derived from the finger segments, namely: the three segments, three and a half sections and four sections.

This quantity is used as the basis of the size of the cross section of the pole to pole to pole greatest small. As a multiple of the size of the other, the size of the building Bali Accommodation parts of multiples rai also added pelebih to pengurip.

Pengurip size also taken from parts of fingers with each term, such as:

A Guli (distance fingertip to the first segment of the finger),

A Guli honey (distance of the first segment to the second segment of the fingers),

A Usage seven (one vortex index finger),

a nyari (finger width).

Pengurip can also be taken from the width of each finger and the long side of the cross section of the pole fractions, namely: a quarter, half, three-quarter length side cross section.

In principle gegulak measure is part a reflection of the community instinct Bali holiday villa seminyak to maintain harmony and balance the human relationship with the universe, according to pilosofi Tri Hita Karana. Architecture as an artificial environment (one form of the new nature) is expected to protect and accommodate the culprit as the universe. Therefore, the physical size of the system (proportion) "new nature" is never apart from the size of the head of the family or members of the body of its owner.

Gegulak as a proportion of the traditional system which is crucial in the process of making architecture in Bali holiday villa resulted in the establishment of residential architecture with a very varied proportions, and in particular is very attached to its users.