The Transcendent Meaning of Traditional Architecture (Traditional Ethnography of Kalang in Traditional Architecture Limasan in Kendal District-Central Java-Indonesia

Abstract

House is a basic need for humans especially those who are already omah-omah (married). When a person/someone needs a house, certainly many considerations made for a preference then he/she will meet a figure who is considered capable to realize his dream. There is negotiation about the development process. If it is  agreed, then the owner will prepare everything for the beginning of implementation. The Javanese build houses through several traditions and rituals that accompany the design process. The above process is commonly done by the Javanese, although the built is a modern house with the taste of the present. Now a days, in modern times, are rarely found people build traditional Javanese houses with a variety of traditional considerations, using intact Javanese traditional calculations and in indigenous villages still practicing ancestral traditions. Village (place) Kalang is a Javanese sub-ethnic village known as the Kalang wong (people) group. This group is considered strange by some Javanese because it still carry out the tradition of Kalang. This group, one of the traditions is  building a house of Limasan Java (Limasan architecture) and they run village management with tradition. The process that some people find complicated and inconvenient, but inner peace becomes the hope of the group. Through ethnographic techniques in the deductive paradigm, it is found the relationship between planning and design of Limasan architecture with traditional Kalang village as follows: 1) Limasan architecture is a house that is considered suitable and can accommodate the tradition of Kalang; 2) The process of building a house involving figures who understand about the culture and traditions of Kalang; 3) The Limasan house of Kalang  a transcendent meaning in the context of the tradition of Kalang in the village.