Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Semarang -- A Unique Town in Architectural View

I would say that my hometown,Semarang,has very unique architectural sides in common. Semarang affected by several cultural assimilation ,due to the style pf the building. It mainly influenced by the dutch,china and native culture itslef ( Java).
Semarang divided into several area,in which the culture influenced them the most. There are three area that mostly have unique architectural sides.They are Kota lama, Pecinana,and Jatingaleh. In area called "Kota Lama" ,located downtown of Semarang,has colonial-dutch style of building. In other word, many building here referred into art deco style. Most of building here use pastel color,such as beige,creme,white and so on, which is being one of the charactersitic of art deco style. Another thing that simply admit the building into the art deco style is the simplicity of the shape,ornaments,coloumn and detail in building. Another sites ,which quite interesting instead of Kota lama is "Pecinan". All of the building here have oriental style. The building mostly colored in red. The ornaments,statue even the fench indicates that the building is very oriental. For the statue, they usually captured theis god/godess.Not quite different from the ornaments which sometimes the carving in those ornaments tell us the story about the god/godess too or something related into spirituality. They have unique fench.What's make them unique is the height of the fench, ornaments and sometime the decor their fench with somekind of offering,which could be the sign that the house is belong to chinese. The last area as fascinateing as those 2 above, is Jatingaleh, It has different atmosphere from other., It becasue the bulidng built around it is a native /traditional buidling. Which simply not affected by those 2 culture above. The building called joglo. The joglo located in front of the house,which makes the living home quite interesting. The function of joglo is for welcoming a guess. Besides of their function,Joglo has very gorgeus material used that should be concerned of.They made from Jati woods,which is the strongest kind of woods, and nowadays,it is very rare in Inodesia to find the woods. The woods created into the whole sequel overlapped construction that made Joglo very strong. Strong enough to beat the eartquake so there are no many damages occur. What makes Joglo able to "defeat" the earthquake is the floor construction,which made up into higher position from the ground( Different with another 2 bulding above). It allowed the shocking of the building while eartquake happens. The function of the "upgrading" floor is for shockbreaker compare to car.
In spite of three arear above, Semarang likely become unique in architectural sieds. therefore, Semarang is one of a heritage city in Indonesia ,well-knowed as unusual architectural view,in ech side if city. You can see Semarang in many faces due to its architectural sides.

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