Title : Preserving tradition: the role of community customs and sustainable practices in traditional house preservation on Nias Island, Indonesia

Journal : Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2024.2431303

Author : Fanitra Pedi Atmanti and Yasufumi Uekita

ABSTRACT
Indonesia is home to over 300 ethnicities, many of which have traditional communities living in rainforest settlements. Unfortunately, the number of traditional houses is decreasing because 20th century introduction to Christianity, post-independence agenda in 1970, 21st century tourism and globalisation. Bawömataluo Village, Nias Island, has the largest number of traditional wooden houses (52%) that are still preserved (Atmanti and Uekita 2023). This research focuses on Bawömataluo Village, taking 30 samples of omo hada, observing the renovation activities, and the connection between the rainforest and the settlement. The investigation finds out that there is a continuity of the duality of space, the use of similar Nias native wooden materials inside the house even after modifications, the rainforest holds a strong connection with the living heritage, enough availability of the local materials, building technique and mutual custom in the living heritage will help the community to preserve their traditional house for future generation.This research finally provides calculations of materials required for traditional houses and assess the number of trees should be conserved for the preservation of traditional houses for a span of 100 years. This research finding contributes to heritage preservation in both academic and practical applications.

GADA Global, Tremendum, and Tananusa participated in the Pesta Indonesia event at the Tenjin Central Park Fukuoka.
Date : October 12th-13th 2024
Event website : pestaindonesia.com/ja/
Products sold: Duality t-shirt, tote bag, stickers set, GADA global postcards, glow-in-the-dark stickers, Tananusa`s postcards, and books sample.

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DEW MAGAZINE

Its a collaboration between TREMENDUM and GADA Global

The DUALITY  pop-up and exhibition is a collaboration work between GADA and TREMENDUM.
The event was featured in :
SO-EN Online
Tokyo Weekender
Bunka fc

Fani Atmanti presents 15 minutes speech of the topic :
The OMO Project, A Magnificent of Asian Aesthetic

She explained about the story of how she made the OMO project and the story behind it.
The speech also includes her two books which was written together with Dini Aiko and also OMO bag which is collaboration with Singaporean designer Karyn Lim.

Here are some links related to the event :
LIVE EVENT
Guangzhou ArtBook Fair 2024

OMO transformation bag is a collaboration design with Singaporean designer Karyn Lim
This bag was also exhibited in Gallery Hz, Tokyo in DesignArt event U30 Program.

Article : The Peak Magazine

OMO transformation bag is a collaboration work with Singaporean designer Karyn Lim and it has been selected as Tokyo Designart U30 on October 2022.

This year, OMO was exhibited for 2 days in OMO SEBUA (tawolo area) and open to public. Fani Atmanti also present in front of Bawomataluo Villages member and share her story about the idea behind OMO bag, the collaboration with Karyn Lim,  and their collaboration with Bawomataluo`s wood craftsman Ama Sermon (Mustafa Nehe).

OMO transformation bag`s story, a collaboration with Karyn Lim and exhibition in Designart Tokyo is featured in Home & Decor Magazine April 2023.

web : Home & Decor Singapore

Fani Atmanti has been invited as a guest lecturer in Research Methodology class for 1st year Doctoral degree in Architecture Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. She explained about research in Indonesia vernacular architecture and rain forest traditional settlement.

Class : Research Methodology
Date : March 14th 2023
Place : Doctoral Meeting Room (Department of Architecture Engineering UGM)
Invitation from : Prof. Ir. Tarcicius Yoyok Wahyu Subroto, M.Eng., Ph.D., IPU.

Program : U30 (Karyn Lim)
Exhibition : October 21st -30th 2022
Place : Hz Gallery, Shibuya

Website : Transformation Bag
Publication :
SOEN Tokyo
Design Anthology Asia

Photo credit : Design Anthology