Submitted by Jonathan Budd

TRANSFORMATION OF SUNDANESE TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE FOR NEW USES

Architecture News - Sep 05, 2007 - 00:00   10611 views

Sundanese Culture is a West Javaspecific traditional value culture with countless of uniqueness andpotential to be applied into New Uses as needed by modern societynowadays. Withits natural potential uniqueness, KSA attempt to be exclusive anddifferent from any other resorts. KSA try to create self-identificationby presenting traditional culture elements into its design. Thearchitect uses regionalism architecture approach to transform Sundanesetraditional culture into the resort design. Located on Sundanese land, Kampung Sumber Alam (KSA) Resort strives to reveal original Sundanese kampong ambiance to the guests.They have been inviting to attentive about the exquisiteness anduniqueness of Sundanese culture through landscape display along withbuilding exterior and interior design that represent traditionalkampong.
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