A piece of Detail for Traditional Roof structure at Limasan House
This image is a part of traditional roof construction for Limasan house. Material used by old teak wood which has a good fiber. This object located as retainer of construction at centered of the roof. The function is to smooth down roof burden to disseminate and towards to fulcrum at columns sustaining of roof construction. A Part of this is also as interior ceiling ornament, because Javanese house didn’t has of flat ceiling. The ceiling is just one layer, which is roof construction, so we can see roof structure as the ornament of interior house. This mean all of Limasan house construction becomes the detail for interior house. Java Island are rich with teak wood at long time ago. All of structure, construction and ornament at interior design usually use teak wood materials. So does with all of furniture. The carpenter has smart idea to make a beautiful design for engraving the teak wood to all furniture and ornament. Teak wood can reach age hundreds of year as house structure or interior ornament and furniture. This thing makes teak has value to sell is expensive in whole world.
