HOUSE OF BOLON

            HOUSE OF BOLON

 







Toba Batak Traditional House called
Bolon House, which has a rectangular building that is sometimes occupied by 5
to 6 families. Entering this Bolon House must climb the stairs located in the
middle of the house, with an odd number of stairs. When people want to enter
the house, should bow the head so as not to knock on a cross beam. This means
the guest must respect the owner of the house.



The floor of this traditional Batak
house is sometimes up to 1.75m above the ground and the bottom is used to keep
animals, such as pigs, chickens, and so on. The entrance of this traditional
house, formerly has 2 kinds of door frames that are horizontal and vertical
door, but now the horizontal door is not used anymore. The room in the
traditional house is an open room without rooms, although there are more than
one family together, but that does not mean there is no room division. Because
in this traditional house the division of the room is limited by their strong
customs




The room behind the right-hand corner
is called jabu bong, which is occupied by the head of a house or porjabu bong,
with a wife and small children. But in the left corner opposite the Jabu bong
is called Jabu Soding, which is reserved for girls who have been married but do
not have their own home. As for the front left corner called Jabu Suhat,
reserved for the oldest son who has married and on the opposite is called
Tampar Piring is reserved for guests.




 If a large family then held a place
between two spaces or jabu attached, so the room increased two more and this
room called Jabu Tonga-ronga ni jabu hue. Although the house is adjacent, each
family has its own kitchen located at the back of the house, in the form of
additional buildings. And between the two rows of the room that is in the
middle of the house is a neutral area called a lake and serves as a place of
deliberation.







Toba Batak traditional house based on its
function can be distinguished into the house used for family residence called
ruma, and the house used as a storage (granary) called Sopo. The building
materials consist of wood with large and sturdy poles. The walls of the board
or edge, the floor is also from the board while the roof of the fibers or
leaves rumbiah. Toba Batak typical type of traditional house is a curved roof
shape and at