Enjoy The Balinese house compound?

Established Balinese houses lined up in a single housing complex, usually size 30 x 40 m. Bali houses built under "asta Kosala Kosali" a way of traditional Balinese architecture, the layout and shape of the pass on from generation to generation. Speaking about Balinese house there are at least 3 types of architecturally observable. First, is the house compound which is consist of at least 4 pavilions plus a complex of family temple.

These lontar scrolls not only indicate the placement, but also the function of each building and further explained in the “Tri Hit Karaka” which divides the land into three levels: main (tame), middle (mayday), and low (nits).

In the ‘utama’ or main area of a Balinese house there lays a ‘sanggah’, or temple placed within a house or garden, to worship the spirits of the ancestors. In the ‘madya’ or middle area there are four main buildings: Bale Dangin, Bale Dauh, Bale Daja, and Paon. These four buildings face one another.

The ‘Bale Dangin’ (or BaleAdat) functions as a place to hold religions ceremonies (tooth filling or wedding ceremonies). The Bale Dangin directly faces the Bale Dauh and is bordered by a garden called ‘natah’. In the past, the Bale Dauh was built as an open space with six pillars or ‘saka’ and one bedroom. However, recently there have been many architectural changes leading to a variety of structures. The Bale Dauh of today contains several rooms, which is due to the population in crease on the island.
The ‘Bale Daja’ is located next to the Bale Dangin to the north. It functions as a bedroom for elderly members of the family, such as the grandparents. The Bale Daja faces the kitchen or ‘paon’.

The kitchen is located in the south area of the housing compound and is generally very large and contains a clay hearth used for cooking. The building procedure for a traditional Balinese home is contained in the Asta Kosala Kosali lontar. This lontar also provide the guidelines for determining the use and placement of construction material as well as the selection of best days to perform the construction.
A series of ceremonies are conducted throughout the building process, including prior to and after the construction.

In According with the Balise bilief,They treat every object as a human being, including the planning and lay - out of their house compund. The compound is basically divided into three parts on which part they build structure of different purposes.Applying the directional concept of their traditional compass,holy structures are built at the mountain at the mountain - wards of the compund such as shrinnes ( head ), in the middle yard are built all structures of living quarter ( body ), and at the seawards are kitchen,pigsty and remaining land where they usually throw rubbish away. A traditional Balinese compound is always enclosed either red bricks, sand stones, or odove walls covered with thatch roof made sedge grass or rice stubbles. The compound itself is entrance of several structure with " alang - alang roofs ". In front of the compound is the entrance gate.On both sides of the entrance walls, there are two niches as the substitution of shrines where , if the family is a bit financially better off they usually construct seperate shrines, sometimes elaborate ones.