ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 325

Thu Mar 8 13:57:07 PST 2007

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THE SUNDANESE HOUSE
    by Gabriella Mihalyi
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	Three hundred steps lead down to the Sundanese village of
	Kampung Naga. Here, in this valley of West Java,
	Indonesia, the people consciously maintain the knowledge
	of their ancestors and their traditional lifestyles in a
	close relationship with nature. This philosophy extends
	to their construction methods using local materials of
	timber, stone, bamboo, and palm leaves.

	The first 100 steps are surrounded by large, leafy ebony
	trees. From the next 100, the rice fields on the valley
	floor are visible, along with glimpses of tiny white
	houses with black roofs. Descending the last 100 steps,
	the visitor, accompanied by a requisite guide, sees the
	everyday logic of valley life. The hills above provide
	the materials of village life - water, wood, and food -
	and below is the river that flows under the village and
	carries away waste.

	Kampung Naga, or Dragon Village, is one of the few
	Sundanese villages in West Java where the people
	steadfastly maintain traditions despite the proximity of
	modern influences. In their architecture, this means
	functional simplicity and a uniformity accented with
	small differences in details.

	Here, the house is not only a building but the center of
	life. In the Sundanese language, the word for house,
	bumi, is the same as the word for Earth.
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8NW8 in Portland's Pearl
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	The ideals are familiar to any architect working in a big
	city: a project should be well designed, well built, and
	well integrated into its urban environment. And yet we
	have too few U.S. examples to follow when it comes to
	applying these principles to housing for the poor.
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Alaskan Engineering
    by Brian Libby
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	The new building for the Alaska Native Science and
	Engineering Program (ANSEP) at the University of Alaska
	in Anchorage is becoming a cultural icon. ANSEP serves
	many different indigenous cultures, each with different
	ideas about appropriate symbolism. The building's final
	form was based on a shared icon arrived at after an
	interesting, sometimes arduous, journey.
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