Green structure and green technology in preserving traditional architecture of Rumoh Aceh

Abstract

Rumoh Aceh is one of the traditional architectural house in Indonesia that has become a cultural heritage as well as the identity of Aceh region. Rumoh Aceh as a building has the value of sustainability and environmentally friendly, and also loaded with the values of local wisdom that exist in the lives of Acehnese people. Rumoh Aceh in its development has undergone various adjustment processes to the environment so that it can survive until now. But along with the development of modern era that demands efficiency and the fact of increasingly difficult to find good quality wood materials for the manufacture and maintenance of traditional architecture of Rumoh Aceh, then gradually fewer people build and maintain Rumoh Aceh. Although constrained in the difficulty of procurement of good quality wood materials and maintenance, the existence of Rumoh Aceh must be maintained. Therefore, this research needs to be done as an effort to understand the constraints of the availability of good quality wood materials for the manufacture and maintenance of traditional architecture of Rumoh Aceh and find alternative solutions that are environmentally friendly to support the preservation efforts of Rumoh Aceh. This qualitative descriptive research uses variety of primary and secondary data of traditional architecture of Rumoh Aceh. The results of this study revealed the use of green structures and technologies as well as environmentally friendly engineering wood materials can be one of the alternative solutions in preserving the traditional architecture of Rumoh Aceh.