The Sundanese and Javanese House Local Wisdom to Respond to the Climate Changes

Abstract

Climate change affects the ongoing seasons, including the season displacement, the out-indoor thermal comfort, building usage, healthy space and the confusion in the building – infrastructure execution schedule. However, in a place like West Java or Middle of Java that condition do not work out because some local customs, tradition and nature condition give difference and specific characteristics (uniqueness) called Local Wisdom. Climate change also influences three elements in architectural discipline. There are nature as a place that influences the building, building in nature as human product to fulfill human necessity, and human as designer and user or occupant of the nature. Therefore, it is better not to oppose the climate change but to obey and fill the pursuit because those elements are linked to each other. Those reasons made author interested to do the research especially in Sundanese and Javanese traditional houses. The research objective is to proof the hypothesis that local wisdom influences the climate change in certain zone condition. The discussion referred to some theory like Lippsmeier’s and Triharso’s theories. The descriptive, qualitative, casuistic methodology used in this research. Results showed that adaptation endurance to climate change was possible through maintenance-preservation and conservation the traditional house as local wisdom and teaching the occupant to maintain together. The result become an architectural product and will be continued as new hypothesis in the next research.