Pendhapa

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Pendhapa in Kraton Kasepuhan, Cirebon
Tumpangan ceiling within a pendhapa

A pendhapa or pandhapa (

Sanskrit word mandapa ("hall").[citation needed
]

The Dutch writer Multatuli in his colonial reformist novel Max Havelaar described the pendhapa thus: "After a broad-brimmed hat, an umbrella, or a hollow tree, a 'pendoppo' [sic] is certainly the most simple representation of the idea 'roof'."[2]

Derived from ancient Javanese architectural elements, pendhapa are common ritual spaces primarily intended for ceremonies, and also for purposes such as receiving guests in the compounds of wealthy Javanese, and even as cottage industry work spaces. Pendhapa is constructed as a stand-alone structure or, attached to a walled inner structure (dalem), may form the front part of a traditional Javanese house (omah).

History

The oldest surviving images of ancient Javan vernacular architecture appear in

Kota Gede, Yogyakarta
. This evidence suggests that the design has not changed much for over a millennia.

They remain fundamental components of Javanese

timber but masonry versions are in existence such as in the Kraton Kanoman in Cirebon. Wealthy modern day home builders, in attempting to design homes that draw on traditional Javanese experience of space, have dismantled, transported and re-assembled pendhapa to form modern-traditional hybrid homes. The pendhapa is used as a batik making place for women.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ A Study of Traditional House of Northern Central Java - A Case Study of Demak and Jepara - by Totok Roesmanto
  2. ^ Multatuli. Max Havelaar (1860), translated by Alphonse Nahuÿs. Chapter 5. (Google Books)
  3. ^ [https://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB11022.pdf Dynamic Usage of Space in the Javanese Architecture Year 1921-2007 by Mohamad MUQOFFA]
  • Schoppert, P., Damais, S., Java Style, 1997, Didier Millet, Paris, 207 pages,
    ISBN 962-593-232-1
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