Ideal home for Tropical Countries

How to choose the ideal home for a tropical country like Indonesia? The question is often raised through the issue of global warming is increasingly widespread.
Most of the audience may hardly notice the concept of home to suit the weather and climate, given today's society is more likely to consider the trend rather than the needs of their residence. Later, the habit as it began to disappear due to global warming issues have increasingly penetrated the thinking people of Indonesia. The issue is not only a blow to the government, but also for society.
Thus, governments, architects, and the general public in droves to voice the importance of a welcoming home with nature. One of them by applying the concept of green homes.
According Pramtama Her architect, in general we are still experiencing an environmental crisis. One way to change it, namely by applying the concept of green on occupancy, such as the use of natural light and minimize our dependence on technology. Given that global warming has become a world issue, it would require awareness of all walks of life to increasingly concerned about the environment.
It is quite difficult to change all of the initial state is no longer relevant for the switch to the "rules" in the past. Therefore, it takes the first step to minimize the negative effects of this situation. Her clear, we've had to design a comfortable home design. In that sense, can breathe air and are able to absorb enough natural light.
"Because our community is already accustomed to the 'tolerances', such as the use of air conditioning, electricity usage during the day, and other behaviors, so as to transform it from scratch is quite difficult," said Her.
So, from now on we must eliminate the "tolerance" and return to our real life. "You do this by applying the concept of green homes in the area, reducing air conditioning usage, and reduce the use of headlights during the day and lifestyle," Her suggestions.
Meanwhile, according to architect Nunung Adiwijaya, the characteristics of the first green concept, the house has many large openings such as windows and tall. With many openings, the home will adopt more air and natural light, while the reduction of electrical energy during the day. Second, the higher the building, the ceiling is made of more than three meters.
These designs are not only energy efficient homes, but also gives the impression of luxury and magnificent. "Usually the design is implemented in public spaces, such as the family room and living room," added Nunung. The third characteristic, usually a concept like this often take advantage of many landscapes, such as the use of the park in the front and back of house

East West Combined Architecture

Style East meet West is often applied in occupancy since it can accommodate not only two styles of home design, art and culture is also unique. Display the end, the home becomes a fresh, captivating and timeless.

In practice, usually synonymous with Eastern elements all things ethnic, while Western philosophy tends to be shown through the design simple and modern. Modern house architecture can be decorated in its interior a touch of ethnic.

Meanwhile, the effect of ethnicity is represented by a selection of knick-knacks or furniture traditional breathing sampled from certain areas. "Architecture with the concept of East meet West is a cultural element in the architectural design," said Andry Hermawan architect.

According to him, the use of culture most of the display architecture of East China and Japan. Ornaments used on windows, doors, lights and even using the architecture of China. The elements of West typically use the concept of culture and arts of the countries in mainland Europe, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

Currently there are architects and interior designers who translated the concept of East meet West to lead to the style of contemporary design. Therefore, the flow is essentially also part of a mix of modern influence of ethnic and cultural regions. Many buildings are constructed with modern style and refers to the international style, the interior gets a touch of art from the East.

While in residence, today we meet a lot of European-style architecture, but still apply the elements of Java as an accent doors, windows, and furniture. And vice versa.