SUSTAINABILITY OF BETANG HOUSES CULTURAL WISDOM IN CENTRAL KALIMANTAN

Traditional Dayak houses in Kalimantan have several types of buildings that were built based on vernacular architectural traditions with certain building styles. The traditional house represents past human life views and ways of building which are full of cultural wisdom and values. Houses and the cultural values contained in these buildings have been inherited, rebuilt, reshaped, and redefined in the succession of sustainability and changing architectural traditions today. This study aims to discover the characteristics of the cultural wisdom in the Betang Dayak Ngaju house in Central Kalimantan, along with the continuity of its application in buildings today. Descriptive analysis was conducted to discover the wisdom of symbolic meanings and the various forms of sustainability in the present. The results showed that the Betang house displays a combination of ancient vernacular traditions and foreign architectural traditions that apply the typical Batang Garing metaphor as a core concept that illustrates the structural unity between the house and its environment.