Vernacular architecture

Vernacular architecture is the term used to categorize methods of construction which uses local resources to meet the local’s needs. Vernacular architecture developed at any time to reflect on the environment, culture, and history of the area where the architecture is located.

Vernacular architecture becomes important to the context of architecture in Asia because Asia consists of many different cultures and each of it different in each territory. Each region has a specific architecture derived from tradition, the local human adaptation of nature that gave rise to a variety of ways to cope with climate for building comfort.

The word vernacular comes from Latin vernakulus, which means domestic, indigenous, native; of Verna which means slave or a home-made indigenous natives. In principle refers to the type of vernacular architecture in which the original architecture with a specific time or place.

Contrary to the architecture designed by the architect, building on the knowledge of vernacular architecture in the channel through local traditions and usually based on trial and error passed down from generation to generation from the calculating of the physics building and its geometry.

Sometimes people get confused between vernacular architecture with traditional architecture, because between the two concepts are indeed there is a relationship. Vernacular architecture can also be taken from a culturally acceptable solution, but if only through repetition alone the buffer into a traditional architecture.