MUFFINTOSAY.COM - Every rainy season, the map of flood-prone areas in major cities barely changes. New housing developments keep appearing, yet the list of neighborhoods vulnerable to flooding only grows longer. Ironically, many of these areas are marketed as “modern,” “strategically located,” and—most often—“flood-free.” As an architecture graduate and someone who spent years covering the property sector, I often find myself wondering: where did we go wrong? Is nature becoming increasingly hostile, or have our building practices drifted too far from environmental logic? The answer, perhaps, lies in both. But one thing is certain: we too often assume we are smarter than nature, and too rarely do we learn from knowledge that has been proven over hundreds of years—such as traditional architecture. Traditional Houses Were Never Built Casually Traditional architecture in the Indonesian archipelago was never born out of aesthetic display or fleeting trends. It emerged from the need to surv...
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