TRADITIONAL BALINESE HOUSE TRANSFORMATION IN TOURIST VILLAGES

Abstract

Bali relies on its culture to maintain its position as a tourist destination. This includes traditionalpractices as well as architecture. But the traditional Balinese house is frequently transformed inorder to accommodate tourism activities. Such practices have modified the context, internalspaces and form of dwellings as a whole. Thus traditional domestic practices based on thephilosophy of Tri Hita Kharana are also affected. This phenomenon raises the vexed issue as tohow both can coexist within the same spatial envelope, which is the subject of this paper. Themethod of investigation includes an examination of buildings and spaces as well as interviewswith occupants as to how they accommodate such change.

Keywords

• culture, the traditional Balinese house, transformation