A STUDY OF PREDICATE FUNCTION IN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE GRAMMAR CASE STUDY: TIRTOSARI VILLAGE, SAWANGAN DISTRICT, CENTRAL JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA

Eddy Arinto, Uras LM Siahaan, Rumiati Rosaline Tobing

Abstract: As a grammar in natural language, architectural grammar has a set of rules to communicate. Architectural grammar is the composition of space where each space has a function in the arrangement. As in natural language it isknown thefunctions of Subject, Predicate, Object and Adverb, where predicate have the most important function. Predicate in architecture is a space that has strong characteristics of controlling the composition of space and generative – to be able to derive a number of arrangement of space according to space and time. The discourse is how to find a predicate in the grammar of vernacular architecture in the study area. Approach is done through linguistic theory, analogize the language with architecture .Object of the material under study is the vernacular residential artifacts of rural communities in the village of Tirtosari, Sawangan District, Magelang Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. The research results are first, a discovery of spaces which have predicate characteristics and second, a conceptual model of spatial grammar which shows the position and role of space as a predicate.

Keywords: architectural grammar, generative, predicate.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0607001