Traditional Suang Lotud houses of Sabah Borneo,Malaysia.

Dusun Lamin/House In Borneo 1814.

A traditional Suang Lotud house, consisting of a veranda, kitchen and dining area, elevated sleeping and living area and storage attic, is said to replicate the houses in the spirit world of the Suang Lotud belief system.

The Lotud traditional longhouse is a remakable form of architecture. It is in fact the most sophisticated achievement in architecture in the whole of Sabah. This is because it is made of planks (in the old days) strenuously carved with the adze (Malay: beliung) without the facility of saws! The whole house uses not a single nail (as nails were almost impossible to obtain in the old days) but clever slip-in techniques of fitting beams, as well as tying up conenctions with rattans. A unit of the longhouse consists of a sleeping area (ko'odopo'), a kitchen (ropuhan), an attic (tilud), a corridor (olot-olot) separating the walled part of the house and the common varendah (soliw). The number of poles or stilts depends on the length or the number of living units. In the Tuaran district,.

Dusun Long House.

Root top Of  Dusun House Build By Palm Leaves/"Atap"

The flooring is made of stems of palm- trees split into laths, and in other cases of cane, bamboo or even twigs.

A model house Of Suang Lotud,Borneo.

Mangrove Palm or Nipah palm;

Palm leaves ; if the latter the nipa leaves are used when procurable. The flooring in some villages is made of stems of palm- trees split into laths, and in other cases of cane, bamboo or even twigs. The laths or bamboos allow a delicious current of air to permeate the apartment. The outer walls are of plank or nipa leaves, the inner of bark. No nails are used, the beams or rafters are lashed together with rattan and secured by wooden pegs. The posts are innumerable and of hard wood.

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