The Javanese Palace and Its Patterns of Adapting European Elements

Keywords: Javanese palace, architecture, Euro-Javanese hybrid.

Ofita Purwani, M.Asrori *)
LPPM UNS, Penelitian, DP2M, Publikasi Internasional, 2009

Kraton Jogjakarta is one of Javanese palaces that still exist. Like the other Javanese palaces, Kraton Jogjakarta architecture is derived from Javanese house, with many rich ornaments attached to it. Some of the ornaments are hybrid, which show European and Javanese style as well. The objective of this research is to find the patterns of adapting European elements into the architecture of Kraton Jogjakarta. The method used in this research is naturalistic, with purposive sampling on the north part of Kraton, which is the richest in ornaments and most complex. The result online casino shows that there are some patterns in adapting the European into the Javanese. The first pattern is the pattern of the placement of the European elements, in which they only appear in hybrid forms. Those hybrid ornaments follow a certain pattern that they are placed in the periphery of important bangsals (single masses of building) and the courtyard gates. The complexity of the ornaments relates to the hierarchy of courtyards and bangsals. The second pattern is the pattern of ornament formation, in which there are four main strategies applied in the formation of ornament in Kraton Jogjakarta: distortion, layering, substitution and arrangement.