Enjoying Coffee Under Acehnese Traditional House

Rumoh Aceh or Acehnese Traditional House is a elevated house type. Like other traditional house in many places, it has own philosophy behind it's architectural concept.

entrance into Museum

This philosophy usually derived from many factors such as religion, culture, climate, etc.
Under it's floor, there is space where the people usually use it as a social space to interact while doing many things such as preparing everything related to their daily works.

a traditional grain grinder

The women usually use this space more often than the men, they use this space together for preparing food for the dinner while the children playing around.

Today, it is difficult to find this traditional houses in most cities in Aceh province. But eventhough we still can find them in the villages in Aceh.

Luckily, the philosophy of architectural concept from Acehnese traditional house still adopted in many buildings in Aceh such as famous Aceh Tsunami Museum, government offices building, etc.

Construction detail of Rumoh Aceh

A university in Banda Aceh, islamic state univesity Ar -Raniry, build this traditional house as a museum. The space under this house used as a coffee shop, so students and lecturer or officer could have a sharing space for their social interaction while enjoying a cup of coffee.

Rumoh Aceh as Museum and Coffee Shop

coffee shop plays important role in Acehnese culture. Everything could be happen in coffee shop such as bussiness deal, negotiation, politics, etc.
Some people believe many problems could be solved in coffee shop and great ideas also come up from coffee shop.