Abstract & Overview
The immediate accumulation observation for the surrounding usually used in developing the architectural design. In vernacular architecture, the design passed from one generation to the other even without designer and academic method. Vice versa, the contemporary architecture nowadays is barely care about the relationship of the building and its surrounding nature. This research will try to look at this phenomenon and emphasizing the prominent role of climate on the design development of vernacular architecture and how it is impact thecontemporarly architecture in Indonesia. In addition, it will further discuss how the climate is having a close relation with the building physical performance in order to reach an energy efficiency. Architect should harmonize the building with its surrounding nature. They should consider more prominent elements in tropical-humid building, ie air temperature, wind, sun radiation and humidity itself. This paper consists of three main parts. First part consists of introduction about the climate in Indonesia. Indonesia known to be located in the tropical and humid region. Following that, the second part explains the basic characteristic of vernacular architecture in Indonesia from literatures and precedents. Lastly, the third section describes several case studies in which reflects the relation between vernacular architecture in its relationship with contemporary architecture. Through this paper, expectantly people can see that to solve the climate problem, architecture explorations are really needed as those affect the energy efficiency and construction cost in the building. Keywords: vernacular architecture, energy effiecieny, contemporary architecture, sustainable architecture.