Sundanese traditional house

[1] Sundanese traditional houses mostly take the basic form of a gable roofed structure, commonly called kampung-style roof, made of thatched materials (ijuk black aren fibers, hateup leaves or palm leaves) covering wooden frames and beams, woven bamboo walls, and its structure is built on short stilts.

The more elaborate overhanging gablet roof is called julang ngapak, which means "bird spreading wings".

Other traditional Sundanese house forms including Buka Pongpok, Capit Gunting, Jubleg Nangkub, Badak Heuay, Tagog Anjing, and Perahu Kemureb.

[4] The traditional Sulah Nyanda house is divided into three parts: sosoro (front), tepas (middle) and imah (rear) rooms.

The veranda-like front of the house, commonly called the sosoro, serves as a guests' reception area.

While at the back of the house or commonly called as imah used as a place to cook and store the produce of fields especially rice.

The Baduy people are well known for their hermit-like self-imposed isolationism which rejects the modern way of life and outside influences.

For example, it is forbidden for them to apply masonry technique, such as using earthenware or terracotta tiles for roof, nor using bricks, sand and cements as building materials.

A traditional Sundanese house with Julang Ngapak roof and Capit Gunting ornament in Papandak, Garut circa 1920s.
A model of tagog anjing form of Sundanese traditional house
Sulah nyanda of the Baduy
The bas-reliefs on the 9th century Prambanan temple depicting vernacular architecture, compared to the structures of traditional Sundanese houses in Garut and Kuningan of the 1920s that are similar to it.
Black aren fibres thatched roofed houses of Kampung Naga village in Tasikmalaya Regency
West hall of the Bandung Institute of Technology