Amazing Millipede House of West Papua - Built from the Forests - Rumah Kaki Seribu
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- An incredible house from the Arfak region of West Papua. The house has evolved to fit to the very steep mountainsides as the many legs can all be adjusted in length to form a level platform. It is built almost entirely out of young saplings, much easier to fell with simple stone tools than the large forest trees. The traditional house has completely disappeared within the last few years, although a few more modern variants still exist, but with the help of an excellent local guide, we managed to track down one of the last families of master builders with the skill to construct this complex structure.
Many thanks to Sani Ahoren, Yuber Ahoren, Terson Ahoren, Ismail Ahoren, Mael Ahoren and their many friends and family who helped to make this possible, and to our friends Marjolein Sengkerij (Anggi) and Theo Oldet (our guide) at Travel Papua who organised the access and local arrangements travelpapua.com/ , who also have a fabulous beach house you can stay in.
If anyone would like to visit the family would be delighted to welcome you.
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MUSIC: I write most the music for our more recent videos. If you like it let me know, I know it is not perfect, but I enjoy it!
this is why youtube is better than tv shows nowadays maybe its just for me
Exactly the Lochness monster energy
I am glad to see that it is not the only old people who knows the craft. Majority of people involved in construction are young people and women and children, that’s absolutely great! Thank you for documenting, and sharing !
Bends and curves create tensions inside building structures which strenghten and therefore stabilize the building. This is finest engeneering and technology! Bravo! Clever builders! 🥰❤
I grew up in the tropics in Queensland and our house was up on stilts, it really is the best design for the tropics.
Not a nail or computer in sight. Such sophisticated engineering naturally evolved is remarkable to behold. Many thanks for the video; from Australia.
Simply wow. I hope this architecture and its people survive.
Curved is 100% function since it introduces a tension in the building keeping everything firm and tight
Amazing craftsmen's and hand rails, I'm am just SO AMAZED❤❤❤❤❤
Aloha! Very important to record these skills and traditions. The delivery of the material. The dedication. The time and expert attention to details. Nothing I have ever observed. Remarkable humans. Asante 🌄🌍🌙
Great video. The builders are master craftsmen. Thanks for sharing.
This house is functiomal art. I'm impressed and humbled.
Wow. Super impressive. They are so smart and skillful.
👀hard working people 😍🙋🏽♀️
Amazing and Awesome
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this video and the music complimented it nicely. Well done.
The video turned out absolutely amazing!! Well done 👏👏👏
Thanks again for all your help. I have updated the description now.
So incredible to see a tradition like this continued. What a beautiful home and incredible construction.
How much time was involved to make this house?
It too about six days to build but some of the materials had been gathered in preparation.
Calm and relaxing videos. Please write more music for future uploads as well. Thank you for beautiful videos and music.
There’s nothing “sad” about killing the trees to build these houses. The tree eventually returns its nutrients to the soil and another tree grows in its stead. Trees are a crop, just like a carrot.
Fair point. I felt a bit sad though that I had killed so many trees in asking them to build this house. Actually it was not as many as were chopped to build the treehouse that will be coming soon.
Those dead trees will be used for firewood. It is quite amazing to see how fast these sort of trees grow in a tropical climate.
@@NomadArchitecturewhy are you killing Papua peoples, Papuan peoples have any right to chop trees, You Westerner are their former Collonizer
l'm not sure if l missed, but how long these buildings last in this environment? Didn't they char in fire those poles which go into the ground?
Often on the steeper slopes I think the ground is pretty well drained and it does not rain as much as in lowland Papua. so no, no charring. They told me that they could last 5-10 years, but also they can be maintained. Part of the reason indeed that they are all being replaced with concrete huts.
@@NomadArchitecture Concrete huts? Oh, that's sad. How do the people feel about that change of events? IDK, maybe it's a good thing.
So fantastic that you were a big part of getting one of these houses back on the landscape!!
Amazing. Thank you so much for this documentary!
You don’t need a big account in the bank to buy materials!! No nails or bricks like most nomadic places in Iran they rely on UA-cam’s money for blocks of bricks,cement and they’re wasting money building houses and moving to other places to start building again!! God bless Papua New Guinean nomads ❤️😇👍👍👍
So cool, thank you so much for documenting this!
The video was excellent , as usual music ruins most videos as it did this one ! We the viewers just cannot get away from noxious music in our lives . We cannot watch a T.V. show , news show and especially commercials without noxious music . Enough already ! But it could have been a Great video !
Thanks, sorry you feel like that. You should bear in mind though that to record these buildings properly we use drones so cannot get good natural sound. I compose all the music myself and enjoy it. I am sorry you hate it, there are however lots of other channels out there you can watch.
@@NomadArchitectureUA-camrs that use drones dub the sound of it out. You attacking everyone commenting on your annoying background music just shows how ignorant YOU ARE! If you can't take constructive criticism you shouldn't be on the internet acting like a child.😂
Great! What a wonderful house!
Děkujeme, že natáčíte takové dokumenty, za chvíli nebue nikdo vědět, jak tito lidé žili. A my možná v minulosti také...
Thank you.
What happens to these structures after you're done filming??? I think it's incredible what can be done without modern machinery and I hope they are able to build more
With most of them there is a family member pretty keen to move in, which I love because we provide someone with a home. In this case we were talking about making it a guest house. They very kindly told me 'it is your house, you decide what to do with it', so I said I would try to send them some visitors. I should add this to the description so thanks for the prompt.
@@NomadArchitecture Well done!
Thank you for keeping us informed as to how vast the world is, and how diverse the cultural skills are. Westerners are often too stuck in the fast food drive through to appreciate how marvelous other ways also are.
Thanks so much. More to some soon.
Thanks for sharing these amazing videos! I have a question--in some of these videos, you are documenting the way that these indigenous people no longer do, but maybe the older living individuals might have either a few years ago, or even as much as 20-30 years ago. My question is this--when you get these groups to build these old traditional homes, do you pay (or incentive them) to do it, or are they willing to do it for free for the documentation of their history? I just find it amazing. I'm not sure if they used this home after is was built, but it is a curiosity I have. When these people groups move on from these old building methods, how do you motivate them to do it 'one more time'? Thank you.
I almost always pay them for their time. The only exceptions are where they, or maybe a local governor, invites us to make the record. But if I ask, I pay. The local going wage plus a bit more cos I am from a rich western nation. In fact a whole chain of people get paid and I am the only one that doesn't!
@@NomadArchitecture I appreciate this answer! Even if they don't understand today, hopefully at some point their children will appreciate the documentation of their old ways of constructing homes. Thanks for responding!
Aaaand yes take my money please. Thank you for this. Just found this channel and I love every bit of it, I'll be buying the book.
Thanks for your current screen
Life without plastic? A house built with no power tools or nails? Impossible in the West. Please don't let these skills die.
Amen 🙏
most poles are 'curved' for TENSION !!!! From when the first branch was cut, I wonder approximately how much build time was involved here ???? AMAZING WORK- - only un-natural tool I saw, was a hand saw !!!! Fabulous work from basic forest materials. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
i like the backgrownd musik. Its so melancholy and very suitable
Very good primative way of building their house made of wood
How in the hell is this primitive? Thats derogatory as fuck lol but what can you except from a westerner
Incredible skills.
Truly amazing!!
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เจ้าตัวเล็กเก่งมากๆเลยครับ
Thanks!
Good music too
Amazing craftsmanship, thank you for sharing.
Je me faisais la réflexion que la musique est vraiment agréable :)
Merci pour vos magnifiques vidéos.
oh very nice theme songi love it
Thanks
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Sawasdeekap, Kap Kun Thailand
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Amazing!!!!!!
Talented folks.
Bellísimo, felicidades por la empresa. Claro el reto será la manutención, pero sí ya lo saben hacer, eso no será problema. Y cierto, muchos jóvenes y niños trabajando en la construcción, así que mucho conocimiento transmitido 👏🏼👏🏼
This is so amazing. People in America need to be more work ready like these are.
Is it used by the Ahorens, or is it a community centre or something now? It's such a beautiful house, I hope locals get good use out of it.
That’s a beautiful home
look at these happiness in their faces, these are humans, not like us, the modern man.
h.m.
I love watching all your videos... Hey do you compensate these people that build these homes for your videos if you don't mind me asking thanks
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Crazy....
Papua Barat Indonesia❤
Amazing...beautiful!
Function---strengthening.
very good.
A suburban McMansion has nothing on such a perfectly adapted structure. And no mortage!
I noticed they were nothing to protect their hands or feet. I'm gobsmacked absolutely gobsmacked.
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Is there a reason for them being built so tall? Great video. Thank you for what you are doing
Various reasons. Often they were built on mountainsides and the back could be quite low. In flatter areas they said the air was better and it was defensive.
@@NomadArchitecture could also be a good storage area perhaps?
In NG it's often super humid or damp close to the ground and raising up catches breezes, makes it harder for snakes to install themselves and you get more of a view. Also, there are security concerns, there's a lot of tribal fighting sometimes and it's harder to rush a house with multiple people when it's set high. And as someone below said, you can use it for storage, drying food and firewood, other stuff. I live in rainy NZ and just built a place off the ground like this; I'm eternally grateful for the out-of-weather storage lol.
Great during flooding from heavy rains.
Having grown up in the tropics I can tell you it makes a huge difference to have the underneath of the house open to airflow, it keeps the whole house cooler. I used to sleep in a hammock (with a mozzie net) under our stilted house, it was the coolest place.
Lovely well skilled .when it rains will water get in from the Roof
They fixed the Problems from time to time and nothing is perfect & lasting. 👍💝🙏✝️
Super.🤝👍👍👍
Wandering
Amazing❤
wow impressive. Do they have any cattle? I thought they are building the lower part as storage place or to keep cattle's in there.
Beautiful people, beautiful house, beautiful video!
Form follows function. Functional form is beautiful form. Bending the poles prestresses the structure giving it stability and strength.
A couple of practical questions... How waterproof is that roof, in practice? The poles look well dried already, were they not green still?
The roofs are pretty waterproof except in monsoon conditions, but they are the first thing to go when modern materials are available as they don't last very long. Poles tend to come from a number of sources, some cut fresh, some have been cut and stored from when they are thinning plantations.
I have seen some stuff about the tree houses in Papua. Are you planning more stuff there? Cheers.
Yes, we got an absolutely amazing tree house. We are just discussing what to do about the nudity issues though!
@@NomadArchitecture UA-cam will demonetize the video? Things are getting very idiotic this days. Thank you for preserving this human knowledge!
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This is beautiful but i have to think if each one of us owns a house like this, then what would happen to the forest? 😮
Most of the thin trees are grown as a crop, and I think possibly less deforestation than takes place in the huge rainforests to clear them for the west's insatiable appetite for beef.
SUBHÂNALLAH
Curved for function in storms
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I think I would have built the (stairs) much earlier
Sí, nos encantaría saber cómo viven en esta casa, dónde estaría el fogón, por ejemplo? Y si, la parte de la palafitta sería utilizada como corrales para animales domésticos? Gracias mil
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What made them build in square shape?
where do they sleep before the house is built?
10:25 Steel building in the background 😂
Sadly 70% of the local houses here are now steel and concrete, and 100% had steel roofs, which is why we are running around the world trying to catch these things before they are gone!
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I hope they got paid nicely. Cool to see a 6 year old helping with the labor. What an inexpensive way to gain some real estate. 😢
We always negotiate good rates with everyone we work with. In most cases the local people get paid to build... and a free house at the end of the project. They were not sure who was going to take this one but there was talk of using it as a guest lodge to bring some longer term income into the village. So if you want to go and stay there....
So how did they make the door to work? I saw the bark and the posts across it, but do they put the posts across the bark every time, they want to close the door, or do they have some type of hinge?
They use the poles each time, but traditionally they did not close the door every time they went in and out, usually just at night.
slide to get down - pully to get things up. vertical pols on the stair hand rails on the out side so u dont get snaged on them
how do you control mosquitoes tho ?
Rumah= house
Kaki= leg
Seribu= a thousand
Question to you then. Does it actually translate as "millipede" - like the insect? in French mille = thousand and pied = feet and millipede is an insect (possibly an invertebrate I am not an biologist)
@@NomadArchitectureexactly, it's like Methaphor Centipede, cause we never actually count the exact number in house legs 😂.. Let's call this Local Wisdom from Papua
It's okay to kill all the trees for poles but "sad" to kill a tree for its bark. That's absurd!
Nama Rumah ini "Rumah Kaki Seribu"
Dibuat oleh Suku Atam dan Meyah di Pegunungan Arfak di Papua Barat.
Kami Bangsa Papua Barat sedang berjuang untuk kemerdekaan bangsa kami dari Kolonial Indonesia
Freedom for West Papua
Terima kasih semoga beruntung.
@@NomadArchitecturewah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
That's how Papua greeting to the Guest or Tourist
Space frames before Buckminster Fuller
Arfak in West Papua
Fantastic music. Some of it reminded me strongly of Chrono Trigger.
Anyone who likes my music gets a heart ❤
My comment disappeared, so I'll make it again. The construction was educational and highly interesting, but it would have been good to hear the birds and wind instead of music. The entirety of the western hemisphere is addicted to music music music music music music music music music music. They can't sit down to lunch without music music music music music music music music music music music music music.
Is there man-made music in that area? No
Are there birds and wind?
Yes, indeed but I like composing the music. Next time I can of course leave the constant buzz of the drones flying overhead and the wind, which actually just makes a dreadful racket in the microphones. Or maybe you would like to sponsor a sound technician to come with us on our next fieldwork? That would be really great thank you.
Airbnb...they can start a business.
What splinter?
These workers are definitely , NOT in a Labor Union !