Paiwan family houses are made of stone slabs, and in some areas, wood, bamboo, thatch or adobe are used as building materials. A typical Paiwan family house is based on a ladder-shaped platform. The floor, roof and walls of the house are made of slate. The settlements of the slate houses are mainly distributed in Sandimen, Majia, Taiwu, Laiyi, Chunri and other places in Pingtung. . Generally, common people's houses are divided into two parts: the interior of the house and the vestibule. The interior space of the house is horizontally long. There is a bed near the wall in the room, and the stove is set on the wall next to the entrance door.
Materials and furnishings of civilian houses
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Paiwan Slate Houses -
house material
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The southern part of the central mountain range where the Rukai live is a middle-altitude mountain area with a hot and humid climate, and the local clay slate is used as a building material. The West Rukai Group and the Lower Three Communities developed stone slab houses with stone slabs as building materials, which are warm in winter and cool in summer; the East Rukai Group used wood and bamboo as the main building materials because of the difficulty in obtaining stone slabs, and were affected by the relationship between ethnic groups in the area. And there are youth clubs appearing. Layout of doors, windows, vestibules and seats in stone houses Rukai houses only use wood for the beams and columns, and the rest of the main house, vestibule, and walls are paved with stone slabs.
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Rukai Slate Stairs
Stone House Furnishings
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Rukai Slate Architecture -
The body of the slate house is generally horizontally long, with two doors; the house is divided into three parts, with the bedroom and living room in the middle, the kitchen and warehouse on the left and right sides, and the aisle and tool storage on the other side. The slate houses of the Rukai ethnic group have been changed to reinforced concrete building materials due to the difficulty in collecting slate slabs and the time-consuming construction. The ethnic minorities have pasted slate slabs on the cement exterior walls to preserve the concept of traditional slate houses.
house class
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The size of the stone slab houses of the Rukai people varies according to their class. The leader’s house is the largest. In addition to having the right to carve the eaves, the front yard is also relatively spacious. The command platform where the clansmen gather, the gathering square is called kalatadrane. In addition to the family house, the Rukai people also have gazebos and working huts, which are built with stone slabs, wood and thatch. The gazebo is a place for leisure, and the working hut is a place for women to weave.
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Rukai Slate Stairs