Tirta Dharma Weaving House, is representation from Huma Betang in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. as an architectural respond the present challenges

Traditional architecture is basically grown up from community’s needs where the architecture that comes from a condition and challenge background on an environmental and social surrounding need to be studied more because it has a lay out of space which is not change from generation to generation. Furthermore at this time many changes, especially changes in lifestyle due to the advancement of knowledge and technology, will affect the development or changes in the function of spaces because of the increasingly complex needs. Traditional architecture can almost be said can no longer respond to the challenges of the situation, due primarily to the functions that do not evolve from time to time. There is an interesting phenomenon lately in Indonesia, where the architects try to answer the challenges as mentioned above. One of the architects realized the importance of preservation in traditional architecture is Yori Antar. Tirta Dharma Weaving House in Sintang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia is an architectural respond that lifts local identity of the Dayak Iban Long House or so-called Huma Bentang by Yori Antar. In this Weaving House, the functions are different from those at Dayak Iban Long House. Long House serves as a residence while the Weaving House are supporting Dayak Iban’s weaving preservation activities : both as a gallery and place to learn and produce weaving. Although it has a different function, the Long House’s principles are At the end, this paper will reveal how the transformation are designed by Yori Antar in completing this Weaving House project: starting from Long House as a residential into a weaving house, and how both transformations in culture and in local wisdom and identity meet the present challenges and perform as a contemporary architecture without changing the essence, that also called contemporary vernacular architecture. Therefore, the discussion wholly will be about a study done by Yori Antar, where the original idea to update ‘the old’ will be an answer to the challenges of the needs as mentioned abov