Fale (architecture)
A fale is understood as a seamless, traditional type of Samoan residential and meeting house, originally built without the use of metal , which has become a symbol of national cultural identity.
Manufacture and types
Tufuga fau fale was the name of the old guild of construction professionals who were called in to build a fale. Types of fales were the "big house" fale tele and the "little house" faleo'o . The fale tele was usually round, but more recently it has also been built on a right-angled floor plan: It serves as a place for important consultations, festivals and ceremonies. The Faleo'o, on the other hand, is elongated and less richly decorated and is used for residential purposes or as a beach house. There are also simply designed fales as kitchen houses.
Beach fale
More recently, faleo'o on the beach are often rented out to tourists as beach fale . Otherwise, the huts are used to store dragon boats , as well as storage sheds or beach huts.
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Beach fale on Manono
Equipment of a beach fale
View from a beach fale
See also
- Maneaba
- Wharenui of the Māori
Individual evidence
- ^ Samoa Tourism Authority, How stuff works . Archived from the original on December 27, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 24, 2018. How Stuff Works, http://travel.howstuffworks.com/american-samoa-national-park-ga2.htm
literature
- Te'o Tuvale: An Account of Samoan History up to 1918. Manuscript printing . Chapter: The Samoan House. O le Pale Samoa. ( Digitized version ).
- Peter Trebsche (Ed.): The built space. Building blocks of an architectural sociology of premodern societies. Waxmann, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8309-2285-8 , in particular pp. 443a, 457a.
- FJH Grattan: An Introduction to Samoan Custom. McMillan, Papakura, New Zealand 1948. Reprint: 1985, ISBN 0-908712-13-8 ( digitized ).
