Torogan
- TOROGAN
- The Torogan is the ancestral house of the upper-class Maranao in the Lanao Region of Mindanao. It is the dwelling place of the datu along with his wives and children. There could not be any house larger than torogan of the datu within the sultanate, for this signifies rank, prestige and wealth. The existing torogans were built by the community and the slaves for the datu in 1800s.
- ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTERISTICS
- The windows of torogan are slits and richly framed in wood panels with okir designs located in front of the house. The communal kitchen is half a meter lower than the main house is both used for cooking and eating. The distinct high gable roof of the torogan, thin at the apex and gracefully flaring out to the eaves, sits on a huge structures enclosed by slabs of timber and lifted more than two meters above the ground by a huge trunk of a tree that was set on a rock. The end floor beams lengthen as panolongs the seemed to lift up the whole house. The torogan is suffused with decorations. There were diongal at the apex of the roof, also an intricately carved tinai a walai, okir designs in the floor, on windows and on panolongs. There were also brightly colored weaves or malongs hanging from the rafters, it was hung up using ropes around a particular territory for privacy. The house was built to sway
- ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES of Maranao Torogan house:
- The most noticeable feature the torogan is the panolong, wing- like house beam with pako rabong or fern or naga serpent motif. of a a or These are ends of the floor beams that project and splay out like triangular butterfly wings on the façade and side elevations. The motifs are chiseled in high
- ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
- The interior of the house is a cavernous hall with no permanent wall partitions. Supporting the kingpost of the highridged roof is the rampatan or tinai a walai central beams considered as the intestines of the house. What serves as the ceiling is a cloth suspended from the rafters to absorb the heat from the roof. A carabao horn ornament at the roof apex of the rumah adat in Batak, Indonesia is distinguish from the Maranao dongal. To asses the torogan’s strength and
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