TRANSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE OLD AGE IN JULAH VILLAGE, KECAMATAN TEJAKULA, KABUPATEN BULELENG, BALI

One of Bali Local Government Policy is Vernacular Village Tourism which focused on villages with beautiful and interesting natural views along with its unique dwelling pattern, vernacular architecture, and the dwellers socio-culture. As its beneficial roles to develop one region economic aspects, this program assumed to be having negative impacts particularly to the built environment. Furthermore, the vernacular dwelling unit which had turned to tourism area tends to change both, physically and socially (especially people way of dwelling and architectural style). Moreover, the attitude and behavior of inhabitants haddiffer caused by the short term promising income of tourism impact. Based on the phenomena, this research aims to study the so calledumahtua(vernacular house) architecture transition which held in Julah vernacular village, Tejakula, Buleleng Municipal, Bali. The determined research location depends on consideration if Julah is one of vernacular village in Buleleng municipal which had developed as tourism object by the local authority. Other consideration because of the determinationcould threat the sacred of ancient temples in Julah. More actual fact that the government determination could threat the sanctity in which caused by dwellers who had developed their dwelling into homestay and built environment project whom initiated by the government. Research designed as qualitative method which result in four formulas. First, the settlement pattern forming aspect is stickto the original pattern with the mountain, manifestation of PuraDesa/Bale Agung (primary temple), as the orientation axis located in the south and setra/cemetery in thenorth as the less worth space. Second, umah tua element, i.e.: Angkul-angkul, Paon, Sanggah Kemulan, and Bale Sakanem/Bale Jajar or Bale Sakaroras/Bale Jahit/Bale Gedeare still exist nowadays in each dwelling unit. Third, umah tua layout mainly had changed with the addition of contemporary building, such as: kitchen and bath room/wc which located in line with Paon (kitchen) in the north. Fourth, umah tua physical aspects,i.e.: form, dimension, structure and construction, and decorative did not change significantly. The transformation occurred in use of building materials, i.e.: floor, wall, and roof which affect the building color and texture.