THK Application at Hotel (7)

THK Commendation on Space Division

In my previous 4th edition article I cited one invisible way concerning harmony and balance relationships in Bali signaled within Tri Hita Karana concepts (THK) this is through cultural arrangement development which contains three essential parts that are related with the concept of luan-teben (sacral-profane).

The three traditional Balinese space divisions are namely tri mandala; tri (three) and mandala (zone/area). Tri mandala means three zonal divisions, which are utama mandala (most sacred zone or in Balinese term called jeroan) as the worshipping site; madya mandala (the middle/center zone or jaba tengah) for hall building; nista mandala (the most profane outer zone or it called jaba sisi, teba, lebuh or telajakan).
These three zonal areas of tri mandala concept are classified again into the nine zones namely sanga mandala ( sanga = nine, mandala = zone). Within the space division of traditional village in Bali, tri mandala and sanga mandala were inflected into the sacred zone /worshipping site; settlement zone or society union; and activity zone.
Within micro scope, for example, the hotel area, as the parhyangan aspect is the element of atman/soul or human revitalized tonic (hotel management, costumer, supplier, competitor), which come from God/Paramatman, and lays on a worshipping site around the hotel’s area. So, parhyangan is not a sacred physical construction, but atman that comes from Paramatman and lies at a worshipping site. Pawongan is the hotel management human element (owner, management, and employee), costumer, supplier, and competitor – not the hotel’s building. The palemahan aspect is elements of sarira, which is directed to all hotel zone (land, construction, plants, animals, other physical media and equipments.
Space division and arrangement, or hotel’s territory, for example, refers to the concept of sanga mandala signals that 1/9 (one per nine) for sacred zone (SZ); 5/9 (five per nine) for occupied zone/construction zone (OZ); and the rest 3/9 (three per nine) for open-green space (OGS).
This zonal division based on tri mandala and sanga mandala are horizontally characterized, whilst the vertical one using the rule of tri angga (tri = three, angga = part). Utamaning angga (the upper/most sacred part); madyaning angga (middling part); nistaning angga (most profane/under zone). If assumed as a human body, the head is utamaning angga, the body is madyaning angga, and the foot is nistaning anggga.
This vertical space division was seemly to anticipate the storied building by putting the sacred zone on the upper part; the occupied zone in the center; and the activity zone at the lower space. Thus, whether tri mandala and sanga mandala, moreover tri angga are the motivating mediums to create harmonic relationships between humans and God, among human beings, human and nature as stated within the THK concept.
(BTN/B. Ashrama)