Architecture of Madagascar
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The architecture of Madagascar is unique in Africa, bearing strong resemblance to the Maritime Southeast Asian construction norms and methods of Southern Borneo from which the earliest inhabitants of
Typical brick houses with columns and west-facing veranda, near Antananarivo
This house in South Kalimantan bears many of the iconic construction features brought from Borneo to Madagascar two thousand years ago: wood plank walls, piles to raise the house from the ground and a steeply sloping roof topped with crossed gable beams to form "roof horns."
The most traditional coastal style: houses with thatched roofing of ravinala on low piles in Sambava
Woven bamboo walls, plank roofing
Zafimaniry
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The Zafimaniry are a sub-group of the Betsileo ethnic group of Madagascar. They live in the forested mountains of the southern central highlands southeast of Ambositra, between the neighboring Betsile
Zafimaniry woman drying rice
Zafimaniry village
Traditional Zafimaniry wooden house