ABSTRACT
The attributes of the spatial grid are evident in the ordered layout of the houseyard and village. Instead of a central building surrounded by land, Balinese compounds normally consist of several pavilions in a roughly square territory, bounded by high walls often in an advanced state of dilapidation. According to Tan (from whose useful discussion the following is partly drawn), this residential area may be divided conceptually into nine smaller squares, each with its appropriate function defined by the directions. The resulting pattern reduplicates the Nawa Sanga, in which the interstitial segments can be seen as an elaboration on the major axes.
