"Rumah Melayu Atap Lontik" or "Lontiok House" can usually be found in Kampar Regency"." It is called so because this house has a decoration on the front wall of the house in the form of a boat. When viewed from a distance, this house will look like boat houses that are usually made by the local residents. Besides being referred to as "lancing" and "pancalang", this traditional house is also called "lontik", since this house has a roof paring that is soaring upwards. This house is heavily influenced on the architecture of the Minangkabau "Rumah Gadang," since Kampar Regency is directly adjacent to the province of West Sumatra. A unique feature of this traditional house is that it has five stairsteps. The reason they chose the number five was because this is based on the Five Pillars of Islam. The shape of the pillars in this house also varies, there are rectangles, hexagons, heptagon, octagon and triangles. Each type of pole contained in this traditional house has meaning believed by the people of Riau. A rectangular pole can be interpreted as four corners of the wind, just like an octagon, and the hexagon symbolizes the number of pillars of Islam.