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Every dimension the house is generated from is below, with its class and its citation. This is the project’s honesty layer, and it is given a room of its own because a smooth 3D render implies a precision the sources do not have.

The dimensions

DimensionValueClassCitation
Width of the lowest floor, across. It is the smallest floor in the whole building — the only building in this project of which that is true.baseWidth9.60 mIf 20% out: 1.92 mInterpolatedNo source
Length of the lowest floor, along the ridge.baseLength12.40 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Height of one storey, floor to floor.storeyHeight2.70 mIf 20% out: 2.16 mInterpolatedNo source
How far each floor projects past the storey below it, on all four sides. This is the figure that inverts this building’s silhouette against the other twenty-five here.oversail0.55 mIf 20% out: 0.66 mInterpolatedNo source
Depth of the hollow in the stone the foot of a post sits in. Without it a post only touches its stone on one plane, and a joint whose members do not enter each other holds nothing.padSocket0.05 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
How far a pale can reach out from the frame of posts. Each storey projects further than the one below it, so the longest arm is always the topmost one: this building’s limit is set at its top. It is a carpenter’s figure rather than a rank figure — and because the two are independent, a projection demanded by standing can pass what an arm can carry.paleReach1.95 mIf 20% out: 0.39 mInterpolatedNo source
Section of a bracket arm.paleSection0.14 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Spacing of the brackets along one side.paleSpacing1.90 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Section of a principal post.postSection0.20 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Height of the stone under a post. Nothing is buried: the whole frame stands on stones and is held by its own weight.padHeight0.30 mIf 20% out: 0.06 mInterpolatedNo source
The outer stones are set a little wider than their posts, to spread the load of a building that leans outward.padSpread1.35Moves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Depth of a floor beam.floorDepth0.18 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Thickness of a floor board.deckThickness0.05 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Thickness of a wall board.wallThickness0.06 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
How far the wall stands inside the edge of the floor, so the edge of each storey reads as a line.wallInset0.12 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Width of the projecting room at the top against the topmost floor.anjunganShare0.45Moves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Height of the projecting room at the top.anjunganHeight1.90 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Rise of the ridge above the topmost wall.roofRise2.90 mIf 20% out: 0.58 mInterpolatedNo source
Length of the ridge against the length of the topmost floor.ridgeShare0.40Moves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Overhang of the shingle roof past the topmost floor — the widest projection in a building every storey of which already projects.eaveOversail0.85 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Thickness of the shingle covering.roofThickness0.09 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Distance of the fortress wall from the house. This is the only building in the collection standing inside a fortification, and the wall is part of the site rather than scenery.bentengRadius26.00 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Height of the coral-stone fortress wall.bentengHeight2.60 mMoves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Depth of the tested joint engagement, as a share of the smaller member.jointEngagement0.30Moves no measurementInterpolatedNo source
Every storey projects past the one below it on all four sides, so the largest floor in this building is its highest and the smallest is the one standing on the ground. No other building here has a floor larger than the one under it — several have roofs that oversail, which is a different thing — and not one pack ever stated that as a rule. This one states the opposite.widensUpward1Moves no measurementCanonArsitektur Tradisional Daerah Sulawesi Tenggara (Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, 1985).
The projection of each storey is carried on pale arms, and how many there are is the household’s standing: four is the highest, three the next, and a house entitled to none does not project at all. So on this building rank decides how far you may build outward — the only pack here whose social rule sets a cantilever.paleCarryTheOverhang4Moves no measurementCanonZahari, A. M., Sejarah dan Adat Fiy Darul Butuni (Buton), jilid I–III (Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, 1977).
Zero iron. The whole frame is pegged and wedged. The rumoh Aceh uses no iron either, and the two are worth reading together: there the absence answers ground that moves, here it answers a building that has to be able to work a little while leaning out.noIron0Moves no measurementCanonSchoorl, P., Masyarakat, Sejarah dan Budaya Buton (Djambatan, Jakarta, 2003).
Who may be on which storey is fixed, and the top is the sultan’s own. The rule is declared and not checked: a floor forbidden to somebody looks exactly like a floor that is not — the same reason the Baduy pack gives for its unprovable prohibitions.floorsAreRanked1Moves no measurementCanonZahari, A. M., Sejarah dan Adat Fiy Darul Butuni (Buton), jilid I–III (Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, 1977).

Bibliography

  • zahari-1977 · reference

    Zahari, A. M., Sejarah dan Adat Fiy Darul Butuni (Buton), jilid I–III (Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, 1977).

  • depdikbud-1985 · reference

    Arsitektur Tradisional Daerah Sulawesi Tenggara (Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, 1985).

  • schoorl-2003 · ethnography

    Schoorl, P., Masyarakat, Sejarah dan Budaya Buton (Djambatan, Jakarta, 2003).

Which of these matters most

Nearly every dimension on this page is the author’s own. What the provenance bar does not say is whether that matters. Each row below is computed by rebuilding the house: one dimension is pushed 20%, and the house is measured to see how far it follows. Nothing is estimated — the figures are the difference between two runs of the generator.

  1. 1storeyHeight2.16 mheight of the ridge
  2. 2baseWidth1.92 mwidth of the ground floor
  3. 3oversail0.66 mwidth of the topmost floor
  4. 4roofRise0.58 mheight of the ridge
  5. 5paleReach0.39 mreach left in the topmost arm
  6. 6padHeight0.06 mheight of the ridge

If only one dimension could be surveyed, this is the one. This is sensitivity, not uncertainty: it shows what moves, not how likely the value is to be wrong. The 20% is itself the author’s choice.

Invariants

There is no measured drawing yet, so correctness rests on structural truth. These checks fail the build.

  • pass
    Bilateral symmetry about Symmetric about the mid-plane, z = 0 — including every projection, which reaches equally on all four sides

    536 points; largest mirror deviation 0.00 mm.

  • pass
    Every tenon contained in its mortise

    11 pasak, takik and tumpu joints; every one engaged.

  • pass
    No joint spans more than one stage

    Every joint engages two parts from the same stage or from consecutive ones.

  • pass
    Stage ordering, and nothing below ground

    66 parts, every one bearing on something already standing or on the ground.

  • pass
    Mesh integrity: indices, triangles, normals

    6 triangles; indices in range, none degenerate, every normal unit length.

  • pass
    Every storey is wider than the one below it

    From 9.60 m on the ground to 12.90 m at the top, 1.34 times over. The largest floor in this building is its highest. No other building here has floors that grow as they rise, and not one of them ever stated that as a rule.

  • pass
    Nothing projects further than the arm carrying it can reach

    Each storey projects 0.55 m past the one below, so the topmost floor stands 1.65 m outside the frame against an arm reaching 1.95 m — 4 arms to a side. What sets the projection is rank; what sets the reach is carpentry; and nothing relates the two.

  • pass
    The arms are as many as the rank allows, and they actually carry

    24 arms on 3 projecting storeys, 4 to a side. The Bugis saoraja’s timpa laja also states rank and carries nothing, so it can lie; these hold the building up, so a claimed standing has to actually be built.

  • pass
    Every part declares the dimensions it came from

    66 parts, every one tagged. By least-sourced input: 0 measured, 0 canon, 66 interpolated.

  • skipped
    Checked against a measured drawing of a real house

    Skipped. No measured drawing has been wired in, so there is nothing to compare against. This check will not be made to pass by weakening it.

What a check is preventing

Ten green rows are not a reason to believe anything. So one check is run against a house built to break it, and what is printed below is that check’s own verdict rather than a description of it.

Reaching further out is the point of this building, and adding to it breaks nothing else: every storey is still wider than the one below, the arms are still there in the number the rank allows, the frame is still plumb, the roof still covers. What runs out is the arm. Every projection accumulates from the same frame, so the topmost floor is always the furthest out and the topmost arm always the longest — and past a point it is longer than a piece of timber leaning out of a post can be. The limit lands at the top, which is the storey that matters most.

The house as built

pass1.65 m / 1.95 mtop floor outside the frame · reach of an arm

Each storey projects 0.55 m past the one below, so the topmost floor stands 1.65 m outside the frame against an arm reaching 1.95 m — 4 arms to a side. What sets the projection is rank; what sets the reach is carpentry; and nothing relates the two.

Rear prow raised to 0.67 m

fail2.01 m / 1.95 mtop floor outside the frame · reach of an arm

storey 4 stands 2.01 m outside the frame, and an arm reaches 1.95 m

The second house is never rendered. It is built during the build, failed, and thrown away.

This bar moves as real surveys are wired in. That movement is the project's progress metric.