Sources

Sources

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

Bibliography

• depdikbud-sulut · reference

  Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Arsitektur Tradisional Daerah Sulawesi Utara (Proyek Inventarisasi dan Dokumentasi Kebudayaan Daerah, Jakarta).

• schouten-1998 · ethnography

  Schouten, M. J. C., Leadership and Social Mobility in a Southeast Asian Society: Minahasa, 1677–1983 (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1998).

• waterson-1990 · ethnography

  Waterson, R., The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia (Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1990).

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. 1bayLength2.16 mlength of the body
2. 2halfWidth1.36 mwidth of the body
3. 3wallHeight0.50 mheight of the ridge
4. 4ridgeRise0.48 mheight of the ridge
5. 5verandaDepth0.42 mdepth of the veranda
6. 6floorHeight0.34 mheight of the floor
7. 7stoneHeight0.06 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 long mid-plane, z = 0

  1072 points; largest mirror deviation 0.00 mm.

• pass
  Every tenon contained in its mortise

  20 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

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

• pass
  Mesh integrity: indices, triangles, normals

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

• pass
  The sequence runs backwards: nothing is removed while something rests on it

  108 parts come off one at a time from the last one placed, and not one of them is still carrying anything when its turn arrives. The other sixteen buildings in this project are only required to go up; this one is required to come down as well.

• pass
  No member longer than what can be carried

  The longest member is 6.80 m against the 7.20 m the road allows. The frame is a set of pieces sized to travel rather than a frame sized to the building.

• pass
  Every joint is a peg, and a peg comes out again

  20 joints, every one a peg. The only pack in this project with a single joint kind for a reason that is not a shortfall: undoing a joint here may not break it.

• pass
  The stairs at the front: two equal ones, or one in the middle

  Two stairs, one at each end of the veranda, and the pair is equal. The veranda becomes a passage across the front, and neither stair is the main way in.

• pass
  Shingle courses lap with no bare band

  26 courses from eave to ridge. The shingles are the part least likely to travel: what is sold is the frame.

• pass
  Every part declares the dimensions it came from

  108 parts, every one tagged. By least-sourced input: 0 measured, 0 canon, 108 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.

Widen the house and by every ordinary measure it improves: more room, the same frame, the same joints, the same roof. The only thing that stops being true is that its bearers fit on a lorry — and a woloan house that cannot be carried away is a woloan house that has stopped being one. Seventeen buildings, seventeen rules that cannot be carried out, and only this one fails at its ability to leave.

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.