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

• visser-1989 · ethnography

  Visser, L. E., My Rice Field is My Child: Social and Territorial Aspects of Swidden Cultivation in Sahu, Eastern Indonesia (Foris, Dordrecht, 1989).

• depdikbud-1985 · reference

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

• yasin-2018 · reference

  Yasin, dkk., “Sasadu: Rumah Adat Suku Sahu di Halmahera Barat”, dalam kajian arsitektur tradisional Maluku Utara, 2018.

• anthropometry · none

  Ukuran tubuh manusia yang ditetapkan penulis, bukan dari sumber tentang Sahu. Kunci yang sama dipakai pak Bali, Waruga, Ngada, Atoni, dan Rimba.

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. 1bayLength2.40 mlength of the hall
2. 2roofRise0.64 mheight of the ridge
3. 3standingHeight0.32 mhow far the highest opening makes you stoop
4. 4eaveHeight0.29 mheight of the ridge
5. 5headHigh0.28 mthe highest opening
6. 6floorHeight0.09 mheight of the ridge
7. 7padHeight0.05 mheight of the ridge
8. 8headStep0.04 mthe lowest opening

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
  Every tenon contained in its mortise

  13 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

  45 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
  The openings differ, and they differ in order

  3 openings, from 1.42 m and stepping down 0.11 m each time, each on its own side. The Maluku baileo checks the exact opposite — there several things of one kind must be the same, and the refusal to distinguish is the statement. Here the distinction is, and it is said in centimetres over somebody’s head.

• pass
  Everybody bows, including whoever the highest opening was made for

  The highest opening is 1.42 m, still under the 1.62 m of a standing adult; the lowest is still over the 1.05 m of a stooping one. The bow here is not what is demanded of the low-ranking but what the building asks of everybody.

• pass
  There is no wall and no door leaf

  Zero walls and zero door leaves: the space under the roof is open on all four sides, and what distinguishes people is the height of the opening they come in by. A hall that distinguishes with headroom is an entirely different thing from a hall that distinguishes with a lock.

• pass
  Its length is the number of people who eat in it

  5 bays × 6 people = 30 sitting down at once, along 12.0 m. A bade’s lattice also comes from a headcount, and that one counts people carrying; this counts people sitting down to eat.

• pass
  Every part declares the dimensions it came from

  45 parts, every one tagged. By least-sourced input: 0 measured, 0 canon, 45 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.

Raising the guests’ opening is the ordinary courtesy anybody would think of: people arrive carrying dishes for a feast the whole village eats, and a taller opening is easier to get through. No part of the building objects — the hall still holds everybody, the openings still differ in order, there is still no wall and no door leaf. What stops being true is that everybody bows. Past the height of a standing adult the highest opening is one somebody walks through upright, and the gesture that was asked of everyone becomes a gesture asked only of the people whose openings are lower. The building has not got worse; it has started saying something else.

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.