Lumbung
Sasak · Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara
Plate T.12
Sasak
Mataram · 8.6° S
Computed from the rules
The elevation, drawn from the model’s parts at its default rules.
- Guard overhang
- Posts
- Store height
- Store floor
- Eave
- Hood bands
A lumbung is the Sasak rice granary: a small box on four or six posts under a curved thatched hood whose edge falls below the floor it shelters. It is the first building in this project that is not a house — nobody lives in it, there is no storey a person could stand up in, and in a Sasak yard it is often the most carefully made thing standing. Its most distinctive detail is not for people either: a broad disc on each post just below the floor, with exactly one job — stopping rats. The sun in this model is computed for Lombok, 8.58° S and 116.32° E.
This pack uses more Indonesian than any other here, and that is deliberate. Only the word “lumbung” is used as a local term; the rat guard and the parts of the hood have Sasak names the author is not confident enough of to print, so all of them are named in Indonesian — the joglo pack’s policy, applied more widely here because the sourcing is thinner. And the most consequential figures are the weakest: the disc’s radius and the post’s section together produce the overhang that stops a rat, and both are the author’s. The hood’s curve is a chosen shape rather than a fit to any measurement. There is no carving, though a Sasak lumbung is carved.
Orientation
A lumbung stands in a yard or in a row beside the meeting ground, and what fixes its bearing is the opening where rice goes in — it faces where the work is done, rather than a compass point, a river, a mountain or the sea. It is the only building in this project whose orientation is set by a task. This model puts the opening on −Z. There is still no control that turns the building.
Provenance
- Measured0
- Canon6
- Interpolated32
This bar moves as real surveys are wired in. That movement is the project's progress metric.