Tongkonan
Toraja · Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi
Plate T.01
Toraja
Rantepao · 3.0° S
Computed from the rules
The elevation, drawn from the model’s parts at its default rules.
- Body length
- Body width
- Underfloor height
- Front prow tip
- Eave oversail
- Ijuk courses
A tongkonan is the family house of the Toraja people, in the highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Every part named on this screen — tulak somba, a’riri, kale banua, ijuk, pa’ssura — is named in Toraja, and the words are used as they are because they are the names of the things rather than decoration. The sun in this model is computed for Rantepao, 2.97° S and 119.90° E.
There is no single canonical tongkonan. Regional and lineage variation is real, and this model is one house the rules permit — not the house.
Orientation
The house lies north–south with the front, ulunna banua, facing north. That is a rule, not a choice, so there is no control that turns the building. Only the camera rotates.
Provenance
- Measured0
- Canon8
- Interpolated54
This bar moves as real surveys are wired in. That movement is the project's progress metric.