Resilience Of Toraja Architecture Towards Sustainability Architecture

Architecture Department, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Jalan Perpustakaan 1, Padang Bulan, Medan, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: dwi.lindarto@usu.ac.id

Abstract

Indonesia has a cultural heritage of traditional architecture that is environmentally friendly and sensitive to sustainability issues. Toraja architecture, namely tongkonan (traditional house) and alang (traditional barn) are still widely standing. Toraja architecture is not value-free and vulnerable to social, economic, and cultural conditions, so this study aims to reveal how the Toraja people respond to adapt, transform to these influences for the sustainability of Toraja architecture in the future. This study is a type of revealing knowledge with qualitative case study method. Using the Miles and Huberman model analysis technique in the form of descriptive and pattern matching, the results of the study obtained that Toraja architecture has resilience in adapting and transforming to face current social, economic and cultural changes in the form of adaptability to current building material technology, carpentry skills, curved roof shape as Toraja identity, customary rules and adaptive-responsive abilities, social status symbols, low costs, customary preservation, are elements of resilience for the sustainability of alang architecture. The resilience of Toraja architecture is a model for sustainable development of Indonesian traditional architecture.