Implementation of the souraja house façade on the composition of the government building façade in Palu city

Abstract

As the capital city of Central Sulawesi Province, Palu has built various public buildings, especially buildings belonging to the local government, which are provided to serve the population’s needs. However, when examined more deeply, it can be seen that several government-owned public buildings were designed not to pay attention to the environmental conditions in which the building was erected both socially, culturally and the composition of the building’s constituents. One of them is the facade or the front of the building. The Souraja house, a traditional house of the Kaili tribe, which currently exists in Palu City, should become a reference for the shape of public buildings, both in overall form and only in the form of the facade composition. This study uses a rationalistic approach, which sees the truth from empirical conditions and arguments as a part of thinking construction. The rationalistic research design departs from the theoretical framework (Grand Theory). The source of the Grand theory raised in this study comes from the Souraja House building, which is the work of the traditional house of the Kaili tribe, which currently still exists in Palu City. The results of this study indicate that the three parameters of the components that make up the facade of the Souraja Traditional house, which are used in analyzing and discussing the beginning of government buildings in Palu City, are not 100% implemented, namely on the raised floor but no longer in the form of a stilt building. While the two parameters of the composition of the facade of the Souraja Traditional house used in analyzing and discussing the face of government buildings in Palu City are 100% implemented.