Living Craft Infrastructure: A Neo-Vernacular Tri-Ethnic Gallery Framework for Makassar
Keywords:
Handicraft gallery, neo-vernacular architecture, Bugis–Makassar–Toraja, living museum, creative economyAbstract
Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja crafts embody material knowledge, social memory, and economic value, yet their exhibition, production, education, promotion, and conservation remain spatially dispersed. This study develops a design framework for an integrated South Sulawesi Handicraft Gallery that represents the three traditions equitably through a neo-vernacular architecture responsive to Makassar’s coastal climate. A research-through-design method combined document and literature review, cultural-object mapping, site observation, visitor projection, user and activity analysis, room-program reconciliation, precedent synthesis, and iterative translation of cultural and environmental principles. The internally consistent visitor series rose from 3.50 million in 2022 to 6.29 million in 2025. A linear model projects 15.89 million citywide visitors in 2035; a two-percent attraction capture corresponds to about 317,800 annual or 871 daily visits, supporting an initial peak capacity of approximately 1,000 visitors per day. The reconciled program assigns 14,429.2 m² within a 16,721 m² gross envelope. The design combines a communal plaza, three parallel cultural zones, visible workshops, learning spaces, collection-care rooms, separate logistics, woven shading screens, cross-ventilation, vegetation, and targeted environmental control. The framework positions the gallery as living cultural infrastructure connecting heritage stewardship, experiential learning, artisan visibility, and the creative economy.
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