LOCAL WISDOM, 14 (1): 32 - 47, 2022 Local Wisdom Scientific Online Journal ISSN: 2086-3764 Rebuilding Tazo Traditional House East Nusa Tenggara by Excavating Collective Memories Restore the Memories in an Extinct Village Mohammad Resha Khambali 1* , Yulia Nurliani Lukito 1 1 University of Indonesia, Indonesia Corresponding Author: reshakhambali@gmail.com Abstract Keywords: collective memory; disconnected generation,; documentation; Tazo; traditional house; vernacular architecture Traditional life in Indonesia is significantly related to spoken culture from the older generation to the young age. This condition unconsciously shows a risk of void space when there is a disconnected generation. Only a few written documentation and drawings exist for Vernacular Architecture in Indonesia or Architecture Nusantara. Tazo is one of several villages in Riung district, Flores island, in Nusa Tenggara Timur province, Indonesia. The current condition of the traditional house of Tazo is extinct, and there are no physical traces anymore. In this paper, we will show the excavation of the traditional house of the Tazo with the method of searching for data through oral interviews with existing traditional elders who have experienced living in their traditional house before. Step by step, the shape of this traditional house is illustrated architecturally and can be recognized again by the memory of the traditional elders of Kampung Tazo. DOI: Article History Received Accepted Published Oct 05, 2021 Nov 17, 2021 Jan 15, 2022 @ 2017 The Authors. Published by GKAK UNMER Malang 1. Introduction Tazo is a village in the northern part of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, which has encountered the extinction of traditional houses in the last three decades. Tazo's traditional house is no longer exists and has no record ranging from photos, writings, buildings, or any tangible things, but this is not the end of history in Kampong Tazo. Naturally, in our condition, documentation in physical form has a higher value than non- physical records that can be lost at any time. It turns out that today the only remaining records of the traditional Tazo house are the people's memories from generation to generation. The Tazo House will only be a fairy tale if it is not physically documented soon for the younger generation. Tazo peoples and the others concerned with the traditional architecture of Indonesia must collect the record of the Tazo traditional house in a data set to be valuable. The data sets of Kampong Tazo could significantly impact the architectural historiography of vernacular architecture in Indonesia. Typically, in carrying out an architectural building, data in drawings, calculations, or other processed data sets will be [32]