Bahay Kubo.

• “Bahay” is a tagalog word for house while “Kubo” is from the Spanish cubo meaning cube.
• 3 distinct Horizontal Division:

  ·        Slits or post

  ·        One room upper living unit

  ·        Steep roof
• Materials:

  ·        Whole bamboo

  ·        Bamboo strips

  ·        Palm leaves for roof

  ·        Bamboo strips or palm leaves for walls
• Sibi (Eaves) A thatch roof that extends beyond the wall.
• Pasibi (lean to roof) A single slope extension of a gable or hip type roof.
• Banguerahan elevated counter protecting beyond the kitchen wall.
• Sagang (railing) A waist level railing.
• Hagdan (stair) Main access to the house.
• Balangkas (Framework) Skeletal structural element of a roof or wall.
• Batalan (Washing Area) For kitchen and as a bathroom.
• Abuhan (Cooking Area) Fireplace with a stone stove.
• Bulwagan (Main house) used as a living, dining, and sleeping area.
• Silong stockroom.
• Bubong (roof) Steep thatch roof made from bamboo cogon grass, anahaw leaves or nipa shingles.
• Nipa (Nypa Fruiticans) a tropical palm with a short trunk and broad pinnate leaves.
• Sahig (Flooring) Bamboo strips laid perpendicular to floor joist.
• Dingding (Wall)

  ·        Bamboo latticework (sala sala)

  ·        Interlaced bamboo (Amakan)

  ·        Woven bamboo (sawali)

  ·        Woven coconut leaves (Sulirap)
• Haligi (post) A post buried on the ground is called Binaon (buried) and a post set up above a stone slab is referred to as pinatong (placed on).
• Yawi (Main beam) a whole bamboo combined altogether by the means of rattan strips.
• Patukuran (secondary beam) a whole bamboo laid over the main beam to carry the floor joist (soleras).
• Soleras (Floor joist) 12 to 15 inches over the secondary beam.
• Gililan (Floor sill) to hold and support the walls.