HOA MODULE 4.1

• Early Philippine Shelters

  • Caves
  • Lean-to
  • Tree houses
• • earliest form of human habitation.

  Prehistoric cave shelters
• • was the site to first establish the presence of humans in the Philippines during the Pleistocene.

  TABON CAVE
• Used by the Pinatubo Aeta; has no living platform; forms two sloping sides with one or both ends left open.

  HAWONG
• Lean-to of the Agta of Palanan.

  Constructed along the principle of tripod.

  PINANAHANG
• Built as safeguard from night-time ambushes by tribal enemies or wild predators.

  KALINGA TREE HOUSE
• Pre-Colonial Vernacular Architecture

  • Builders are non-professional; they are typically the owners/users too;
  • Use of natural materials abundant in their locality;
  • Actual process of construction involves intuitive thinking;
  • Association of symbolism and meaning;
  • Styles are specific to an ethnic domain.
• Archetypal tropical characteristics of Southeast Asian domestic architecture:

  • An elevated living floor
  • Buoyant rectangular volume
  • Raised pile foundation
  • Voluminous thatched roof
• Traditional Isneg house.

  • Roof suggests an inverted hull.
  • Exposed floor joists outside suggest the profile of a boat.
  • Datag or Xassaran, main section.
  • Tamuyon, slightly raised platform on three sides.


  BINURON
• Finaryon. Traditional Kalinga house.

  • Octagonal in plan; exterior features are not strongly defined.
  • Dataggon, central sections
  • Sipi, slightly elevated side sections


  BINAYON
• Traditional Bontoc house, for the affluent.


  FAY-U
• dwelling for the poor

  KATYUFONG
• residence of widows or unmarried old women: can also be called katyufong

  KOL-LOB
• Traditional Bontoc house in Sagada.

  INAGAMANG
• Upper level granary


  AGAMANG
• general term for a family residence.

  AFONG
• council house and dormitory of the young and old unmarried males.

  ATO
• female dormitory

  ULOG OR OLOG
• Fale. Traditional Ifugao house, for the affluent.


  BALE
• rat guard

  HALIPAN
• more temporary


  Allao
• Traditional Kankanai house, for the wealthy.


  BINANGIYAN

  
• Traditional Ivatan house.

  • Thick thatch, walls mortared with stone or plastered with white lime.
  • Wooden post and lintel framework is implanted in the walls.


  RAKUH

  
• Traditional lowland dwelling, northern and central regions.

  BAHAY KUBO

  
• Interior Spaces

  Primary spaces

  • Living room
  • Kitchen and service area (dapogan, banggerahan, and batalan)

  Secondary spaces

  • Dining
  • Silong and balkon
  • Bedrooms
• Traditional Badjao boat-house.


  LEPA

  
• • has outriggers, roofed, walled in on all sides by wooden boards.


  DJENGING
• • not roofed, only used for fishing and short trips.


  DAPANG OR VINTA
• Traditional Badjao landhouse.


  LUMA

  
• stairs where women often wash clothes and kitchen utensils.

  HARUN
• Traditional Tausug house.

  • House building can be construed as corresponding to the birth of a human.

  BAY SINUG

  
• Bay sinug’s finials are called…

  TADJUK PASUNG
• Traditional Tausug house.

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  Sequence of constructing posts:

  Center (navel), SE (hip), NW (shoulder), SW (hip), NW (shoulder), W then E (ribs), N (neck), S (groin).
• Traditional Maranao house, ancestral residence of the datu and his extended family.


  TOROGAN

  
• traditional large house

  MALA-A-WALAI
• small house

  LAWIG
• • (decorative beam ends) 
  • are often with pako rabong and naga 

  PANOLONG
• lady’s dormitory tower

  LAMIN
• • Focus on church building and other colonial infrastructures to urbanize the country

  SPANISH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE
• Forced urbanization and resettlement.

  The formerly scattered barangays were brought together and reduced in number and made into compact and larger communities to facilitate religious conversion and cultural change.

  Reducción