Lesson 2 4
Lesson 2 4
Lesson 2 4
MSEUF
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE & FINE ARTS
1ST SEMESTER 2022
Topics
Prelims: Pre-Spanish Period
Midterm: Spanish Colonization Period
Semi-Finals: American Colonization Period
Finals: Independence & Modern Architecture
History of Architecture 4 – HOA 104
Reflection on Architecture in the Philippines
Vernacular Architecture
History of Architecture 4 – HOA 104
Reflection on Architecture in the Philippines
Vernacular Architecture
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Luzon
• Mangyan
• Binuron/ Apayao House
• Binayon/Finuryon / Kalinga House
• Bahay Kubo
• Fayu/ Bontoc House
• Bale / Fale / Ifugao House
• Ivatan House
• Binangiyan / Kankanay o Ibaloi House
• Inagamang / Tinikbob / Sagada House
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Mangyan
• Mangyan house is built on a slope, the entrance
faces the rise.
• The steep roof is of cogon grass, the sidings, of tree
bark, and the floor, of logs and saplings.
Mangyan
Plan
• Commercial house is elevated from the ground at
1.50m to the surrounding platform.
• It measures 6x10m and is rectangular in plan
• Flooring is made of smoothened smaller sapling.
• At the central part of the house, leading from the
main door is the called PALAGANAN. Traditional Mangyan house 1898-1912
- this passageway is at much lower than the platforms By: William Cameron Forbes
- visitors may sleep but most of the time it is used as extra Mangyan house is built on a slope, the entrance faces the rise.
storage spage for families The steep roof is of cogon grass, the sidings, of tree bark, and the
- Flooring is made of large logs laid parallel to each other and floor, of logs and saplings. The house appears to have no
attached to the joints by vines or rattan lashing. windows. However, it has a narrow strip of opening between roof
and wall.
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Mangyan
• Walls are made of barks of trees, and constructed about a
meter less above the floor – this opening allows occupants to
observe the exterior without having seen from the outside
• Gabbled roof with cogon grass thatching.
• Roofs are projected 1m beyond the wall for protection
against cold wind.
Binuron
• Traditional Isneg House
The Isneg, also Isnag or Apayao, live at the
northwesterly end of northern Luzon, in the upper
half of the Cordillera province of Apayao. The term
“Isneg” derives from a combination of is, meaning
“recede,” and uneg or “interior.” Thus, it means
“people who have gone into the interior.”
• Isneg are natural boatpeople and boat builders.
• The Isneg use wood for the posts, girders, joists, and
walls, and thatch or bamboo for the roof.
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Binuron
• A typical Isneg house resembles the traditional Isneg boat in
some ways.
• It is regarded as the largest and among the most
substantially constructed houses in the Cordilleras.
• The roof of the Isneg house suggests an inverted hull
• the floor joists when seen from the outside appear to have
the shape of a boat.
• An interesting feature of the Isneg house is the way the
bamboo roof is constructed. Lengths of bamboo tubes are
split in two, and these are laid in alternating face-down-face-
up arrangement, their sides interlocking.
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Binuron
• is a multifamily, one-room, rectangular dwelling supported by 15
wooden piles, with a clearance from the ground of about 1.2
meters.
• It measures about 8 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 5.5 meters
from the ground to the roof ridge.
• The walls slant and taper downward.
• Its atap (roof) is gabled, in contrast to most Cordillera dwellings,
which have pyramidal or conical roofs.
• A tarakip, an annexlike structure, is built at one end. It is as wide
as the house itself, with a slightly higher floor but a lower roof.
Some houses feature a tarakip at both ends.
• The Isneg use wood for the sinit (posts), anadixiyan (girders),
toldog (joists), and dingding (walls); and thatch or bamboo for
the roof.
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Bahay Kubo
• Traditional lowland dwelling, northern & central regions.
SINADUMPARAN
sinadumparan ivatan house - Bing images
• is a low, stone and lime- walled house with thick cogon roof.
• It is usually4-5 meters in width and 6-7 meters in length. Its
walls have a thickness of a meter or so and a usual height of 5-6
meters from the ground.
• The floor plan is rectangular, commonly in two stories, composed
of the basement ( ahbu ) and the upper story ( sahad ).
• Both kitchen and main building are similar in shape but differ in
height, with the main being higher.
• The two structures are connected by abatalan which is level to
the floor of the kitchen. There are two or three steps going up
the main structure
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Maytuab/Nituavan
Chivuvuhung
• The four sides of the roof of this structure tapers upward to the
• The walls of this structure are made of thatched cogon enclosing top to form a trapezoidal shape on the two opposite longer sides
the floor space on all sides. This houses the hearth on one end and triangular on the other two opposite shorter sides. It has
with a sleeping area on the other. a low basement.
Kamadid Rahaung (A)
• This has a low structure made entirely of wood, reeds and • This is more complex than the kamadid. Its triangular cogon
cogon. It has a triangular shape when viewed from the roof is lifted from the ground by four or more wooden posts.
front, with the two sides serving as its roof going down to its
walls. It has a trapezoidal shape as seen from the side view Rahaung (B)
where both ends are open. This type of house is commonly used
as a shelter for shing boats and other seacrafts. Very few of these • This essentially has the same basic structure as the (A) variant
remain today. with an additional protection in the form of cogon and reeds on
both ends
Mayhurahed
Sinadumparan a binedberan
• This resembles the chivuvuhung. The only difference is that this
has a low wall made of stone, chopped cogon and mud or lime • This structure’s slight difference with sinadumparan is the way
and sand between the ground and the cogon sides which is the roof is made. The roof is placed above and extends to the
called hurabed triangular wall
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Binangiyan / Kankanai Houses
Baey/Babayan, house
An elevated, square, one-room house of the kankanay and ibaloi,
with 4 thick posts supporting a timber upper floor and steep hip
type roof flared out similar to the roof of the Bontocs and Kalingas
houses.
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Mindanao
• Lepa / Luma / Badjao House
• Samal House
• Bay sinug / Tausug House
• Yakan House
• Torogan / Maranao House
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Harun – stairs where women often wash clothes and kitchen utensils
Luma
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
• Samal House
• Traditional Samal Houses are elevated rectangular one-room
structures near the coastal waters of Southern Mindanao,
Palawan, Zamboanga, and Sulu archipelago. These houses are
directly built on shallow water and connected to the shore by a
pantan (bridge) or directly built on a solid ground.
• Coastal house has ample space underneath the house for the
family's pelang (bbat) and fishing para.phernalia
• Samal House
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
• Tausug House
Tausug or “suluk” is the foremost ethnic group in Sulu then
followed by badjao, samal, yakan, kagayan, Iranun and
kalibugan
Bay-sinug
The traditional houses of Tausug in the southern Philippines.
It is comprised of two or more houses on stilts that are
connected by an elevated open space serving as house
extensions.
• Tausug House
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
• Tausug House
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
• Tausug House
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Yakan House
• Yakan is the 3rd largest ethnic community in Sulu Archipelago,
after the Tausug and the badjao.
• Known for their intricate and colorful embroidery.
• The interior of the one-room house is devided into:
Kokan – sleeping area
Tindakan – multi-use living space
Pantan or simpey – (porch)
Kosina – kitchen
By a 0.25m patung (wooden flitch)
Angkap – mezzanine, for girls above sleeping area.
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Yakan House
HOA 104 – Philippine Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
• Today, only a few lamin are left. Among them is that of the late
Bae Minangoao Dimaporo in Binidayan.
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