Filipino bahay na bato interior windows#

The windows have tukod or “legs” that hold the swinging shades open during the day, and secure it back in place at night. The walls are made of nipa and cogon leaves or sawali or woven bamboo, and there are large windows on all sides, which keep the interior well-ventilated. This area serves as the area for livestock pens, storage space, workspace and granary. It has a cellar, called silong where most household chores are done. A typical bahay kubo only has one, large, open, multi-purpose room for dwelling, called bulwagan. Raising the interior from the ground safeguards the shelter’s inhabitants from flood, and from snakes and other wild animals.According to the book I’ve read. It is normally cubic in shape, this shelter is raised on stilts or posts of one to two meters depending on the area where the said shelter is constructed it may be on solid ground, on a hillside or mountainside, or in shallow water. It is constructed of indigenous materials that can easily be found in their local surroundings like wood, planks, grass, bamboo and large logs. It is made of indigenous building materials like bamboo and nipa, it was constructed to perfectly adapt to the tropical climate of the Philippines and to be easily repaired or rebuilt once damaged by typhoon, flood or earthquake which frequented the country. According to the book i read Bahay kubo is the native house of the Philippines and is also considered as its national shelter also known as Nipa Hut. One of the type of house that exclusively made is the Bahay Kubo. There are the two types of early houses in the Philippines the Bahay Kubo and Bahay na bato. In the early history, the early people made their houses or a shelter. In this world many houses are built, different houses are made but some are the same. House is a structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for any kinds of animals but especially a building or edifice for the habitation of man. All people in this world needs a shelter or a house.First I want to define a house. We all know that God creates all the things in this world especially the basic needs of humans like food, shelter etc. Later, it was demolished and transferred to Bataan.House or shelter is the one of the basic needs of humans. Until 2009, Casa Bizantina was home to 50 informal settlers. After the Second World War, the house was leased to various tenants. It was a school until 1919 when the Instituto moved to its own building at Sampaloc and expand to become The University of Manila. From 1914 to 1919, the house was leased out to Instituto de Manila to hold elementary and high school classes. In 1886, he won the contract to renovate the Tribunal de Sangleyes. Don Lorenzo was a native principalia and one of the numerous building contractors in Binondo (De Viana, 2001).

The house, along with the facade, built in 1890, was created by Don Lorenzo del Rosario. However, it is important to note that Neo-Mudejar traces its origins in the Bizantine style. Since floral houses used styles individually or in combination, it is highly possible that both Neo-Bizantine style and, to a lesser extent, Neo-Mudejar style influenced the construction of the house. De Viana (2001), in Three Centuries of Binondo Architecture, argues that the house is mainly influenced by Neo-Mudejar style, as indicated by the moorish door transom on the exterior, which are echoed in the interior wooden arches and transom traceries.

Floral houses, particularly those built during the last few decades of the 19th century, made use of revivalist styles in the form of influences from Neo-styles of Renaissance, Baroque, Byzantine, Romanesque, Neo-Mudejar (Tinio and Zialcita). Houses built during the period were characterized by more elaborate yet delicate embellishments in comparison to the previous Geometric period. Tinio and Zialcita (1980), of the Philippine Ancestral Houses, wrote that the Floral period for the Philippine ancestral houses flourished during the time of the 1880s to the 1930s. It also demonstrates the characteristics of a “Floral” bahay na bato. Moreover, the house is also representative of the proliferation of three storey high structures in commercial downtown areas outside Intramuros like Binondo. A decade before the house was built in 1890, the government enforced the use of galvanized iron sheets instead of curved roof tiles as additional protection also from earthquakes. Galvanized iron sheets are used for the roofing. The structure was typical of the bahay na bato in order to protect the inhabitants from earthquakes. The ground storey is built of stone and bricks while the upper storeys were made of various Philippine hardwood. The Casa Bizantina house is a bahay na bato at the corner of Madrid and Penarubia streets in San Nicolas, Binondo.

Filipino bahay na bato interior