Commission on Higher Education

Region V (Bicol)
Our Lady of Salvation College
Tiwi, Albay

Name: Joan Clerigo

Topic: Housing and Family Economics

Sub. Topics:

1. Development of Houses from various countries.

2. Different kinds of huts.

Conclusion: There are many types of houses and each one characterized by special
character and each one have different function, material and style, and made
according to a specific design.

Reference: Google

HOUSING AND FAMILY ECONOMICS

A home or shelter, which is a basic need of the family, is now growing concern
among the Filipinos. Every Filipino, regardless of his/her financial capacity, dreams
of owning a house for his/her family.

 Filipino housing have undergone various changes in style and material used.
 From bahay na bato to modern high building.
 The former using indigenous materials to modern day building materials.
 History from bahay na bato:
o Chalets during Spanish Era
- The term chalet stems from Arpitan speaking part of Switzerland
and French Savoy and originally referred to the hut of a herder.
- Chalet is a type of building or house, typical of the Alpine region in
Europe. It is made of wood, with a heavy, gently sloping roof and
wide, well – supported eaves set at right angles to the front of the
house.
o Bungalows and duplexes – American Era
- Bungalow is a low built one story house. It’s often small in size.
Bungalows often have a veranda (porch), at the front and or back,
which is a covered area to sit.
 - It originated in California in the 1890’s. it is a one – story frame
house, or a summer cottage, often surrounded by a covered
veranda.
- A duplex is a kind of house where two homes are built under one
roof. it is similar to a semi-detached house because duplexes are
attached to another person’s house on one side but not on both
side.
o Town houses and condos – today.
- The name townhouse or townhome was later used to describe non-
uniform units in suburban areas that are designed to mimic
detached or semi – detached homes. Today, the term townhouse is
used to describe units mimicking a detached home that are
attached in a multi- unit complex.
- A modern townhouse is often one with a small print on multiple
floors. In British usage, the term originally referred to the city
residence of someone whose main or largest residence was a
country house.
- The condominium building structure is divided into several units
that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas that
are jointly owned.

Development of Houses from various countries

A. Roman houses
- Wealthy Roman citizens in the towns lived in a domus. They were
single – storey houses which were built around a courtyard known
as an atrium. Atrium had rooms opening up off of them and they
had no roofs.
B. Indian different dwellings
- Housing in India varies from places of erstwhile maharajas to
modern apartment buildings in big cities to tiny huts in far – flung
villages.
C. Chinese houseboats
- A house boat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be
used primarily as a home.
- In some cultures, living on the water is common –either on stilts or
in a houseboat.
- A sampan is a relatively flat- bottomed Chinese wooden boat.
Some Sampan include all a small shelter on board and may be
used as a permanent habitation on inland waters.
D. Log cabins
- A log cabin is a small log house, specially a less finished or
architecturally sophisticated structure.
 - A log house or log building is a structure built with horizontal logs
interlocked at the corners by notching. Logs may be round,
squared or hewn to other shape.
E. East Indian grass-roofed house
- Green roof serve several purposes for a building, such as
absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, increasing benevolence
and decreasing stress of the people around the roof by proving a
more aesthetically pleasing landscape, and helping lower urban air
temperatures and mitigate heat island effect.
F. Thatched house
- Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as
straw, water reed, sedge, rushes heather, or palm branches,
layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from inner roof.
G. Lake dwelling
- Lake dwelling is a prehistoric structure, built over shallow waters,
such as a lake or marsh, supported on piles or artificial mounds of
earth or wood.
H. Arab tent
- Arabian tent is the traditional tent in UAE; it combines the styles of
Arab splendid past and advanced future.
I. Mansion
- A mansion is a large dwelling house. It is built during 20th and 21st
centuries usually have specially designed rooms meant
accommodate leisure activities of a particular kind.
J. Medieval chateau
- Medieval castles were built from the 11th century CE for rulers to
demonstrate their wealth and power to local populace, to provide a
place of defense and safe retreat in the case of attack, defend
strategically important sites like river crossings, passages through
hills, mountain and frontiers, and as a place of residence.
- The earliest form of castle was a simple wooden palisade, perhaps
with earthworks, surrounding a camp, sometimes with a permanent
wooden tower in the centre.

Different Kinds of Huts

a. Indian Adobe House
- Adobe house are Native American house complexes used by the
Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Adobe pueblos are modular,
multi-storey houses made of adobe or of large stones cemented
together with adobe.
b. Pioneer sod hut
- The sod house or “soddy” was often used alternative to the log
cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and
United states.
- Construction of Sod house involved cutting patches of sod in
rectangles, and piling them into walls. Sod houses accommodated
normal doors and windows.
c. Laplanders hut
- The Sami have historically been known in English as Lapps or
Laplanders but the term are considered derogatory now. Sami
ancestral lands are not well – defined.
d. African hut
- Traditional African builders constructed huts for sound reasons.
They were easier to build from a circular foundation with cheap,
readily available raw materials: mud clay and tree branches.
- There was a thick hedge, formed by a ring of euphorbia trees tall
enough to hide the homestead.
e. Nipa hut
- The Nipa hut or bahay kubo, is a type of stilt house indigenous to
the cultures of the Philippines.