TITLE PROPOSAL

NAME: Clemente, Miguel Irvin C. COURSE: Bachelor of Science in Architecture

Miclat, Renzo Hens E.
Surio, Maynard M.

Proposed Title No. 02

TITLE:
An Architectural Intervention of the Philippine High School for the Arts Amplifying the
Design-Centric Approach Through Creating an Interactional Heritage School

REASONS/ JUSTIFICATIONS IN CHOOSING THE TOPIC:

The Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) is a specialized public high school in
the Philippines offering arts-focused education established in 1978 by virtue of Presidential
Decree 1287. An attached agency of the Department of Education, it consults with the Cultural
Center of the Philippines for policy and program implementation of its arts program. Aside
from the Basic Education curriculum prescribed by the government, it offers various
specializations in the field of arts. The PHSA remains to be the country’s premiere institution
for high school level art education. Many of its alumni have contributed to both cultural and
creative industries. However, as the PHSA can only accommodate 130 to 150 students at any
one time, its impact on creative education nationwide is very limited.
Creative education in universities has been evolving in recent years from fine arts
programs to Modern Creative Industries specific courses. The University of the Philippines,
Ateneo de Manila, University of Santo Tomas and Saint Paul’s College Manila have for many
years been known for their strong liberal arts, humanities and fine arts programs that have
produced creative industry leaders in theater, film, television and advertising as well as a few
National Artists. Colleges have made headway by designing programs that develop
professional competence for more modern creative industries.
These university programs are still limited to exclusive schools which unfortunately
are inaccessible to the majority of Filipinos. If we are to scale creative education in the

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country, perhaps we need to look beyond the universities and high schools to expand
programs that develop enjoyable and employable creative skills through short, non-degree
certificate programs.
Already a few institutions such as the Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI),
The School of Fashion & the Arts (SoFA) Design Institute, and the International Academy of
Film and Television (IAFT) in Cebu offer TESDA accredited courses in photography,
graphic design, fashion and interior design, film making, animation and acting. These courses
are more accessible than full degree programs and have the potential to democratize creative
education to a broader base of students.
With all of these programs available in high schools, colleges and TESDA programs,
there are indeed a lot more opportunities for the young learner looking to start a career in the
cultural creative industries. Because cultural media, institutions and industries can also play a
crucial role in ensuring the viability of traditional forms of performing arts by developing
audiences and raising awareness amongst the general public. But for this to happen, there is
need to convince the previous and future generation that there is indeed a sustainable spaces
to be made in cultural creative industries without losing the heritage foundation of the art.

EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE IN

ARCHITECTURE:
Incremental assembly of the built environment can promote dislocation of form and
dissociation of function without any necessary legibility, integration, or harmony. This
proposal explores the concept of visual appropriateness within frameworks of design
intervention constructed by public planning authorities.
Research confirm that stronger design intervention will characterize areas with denser
and more aggressive development activity and potential. The proposal demonstrates what is
involved in contextualizing and translating just one of the several constituents of cultural
design.
Due to the physical, functional and/or economic reasons, historical buildings require
interventions while adapting them to the contemporary conditions. Although, national laws
based on the international charters have determined the frame of these interventions, the
approach of the design-centric is still one of the basic criteria directing the state of a building
after restoration. Thus, together with the interpretation of design-centric, the type of
intervention varies. As needed today, interventions, a subject for one of the discussions in

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conservation, were applied by the past cultures when the consolidation, change in functions
and enlargement of spaces was required for the important architectural property belonging to
their own culture. Most of these historical buildings, which have to be protected according to
the contemporary conditions, contain interventions due to restorations in several periods. These
interventions are defined as the qualities to be evaluated and to be protected in the conservation
process of the historic building. Thus, the contemporary intervention will also be respected as
one of the qualities belonging to one of the periods of the building in later restorations. As the
scope of interventions may vary from simple repair to reconstruction, it is necessary to limit
the subject. In this study, new exterior additions to historic buildings are focused as major
interventions to the historic buildings such as intervening of culture and innovations. What is
aimed in this study is to determine the consistency of architectural expression in the
preservation of original qualities, before and after interventions according to the principles of
conservation. The aim is not only to direct the design-centric approach for the type of
intervention, but to derive the criteria which will form a base in his approach for the
conservation of the historic building, through the evaluation of the present developmental state
of civilization, technology and economic questions that makes contemporary interventions
necessary for the preservation and future development of the historic building stock.

LIST OF RELATED LITERATURE AND RELATED STUDIES CONSULTED:

1
Baker, H. G., Design Strategies in Architecture: An Approach to the Analysis of
Form, New Orleans, 1996, p.xvii
2
Maribojoc, Raymond (17 August 2004). "The Philippine High School for the Arts:
Arts on a Mountain". Philippine Star; Newsflash.
3
Fajardo, Rorie (4 January 2011). "The Gifted Give Back". Philippine Center for
Investigative Journalism.
4
"School Profile". Philippine High School for the Arts. Archived from the original on
9 December 2011.
5
Philippine Daily Inquirer, REVIEW: Philippine High School for the Arts' April 2003
6
Adobo magazine, Paolo Mercado, Educating Creativity: Building the Next
Generation, May 2018
7
Choose Philippines, The Mountain Blooms With Art: The Makiling Arts Festival, |
January 2014
8
UNESCO, Intangible Cultural Heritage:Performing Arts, 2017

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Architectural Science Review, Design intervention in architecture and planning:
practical explorations and applied outcomes, ·August 2016
10
İzmir Institute of Technology, Hulya YUCEER, An evaluation of interventions in
Architectural conservation: new exterior additions to historic buildings, September
2005
11
https://foursquare.com/...arts...philippine-high-school-for-the-arts, National Arts
Center | Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA), 2009
12
www.localphilippines.com/attractions/philippine-high-school-for-the-arts,
Philippine High School for the Arts - Laguna Attractions, 2005

Submitted by:

Clemente, Miguel Irvin L.

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Miclat, Renzo Hens E.

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Surio, Gil Maynard M.

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