adaptations: Vernacular Architecture Large windows facilitate cross Vernacular Architecture or folk ventilation. or popular architecture/ Operable window Vernacular Architecture may awnings provide shade not so much be defined in from sun and rain. terms of style, but rather in Roof provide wide terms of process, how it is overhangs for the design and built. windows to protect them The process of vernacaular for solar radiation and design is adjusting an existing rain. model to particular needs and The walls and roof are results to variations of the constructed of original. thatch(nipa) with low U- (e.g. Primitive dwelling to values. adapts to local climate, thus, Time lag for the porous bahay kubo) materials becomes negligible. Bahay Kubo Bahay na Bato In the tropical setting of the Philippines, passive cooling When the spanish colonization techniques have ben in use since of the Philippine began, pre-historic times. numerous construction projects had to be undertaken Bahay kubo is designed as an by the colonizers. adaptation to its tropical Successive earthquakes environment. destroyed many building Among the bahay kubo’s forcing the designers to adaptations: rethink their structures. The living platform is Over a period of time, their elevated on stilts. architecture evolved in order The flexible framing to adapt to local system and materials environmental conditions in allow the bahay kubo’s the Philippines. To some frame to sway during extent, the designers had earthquakes. to”copy” some of the adaptive The Bamboo flooring features of the bahay kubo. material creates gaps This became the evolutionary between the slats which birth of the Philippines allows air to breeze. Ancestral house or more upward into the living commonly known as the Bahay na Bato jalousies on its exterior. The operable jalousies Characteristics: operate on the principle we now recognize The bahay na bato’s living platform was elevated from the damp ground by a stone base on the ground floor. The roof has a high pitch just like the bahay kubo so that rain water can be drained quickly The high pitch roof created a large air space between the roof and the ceiling. The Bahay na Bato has wide eaves (alero) that provides the necessary sun shading for its window openings. The Bahay na Bato has large windows and ventanillas below the windows to take full advantage of cross ventilation. The underside of the wide eaves was fitted with latticed vents that allow breeze to enter rof cavity preventing hot air fro accumulatuon within the cavity. To further protect the space from heat gain, a double wall system was built into the Bahay na Bato This feature is now known as a DOUBLE LAYERED FACADE system used in many of our moderm buildings While the venting of its cavity between the DOUBLE LAYERED FACADE (volada) is now known as VENTILATED DOUBLE FACADE (VDF) In certain cases, the volada had operable louvers or