Saint Louis College

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT

HOUSING
MT-ASSIGNMENT 01

TITLE: SETTLEMENT PATTERN

SUBJECT: RESPECTIVE TOWN OR CITY

STUDENTS:

CASTILLO, DELAMAR KAYE I.

INSTRUCTOR:

ARCH. VIC QUIJANO

TITLE: SETTLEMENT PATTERN

LOCATION : BALOAN, LA UNION, PHIL.

EVALUATION:
Balaoan La Union base map is situated in fertile farming site. With grid pattern and with direct access to
main road and adjoining road network.
Because of the growth of population and as the time pass by, many household were built . It is because
towns, market, church and business establishments are near.
Since Balaoan is a rural area it has a combination of nucleated and linear settlement base of its shape
and there are some open swath of land that has few homes since agricultural is its main source of
living.
 SETTLEMENT ACCORDING TO SHAPE
 NUCLEATED

 It is a nucleated settlements because towns where buildings are close together, often clustered around a
central point. The location can be determined by a range of factors, including being easy to
defend, close to a water supply or located at a route centre.
 It is a nucleated settlements where people have settled on flat lowland areas, where the town can
expand in many directions.

 Route centres are seen to create settlements in a nucleated pattern which grow up around a crossroad.
Due to urbanisation and site factors, many settlements will expand quickly.
 
 SETTLEMENT ACCORDING TO SHAPE
 LINEAR

 It is in a Linear settlement were in houses are built and can be seen along roads.
 This is the outward spread of an existing town along main road and a nucleated settlement .
 It has no centre, such as road junction.
 And may have a long narrow shape.

SETTLEMENT ACCORDING TO FUNCTION

 MARKET TOWN

 Because of its provision of goods and services to surrounding household barangays .

 The market, town plaza, church and other business establishments is situated near the household where in
transport was easy to access because it is located on the main road.
 It centers agricultural where in it creates job and opportunities to lift people out of poverty in developing.
 With good transportation that links other routes within the town and neighboring town.
 
BALAOAN LA UNION PROFILE
“The Sea Urchin Capital of the North “
 
 

Balaoan, officially the Municipality of Balaoan, is a 1st class municipality in the province of La

Union, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 39,188 people. Balaoan is situated north
of Bacnotan, south of Bangar, east of Luna and west of Santol. Located 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of San
Fernando City, the provincial capital of La Union and the regional capital of Region I. Balaoan is 299 kilometres
(186 mi) north of Metro Manila. Barangay Paraoir is Balaoan's pristine coastal community on the South China
Sea. Its land area of 6,870 hectares (17,000 acres) consists mostly of agricultural lands. It occupies 4.3% of the
total area of the province.
 
 

BARANGAYS: Balaoan is politically subdivided into 36 barangays.

 Almeida  Cabuaan  Pagbennecan

 Antonino  Calliat  Pagleddegan
 Apatut  Calungbuyan  Pantar Norte
 Ar-arampang  Camiling  Pantar Sur
 Baracbac Este  Dr. Camilo Osias  Paraoir
 Baracbac Oeste  Guinaburan  Patpata
 Bet-ang  Masupe  Sablut
 Bulbulala  Nagsabaran Norte  San Pablo
 Bungol  Nagsabaran Sur  Sinapangan Norte
 Butubut Este  Nalasin  Sinapangan Sur
 Butubut Norte  Napaset Tallipugo
 Butubut Oeste  Pa-o
 Butubut Sur
HISTORY OF BALAOAN
 

According to William Scott, "Balaoan itself was an emporium for the exchange of Igorot gold.
Balaoan, formerly "Puraw" (meaning "white') was originally part of Ilocos Sur. The town's present name
originated during the Spanish colonial era. A group of Spanish soldiers were on patrol and went on to rest
on a sitio. The villagers were curious about the soldiers because of their unusual descent and fair skin
color. They flocked the soldiers touching their guns, too afraid that the guns might explode accidentally,
one villager asked the soldier in a local vernacular.. "Aoan bala?" (meaning "No bullets?"). The soldier
did not understand what the villager meant, he uttered the last word first, and remembering the last, he
said "Bala-aoan".
Balaoan is one of the oldest municipalities in La Union, having been founded in 1704. Its first Capitan is
Ignacio Duldulao.
 

Festivities
The church of Balaoan is under the advocacy of the town's patron saint, St. Nicholas of Tolentino, whose
feast day is celebrated on September. Balaoan's town fiesta is celebrated every December 21 to 23 of the
year.
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