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PRE-HISPANIC

PERIOD
09/04/21

Mangulabnan,
Earlin Roice S.
AR 311 - ARCH31S3

FALE/BALE Ifugao houses are highly admired ethnic architectural designs


due to the use of the indigenous system of construction that
is more complex than it appears to be. As we can see, the
coconut tree house which is located at Abra de Ilog,
Occidental Mindoro is similar in its characteristics to the
Fale/Bale Ifugao House. Both houses have large roofs
that keep their exteriors from the wind and also used
thatch to avoid or lessen the heat from the sunlight.
The shape of the roofs are also both pyramidal or
conical. In terms of the facade, both have similar sole
entrances.

STILT HOUSE
COCONUT TREEHOUSE
in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro

ARBOREAL SHELTER

SUNCTUARIA TREEHOUSES
in Busuanga, Palawan
SUNLIGHT ECO TOURISM ISLAND RESORT
in Culion, Palawan

The arboreal shelter was built on high Stilt houses are an Austronesian legacy
trees. Similar to arboreal shelter, the to us. As we can see, these houses can be
Sunctuaria Treehouses which is located described as an aquatic base of life. What
at Busuanga, Palawan were also made on was previously designed and constructed
bamboo and erected on trees. Both of still exists today. Both structures are
these have thatch roofs which can bring elevated and have a gable roof with
freshness inside the house and of course, extended ridges. Perhaps the only
it can help to avoid the feeling of the difference is the other materials with
heat from the sunlight. which in today’s era the stilt house being
built is more reinforced.

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