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SAGADA HOUSE
SAGADA, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE

MALAYS OR IGOROTS ARE MOUNTAIN

PEOPLE THAT SPEAK KANKANA-EY
SAGADA OR INNAGAMANG
(GRANARY STYLE)

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
The house originated in Sagada, Mountain
Province, located at the northwestern portion of
Mountain Province at 17° 05’ N and 120° 54’ E
Atep, Roof
GEOLOGICAL LOCATION gabled and rat-proof
roof made of solid
The location is distinct for its limestone planks and cogon grass
formations and underground rivers. The gathered into bundles
dominant types of minerals found  are
sand, gravel and boulder aggregate, gold,
calcium and limestone.

TOPOGRAPHY Granary, Agamang

Mountainous made of bamboo
terrain with gentle slats and lumber
to very steep slopes

Dingding/Diding, Wall
horizontal planks
mortised together and
chinked with mud & Tokod, Post
mashed rice husks
square wood post

MATERIALS & wooden

plank floor
CONDITIONS
FLOOR PLAN The granary, the walls of the
house, and the floor are made
of wooden boards.

Agdan (ladder) Dapoan (cooking area)

Roof line

Agamang (central granary) -

cube-shaped wooden room
about 8 x 8 feet and 6 feet
high

Kamalig - where people sleep

and store unused things; it is
three feet high

Lomeng (pig pen)

Da-o - wooden
floor; the first
storey
One doorway (Segpan) Tokod (posts) with
with no windows wooden disks to keep
pests away

Photo by Arencejean, 2018.

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Atep (roof)

Kiling (girder) - Agamang (central granary) -

the principal beam an elevated central wooden
used to support structure  for storing rice
the granary grain and offering sacrifices
to the anito.
People live under this granary
Desa (floor joists) -
rectangular member
that keeps up the
granary

Kamalig (storage
Dapoan (cooking space) - elevated
area) - located at wooden platform for
the rear of the storing baskets and
house pots
 ROOF DETAIL
very steep gabled roof,
only allowing the least
wall surface to be seen

pamobbongan (ridge beam) -

horizontal wooden section
todog (roof under-sheet) - that supports the upper end
made from runo sticks of the rafters

bogso (rafter) - wood secured

to the upper ridge pole and
beam below to carry the load
of the heavy roof

pitit (beam) - made of heavy

timber used to bind the lower bundled thick piles
post and also helps carry the of cogon grass 
load of the heavy roof
 The Sagada house is referred to
AGAMANG as a "house within a house"
with the granary within it.

It is regarded as the "heart" (poso) of the

house and intended for storing rice grain
that are not yet pounded.

Kiling - supports the

granary

TWO-POINT PERSPECTIVE
Dingding - wooden
boards for sheathing
interior walls of granary

Desa - floor joists for the Kammanga - A

granary structure horizontal timber
resting above the floor
joist used to hold up the
granary wallboards

Agdan - A wooden ladder utilized Tokod - posts where the

to access the granary granary stands

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