PHILIPPINE

ARCHITECTURE: EARLY
FORMS OF DWELLING &
SOCIETIES
ARCH 391 – HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 4
FIRST SOCIETIES
 Apayao
 Badjao
 Traditional Bahay Kubo
 Early House Forms
 Ifugao
 Ifugao Rice Terraces
 Ivatan
 Kalinga
 Kankanay & Ibaloi
 Sagada
 Samal
 Tausug
IVATAN THATCH HOUSE
Jinjin is a type of house with a timber-framed structure which used reeds and cogon materials
for its walls and roof.

Kamadid, an Ivatan type of house with its

enclosing’s lower portion built of wood,
while the upper portion is built of cogon
grass. It has a thick hip type cogon roof.

Rahaung, an Ivatan structure used as a

working area and a place of storage for
fishing implement. The structure does not
have any wall enclosure, exposing posts
that support the rood, and the thick gable
cogon roof, either with or without gable
wall, made from cogon and reeds.
KALINGA HOUSE
Furoy, the traditional house of the Kalingas. It is comprise of an elevated, rectangular, one-room
house of timber materials, and thick roofing made from 8-10 layers of cut bamboo laid one above
the other. An interesting feature of the house is the removable wall panel for ventilation and the
elevated floor along the perimeter of the wall that can be used both for seating and sleeping
purposes.
KANKANAY & IBALOI HOUSE
Baey/Babayan, an elevated, square, one-room house of the Kankanay and Ibaloi, with four thick
posts supporting a timber upper floor and steep hip type roof of cogon grass. The lower end of
the roof of the Bontocs and Kalingas house.
SAGADA HOUSE
Tinokbob, one of the earliest houses in Sagada, windowless with a thick and steep roof intended
to withstand the cold weather conditions.

Tinokbob is one of the houses in

the Cordillera that is built
directly on the ground. Similar
types of houses are the Bontoc
and Nabaloi houses. The ground
space is used for eating, sleeping,
cooking and working and the
elevated central structure is used
as granary only.
SAMAL HOUSE
Traditional Samal houses are elevated rectangular one-room structures near the coastal waters of
Southern Mindanao, Palawan, Zamboanga, and Sulu archipelago. These houses are directly built
on shallow water and connected to the shore by a pantan (bridge) or directly built on solid
ground.
TAUSUG HOUSE
Bay sinug, the traditional house of the Tausug in the southern Philippines. It is comprised of two
or more houses on stilts that are connected by an elevated open space serving as house
extensions.

Tausug or “suluk” is the foremost ethnic

group in Sulu then followd by the Badjao
(Bajao, Bajau, Badyaw, Samal or Sama), the
Yakan, the Kagayan, the Iranun (Ilanun) and
the Kalibugan (Subanun or Suba’anon).

The word Tausug is said to come from the

words “tau” (meaning people) and “sug”
(meaning tide), hence they are the “people
of the tide”. The two distinct communities of
the Tausug is the “tau gimba” (inland people)
and the “tau higad” (people along the
shore).
YAKAN HOUSE
Lumah, the traditional houses of the Yakans in the mountainous interior of Basilan Island. It is an
elevated, rectangular, one-room structure with few small windows and protected by a high
pitched roof.

The interior of the one-room house is

divided into kokan (sleeping area) or
tindakan (multi-use living space), pantan
or simpey (porch), and kosina (kitchen)
by a 0.25 meter patung (wooden flitch).
The house also has angkap (mezzanine)
for girls above sleeping area.