HOUSING WEEK 3 (CULTURE)

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However, a gap in knowledge exists regarding the interaction
Domestic Architecture
between culture and spatial organization in___________
Socio-cultural attributes contribute to the formation of human
TRUE
habitat (TRUE or FALSE)
Culture ________influences how people use spaces
- Cultural beliefs
- traditions are strongly correlated with domestic architecture
- practices
Sociocultural meanings and factors, including cultural beliefs and
Built environment design
social values, directly affects the ________
Wagner stated "_____________" stand as the concrete expres-
Dwellings sion of a complex interactions among cultural skills and norms,
climactic conditions and the potentialities of natural materials.
Morphology Various dimensions influence housing __________over time
The House is a cultural phenomenon; it is a place for rest and
TRUE
relaxation for humans (TRUE or FALSE).
The house can be conceived as a symbolic social communication
lifestyles, ambitions
reflecting_____________ and _______________
- social relations
- social networks
- self-identity
- privacy
- continuity Nine meanings of House
- personalization
- activity base
- childhood homes
- physical structures
He defined the house as a dynamic structure that grows and
Hanson (1998) changes in size and configuration according to their inhabitants'
needs.
argued that people from different cultures and values have differ-
Rapaport
ent houses
found an association between physical space design and organi-
Deb and Sinha
zational behavior
The hierarchy in spatial organization can be designed depending
environmental, sociocultural
on ____________ and____________factors.
The design of any house, as a form of the built environment,
behavior of human beings, cultural, traditional beliefs should consider and reflect the ____________ and the accumu-
lation of___________and ____
In _______, the front door of the house must face against the flow
Bontoc
of a nearby river according to ancient folk beliefs.
In ___________, the roof of the house must slope following the
Romblon
direction of the incline of the nearby mountains.
_________, it is different. The ridge of the roof is always positioned
Cordilleras at right angles to the ridge of the mountain on which the house
stands.
Among the Ibalois, a______________ in the Cordilleras, it is
customary to give ample space underneath their houses by el-
Benguet ethnic group, future tomb evating their floors to accommodate the __________ of the owner
to ensure perpetual guidance over the house the dead leaves
behind.
If one is building a house within a family compound or between
higher two relatives, make sure that the roof is not ________than theirs,
otherwise, their lives will never progress or will always be worse.

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A __________ must not be built so close to that of his parents
sibling's house such that rainwater from the eaves of the main house pours onto
the roof of the sibling.
POSTS
- posts are laid with their bottom ends at the footing on the ground
and the top ends pointing towards the east.

-The post nearest the east is the first to be raised. In Southern Tagalog, posts are erected following this procedure:

-The same procedure is followed for the other posts, one after the
other in a clockwise direction as one reads the plan
This same clockwise manner of raising the posts is practiced on
windproof the island of Romblon and the belief is that it will make the house
_________.
The _____________ equate the building of a house to the devel-
opment of a fetus. They believe that the first to appear in a woman's
Tausugs
womb is the navel. Hence, the first post to be erected should be
the main post within the interior of the house.
In the Cagayan Valley, meanwhile, the first post to be raised is the
northeast, wine. one positioned nearest to the __________. But this is done after
the footings have been sprinkled with ____________
The old folks of Bataan caution against having a ________in the
solitary post
middle of a room. It is said to bring misfortune to the family.
This belief is also common in _____________ areas and it is said
Tagalog that posts situated this way augur a "heavily laden" life (mabigat
ang kabuhayan).
The ___________ do not use crooked wooden posts especially
Yakans the ones with knotholes in them because they are said to symbol-
ize death.
In the older communities of _________________, it is commonly
believed that termites (anay) will not enter the house if the bot-
toms of all wooden posts are first __________. Informed mas-
Bayambang, Pangasinan,, charred,,, tarred ,,,, rock salt ter carpenters, however, suggest that these bottoms not just be
charred but ________as well. Others swear by the potency of
___________ sprinkled generously in all footing excavations as
preventive measures against anay infestation.
STAIRS
____________ position their stairs so that they rise with the morn-
Ilocanos ing sun. To them, if it were the other way around, meant turning
one's back on fate.
But builders in _____________just like many typical Filipinos,
believe that a stairway facing east is considered bad luck because,
Pandi, Bulacan, they say, anything facing the early sun dries up ahead of all others,
and in the same token, wealth taken into the house will dry up
much faster.
If there is no way one can make the stairs face east, at least make
mountain
them face any nearby_____________
If one's lot abuts a river, position the stairs in a way that they are
upstream. facing ___________ This is so in order that good luck from the
house would never be washed away with the river's flow.
In the same way, if the proposed house is beside the sea, or if one
is building a beach house, plan the stairs in such a way that they
parallel, perpendicular
run _______ with the shore. If the stairs are ________________
to the shoreline, luck may flow in but also flow out with the tides.

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it is not advised to place a _____________in the wall directly
facing the stairs so that good fortune will not easily go out that
window.
___________ never use the space beneath the stairs as a sleep-
Tagalogs
ing quarters.
The underside of wooden stairs of _____________ houses are
Ilonggo usually completely covered not because of peeping Toms but
because the Old folks say so
In homes, neither should __________be kept there because it
Rice translates to treading on the grace of God whenever one goes up
or down the stairs.
When planning a structure with two or more storeys, the stairway
center of the structure should not be positioned at the ________________ so as not to
divide the building into two equal parts.
It is believed that the _____________ of a son or daughter of the
dried umbilical cord house owner inserted in the staircase will strongly bind the stringer
with its supporting girder.
If your home has a slight elevation, choose _________ but never
four steps
three.
The ______ of Mindanao, however, believe in _________ num-
Yakans, odd
bering of steps. They also require an odd number of bedrooms.
Chinese Filipinos, on the other hand, count their steps by
fours
_________.
DOORS
It is advised that doors should not face each other. The peo-
north, coffin ple in the ________associates this with the easy passage of a
_______through two doors that directly face each other.
In ______ and _________ however, wide doors facing each oth-
er are considered lucky, especially if they lead to the _____ or
________. One's door also should not directly face one's neigh-
Sta. Maria, San Miguel Bulacan, terrace, garden
bor's to avoid future conflicts with the said households and to avoid
wrestling with each other for the possession of the luck that passes
in front of both your houses.
LIVING ROOMS
______________, like basements are looked at as pockets of
Sunken rooms caves where evil spirits can hide. It is balanced off only when an
exit lower than the said room is provided.
Some _________ do not want basements altogether because of
Ilocanos
the belief that only coffins should be found under the ground.
Old folks of _________ advise that the floors of the living and
Sta. Maria Bulacan, "ball of fortune" dining rooms must be of the same level. They say the imaginary
"__________" must be able to freely roll across both floors.
__________ living and dining room ceilings, especially those with
cornices, moldings, and other superficial decorations are avoid-
Overly ornate, mansard, flat ed as it tends to make the ceiling look like a coffin. Even the
"_________" or flat type of roof invented at the turn of the century
are avoided as it reminds people of a coffin.
BEDS AND BEDROOMS
It is advised that one must plan the doors of one's bedrooms in
FALSE such a way that when it is opened, one would face the foot and
head of the bed. (TRUE or FALSE).
There should always be ample space between the door and the
TRUE
bed itself. (TRUE or FALSE)

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Position the bed such that the headboard does not rest against a
window opening
____________.
Neither should you put any bed under a cross beam, regardless
perpendicular of whether the beam is of wood or concrete, and position the bed
so that the occupant will not be lying __________ to the beam
Overly strict homeowners do not have _________ at all even if
exposed beams
these are veneered with different materials.
For houses with second floors, it should be observed that no
__________ runs inside or under the floor where the bed is locat-
drainage pipe ed. ______________ contain unclean fluids associated with bad
energies which may affect the good spirits of the people sleeping
over these pipes.
Do not place bedrooms in the basement portion of the house. It is
higher always preferred (luck-wise) that the bedroom floor is ________
than the living room.
Non-sleeping rooms like library, den, foyer, storage, etc. can be at
lower level
a __________ than that of the living room.
As anyone who knows Filipino cuisine, Pampangos love to cook
sunniest and brightest (and eat), so most of their dining rooms are situated in the
_____________ locations of the house.
Ilocanos, on the other hand, prefer ___________because they
subdued lighting
consider eating a solemn occasion.
OTHER CULTURAL BELEIFS
Applicable to both house owner and tenant, if the former is not
Pampangos in Central Luzon
residing in it this superstition is attributed to________
Are popular in Filipino houses especially for Roman Catholic
Palm Fronds
families.
In planning and designing, the house, people should refrain from
cross having their house in the shape of a ________ as it will bring the
residents bad luck
West Doors should never face ________
Mirrors should never face a house's __________ because it is be-
main door lieved that the mirror will send out the blessings that are supposed
to go inside the house.
During construction, residents or the carpenters working on the
pig or a chicken's blood house should offer a__________ through pouring it to the foun-
dation or posts of the house.
Another thing which should be done during construction is twisting
clockwise
the posts _______ before cementing it in its place.
It is believed that a child will be lucky if his or her first ever
extracted tooth
___________ is placed under a house's roof.
People should never ________ during evening going to the direc-
Sweep the floor
tion of the main door and outside the house.
A house that is built in the middle of a crossroad and faces the
dead end or what is called "_________" in Filipino is said to be
tumbok
full of bad luck for its residence. this is also applies to buildings,
apartments, and all other structures.
An imperative ritual in building house, perhaps the Ilocano coun-
loose coins terpart of cornerstone-laying ceremony, is to imbed the foundation
posts with______________-for good luck
A house should face ________, if it could be helped. Sunshine
east
entering the front door ushers in prosperity.

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Doors inside houses must not directly ________ other doors that
leads outside. Easy exits mean money earned may be quickly
dissipated and never saved.
As for stairs, they should always turn _____, that being the right-
right, marital bond, infidelity eous path. This particular belief applies best to the ____________.
an opposite signifies__________.
Ilocanos of the northernmost part of the Philippines tend to cut
aratiles trees down __________ growing in front of their houses to prevent their
daughters from being illicitly impregnated.
To make a house typhoon-resistant, the posts should be turned
clockwise
____________ before being permanently cemented and secured.
allowing the ___________ of a posts to fall on you while erecting
shadow
it is a bad omen
Erecting a house in front of a ________street will bring bad luck
dead-end
to its occupants, whether it is the original owners or tenats.
Doors should always be on the__________ of the house and the
right side, right stairs should always turn to the _______ to keep a married couple
loyal to each other life
must not be constructed higher than the ground for it would de-
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mand sacrifice in human life.
The owner must transfer to the new house not later than
six in the morning
_______during the new moon to attract good luck and prosperity,
and the first thing that must be brought inside the house are_____,
salt, rice and coins
______ and ______
No part of the house should cover or hang over the ___________.
stump of a newly cut tree
Neither should a new house overlap any portion of an old house
A two-story building that is remodeled into a single story will
TRUE
shorten the lives of its occupants. (TRUE or FALSE)
A _______ that enters the house brings good luck as long as
it doesn't bite any of the occupants. this is probably based on
snake, python the practice of Filipinos during the Spanish colonial times to
keep_______ in the partition between the roof and the ceiling to
reduce the rodent population the house.
7 and 11 number that brings good luck
number that never used as an address number or the number of
13
a story in a building
An injury to a construction worker while a house or building is
pig or a white chicken being erected is an omen of bad luck that can be neutralized by
killing a __________ and sacrificing its blood to the spirits.
is considered to be haunted and must not be cut down when
Balete tree. building a house or else the spirits will attack the construction
workers as well as the owner of a house.

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