UNIVERISTY OF THE CORDILLERAS

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Department of Architecture

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 04
Philippine Architecture

BAHAY NA BATO

Area Description
Vernacular English
Asotea/Azotea Balcony Used as an elevated outdoor terrace or service area.
Banyo Bathroom A room intended for washing or bathing.
Kubeta Toilet A room with Latrina (latrine), a receptacle for human
waste where ash from the kusina (kitchen) is poured to
eliminate odor.
Kuwarto Bedroom A room usually adjacent to the sala (living room) with
kama (bed), tokador (dresser), aparador (cabinet) and
mesa (table).
Sala Living room The central room in a Filipino house often facing the
street or plaza and is used as the family’s leisure and
social activities' room.
Kusina Kitchen A room where food is prepared and cooked.
Komedor Dining The space adjacent to the kusina (kitchen) where meals
are served.
Aljibe Cistern An enclosed masonry structure for storing water for
household and other uses.
Dispensa Pantry A service room adjacent to a kusina (kitchen) and
komedor (dining) for storing food supplies and other
provisions
Bodega Storage An enclosed room or space where things are stored.
Saguan Entrance hall The space, after the entrance, that serves as transition
space between the entrance and the grand stairs to the
upper floor.
Aksesorya Accessory An extension or annex to a house.
Sahig Floor The horizontal, levelled surface in a room on which one
walks and stands.
Silya Living room A seat use for relaxation, recreation, and entertaining
guests.
Yerong Galvanized A roof with galvanized metal sheet with corrugation or
bubong roof wavy profile.
Alulod Gutter A shallow metal channel placed along the eaves to catch
and carry off rainwater from the roof
Bintana Window An opening in the external wall of a house or building
intended to allow light and ventilation for the interior
space and to provide view of the outside.
Bintanilya Small window The small window between thefloor and the windowsill.

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 04 – PHILIPPINE ARCHITECTURE 04

Ar. Reybert Mark B. Montemayor, UAP, RMP
 UNIVERISTY OF THE CORDILLERAS
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Department of Architecture

Palupo Ridge The topmost part of a roof where two sloping roofing
surfaces meet.
Bubong Roof The top cover of a building that provides shelter against
the elements.
Alero Eaves The lower end of the roof projecting beyond the wall
board often with a decorative pierced work of wood
board or metal sheet.
Pasamano Window sill The horizontal member between window opening and
bintanilya (small window) that serves both as base of the
window and handrail.
Dingding Wall A vertical structure of wood or masonry provided to
enclose or divide a space.
Tahilan Rafter Heavy parallel wood beams where the top end is
attached to the ridge beam and the bottom part rests to
the roof beam to support the heavy tiled roof or much
lighter galvanized roof.
Bosolan Roof beam A massive lumber above the wooden post or thick
masonry wall as support for the rafters or trusses.
Tirante Tie beam A weighty piece of lumber with its ends connected to the
roof beams through lap joints to keep them from
spreading.
Barateja Battens A small lumber serving as clay tile roof base.
Barakilan Purlin A rectangular or square lumber horizontally laid above
rafters or top chord where galvanized roofing sheets are
fixed.
Tahilan Floor beam The secondary rectangular floor beam resting on the
biga (beam) where the soleras (floor joists) are fixed.
Pader Masonry wall A wall built of natural stones or bricks bonded together
using lime mortar.
Soleras Floor joist Rectangular beams laid in parallel with each other at
about 2 feet spacing over the floor beams where
floorboards are fixed.
Haligi Post Heavy square timber columns or logs buried directly in
the ground above stone boulders to support floor and
roof beams.
Bosolan Roof beam A structural element in the form of huge stone to support
a column.
Trabesanyo Horizontal A framing timber laid horizontally between vertical studs
stud
Pilarete Vertical stud One of the vertical wooden frames that is fixed between
the top plate and the sole plate.

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 04 – PHILIPPINE ARCHITECTURE 04

Ar. Reybert Mark B. Montemayor, UAP, RMP