◌ Behavioral Aspect of

Housing

◌ Economic and social

challenges of
housing

◌ Housing
Technologies

Submitted to:
Ar. Franklin Cale, Jr.

Submitted by:
Medenilla, Ivy F.
BS ARCH 51E1
 The behavioral aspect of housing is a man’s view of its
environment and the built space.
◌ In other words, the space that we see around us that
affects our behavior, thoughts, and actions. Our
behavior is affected by our Psychological Perspective
of space and the culture that influences us.

Psychological Perspective
Focuses attention on cognitive processes, attitudes,
beliefs, and so on.

Environmental Stimuli
They are basically events that occur in the environment
that our senses notice and respond to either consciously or
unconsciously. Changes in weather, temperature, humidity,
length of day, heat, cold, smell, taste, and etch.
◌ Size and height of space– predicts perceive angles,
distances, and shapes. It Can be used by individuals to
judge if their homes satisfy their psychological needs.
Height has better capabilities of influencing positive
emotional responses whereas overly long and wide
spaces were alienating.
◌ Color - it has a big impact in our sight, it catches the
attention of users and identifies the types of a buildings
buy colors examples are fire station is red, hospital is
white, police station is blue and etc.
◌ Temperature - The effect of provocation on emotional
experience. The comfortability of the users.
◌ Noise- it affects people’s concentration. Social interaction
is interrupted by masking of sounds.
Territoriality
A pattern of behavior and attitudes held by individual or
group that is based on perceived, attempted or actual control of
definable physical space, object or idea and may involve
habitual occupation, defense, personalization and marking of it.
It is associated with nonverbal communication that refers
how people use space to communicate ownership or occupancy
of areas and positions. An example of demonstrating territoriality
might be the house and lot.

Privacy
◌ Solitude - the state or situation of being alone. Is a
state of seclusion or isolation.
◌ Intimacy - the ability of a small number of people to
be by themselves undisturbed.
◌ Anonymity - the ability to interact or be with others
without releasing full information about oneself to avoid
being identified or accountable.
◌ Reserve – the ability to limit communication about
oneself to others.

Cultural Perspective
The cultural perspective of housing is the influences that
changed us to what we are today.
It means the influence that a culture or society has on a
person’s worldview and perspective. When culture is layered
on top of point of view it means that someone is seeing a
situation based upon their beliefs, values, experiences that
are commonly found in their own culture.

The Cultural Perspective of Filipino Houses

Filipino houses vary in the same style depending on their
location and social status and taste of the family. Houses
of the Filipinos are usually made of wood andnipa. Later
galvanized iron replaced nipa for roofing.
◌ In some towns, barrios, and cities, houses made of nipa and
bamboo are still to be found. Some have sawali walls and
cogon roofings. Most of the houses especially the older ones
are situated high above the ground for better ventilation and
reduced humidity. In the past, building a house was fast and
inexpensive. Houses were built then through the help of
friends and neighbors.
◌ Today there are few bamboo houses are already built of strong
materials like hallow blocks, wood, galvanized iron and glass
windows.
◌ The banguerahan, a storage shelf and drainer before the dish
rack was introduced, is still a part of modern houses. The
modern benguerahan is no longer enclosed with bamboo
spikes but is screened.
◌ Modernity has not entirely changed the Architecture of the
Filipino houses. The batalan is stall a part of the houses in
Luzon and is used as an open bathroom, a place for water
jars or tapayan and a place for washing. The modern batalan
is made of concrete and is still adjacent to the kitchen
 Social issues relate to personal rights and freedoms.
Economic issues relate to the production, distribution, and
consumption of goods ans services, in particular property and
income.

SOCIAL ISSUES (personal rights)

◌ • Everyone deserves to have a house

◌ • And each house should be in good quality
◌ • They need to have a job
◌ • They have the right to have their comfort

ECONOMIC ISSUES (production, distribution, and

consumption of goods)

◌ • Lack of housing units

◌ • Substandard housing units
◌ • They didn't reach the needs of the occupants
 AITECH stands for Accreditation of Innovative
Technologies for Housing. It is a system for accrediting
innovative technologies for housing and responds to queries and
requests from private manufacturers of indigenous and
innovative building materials/systems for technical and
engineering evaluation. The AITECH Inter-Agency Committee,
composed of eleven (11) government agencies reviews and
accredits the technologies.

LIST OF AITECH ACCREDITED TECHNOLOGIES

As of November 2019