Pre-Colonial Vernacular Architecture

Question 1

Exemplifies the commonest building techniques based on the forms and materials of a particular historical period, region, or group of people.

Answer 1

Vernacular Architecture

Question 2

Archetypal Buoyant rectangular volume of SoutheastAsian tropical characteristics domestic architecture:
▪An elevated livingfloor
▪Raised pilefoundation
▪Voluminous thatchedroof

Answer 2

Domestic Structures

Question 3

The traditional type of house in
Apayao with an elevated
rectangular one-room structure
and protected by a high-pitch
thatch roof that resembles a
pointed barrel vault.

Answer 3

Apayao House
Balai. Northern Cordillera

Question 4

Roof suggests an inverted hull.

Exposed floor joists outside suggest the
profile of aboat.

2. _______, main section.
3. ________, slightly raised platform on threesides.

Answer 4

1. Binuron Traditional Isneghouse.
2. Datag or Xassaran
3. Tamuyon

Question 5

No outriggers, roofed, loose and detachable structure
_________, has outriggers, roofed, walled in on all sided by wooden boards.
_________, not roofed, only used for fishing and short trips.

Answer 5

1. Lepa Traditional Badjaoboat-house
2. Djenging
3. Dapang or Vinta

Question 6

Harun, stairs where women
often wash clothes and
kitchen utensils.

Answer 6

Luma
Traditional Badjaolandhouse.

Question 7

Traditional lowland dwelling, northern and central regions.
“The passively-cooledhouse.”
Poroussurfaces

Horizontality of windows
Roof and window overhang
Surrounding gardens

Answer 7

Bahay kubo

Question 8

Interior Spaces

Answer 8

Primary spaces
▪ Livingroom
▪Kitchen and service area (dapogan, banggerahan and batalan)

Secondary spaces
▪ Dining
▪Silong andbalkon
▪ Bedrooms

Question 9

Traditional Bontoc house,
for the affluent.
2. ________, dwelling for the poor.
3. __________, residence of widows or unmarried old women; can also be called katyufong.

Answer 9

1. Fay-u/ Afung
2. Katyufong
3. Kol-lob

Question 10

2.______. Traditional Ifugao house, for the affluent; more permanent.
3. _________, dwelling for the poor; temporary.
Support system: four posts,two girders, three joists or beam
4. ________, rat guard
“The house as awomb.”

Answer 10

1. Baleor Fale
2. Fale
3. Abong
   4.Halipan

Question 11

Thick thatch, walls mortared with stone or plastered with Wooden post and lintel framework is implanted in the walls

Answer 11

Rakuh
Traditional Ivatan house.

Question 12

This type of house is the common two-sloped roof of either the rakuhor the kusina.

Answer 12

Rakuh
Sinadumparan

Question 13

This type of house under rakuhor
kusinahas stone and lime walls with
a distinct four-sloped roof

Answer 13

Rakuh
Maytuab

Question 14

2. _____. Traditional Kalinga house.
   Octagonal in plan; exterior features are not strongly defined.
3. _______, centralsection.
4. _______, slightly elevated side sections.

Answer 14

1. Binayon
2. Finaryon
3. Dataggon
4. Sipi

Question 15

Traditional Kankanaihouse, for the wealthy.
2. ______, for poorer families; temporaryabode.
3. _________, moretemporary.

Answer 15

1. Binangiyan
2. Apaor inapa
3. Allao

Question 16

Traditional Bontoc house in Sagada.
2. __________, upper level granary

Answer 16

1. Inagamang
2. Agamang

Question 17

Traditional SamaI houses elevated rectangular one-room are structures near the waters of Southern Mindanao, Palawan, Zamboanga, and Sulu archipelago. These houses
coastal. These houses are directly built on shallow water and connected to the shore by a pantan (bridge) or directly built on solid

Answer 17

Samal House

Question 18

House building can be construed as corresponding to the birth of a human. 2. ______
bargeboardend decoration.

Answer 18

1. Bay Sinug Traditional Tausug house.
2. Tadjukpasung

Question 19

Roof suggests an inverted hull.
Exposed floor joists outside suggest the profile of a boat.
2. __________, main section.
3. _______, slightly raised platform on threesides.

Answer 19

1. Binuron Traditional Isneg house.
2. Datag or Xassaran
3. Tamuyon

Question 20

1. _________, family residence
2. ____, council house and dormitory of young and old unmarried males
3. __________ for male dormitory
4. _______, storage for food, jewelry and wone jars
5. _________, rice granary
6. _________, pigpens

Answer 20

1. Afong
2. Ato
3. Ulog or Alog
4. Al-kang
5. Akhamang
6. Falinto-og

Question 21

Traditional Maranao house, ancestral residence of the datuan and his extended family.
2. ______, traditional large house.
3. ______, small house.
4. ________, The (decorative beam and ends) are often with pako rabong naga carvings.
5. ________, lady’s dormitory tower.

Answer 21

1. Torogan
2. Mala-a-walai
3. Lawig
4. Panolong
5. Lamin

Question 22

Features of Vernacular Architecture

Answer 22

The builders are non-professional architectsor engineers.

There is constant adaptation, using natural materials, to the geographical environment.

The actual process of construction involves intuitive and is open to later modifications.

There is balance between social/economic functionality and aesthetic features.

Styles are subject to the evolution of traditional patterns specific to an ethnic domain.