CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study:

Every towns and cities in Cavite holds its unique and diversified culture, arts and history that
should be showcased. Thus, the provincial government of Cavite decided to build a bigger venue
that will cater such activities and chooses the City of Dasmarinas as the best location for the
project “A Proposed Convention Center”. Dasmarinas City is one of the largest and populous
city in Cavite. Big universities and colleges can be also found here. The city located at the heart
of the province which makes it accessible to towns, cities and even to nearby provinces including
Metro Manila.

Convention center is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals
and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer
sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees. Very large venues, suitable for
major trade shows, are sometimes known as exhibition centers.

This proposal seeks to find a way on how to create a new attraction in Cavite. Development is
not just by how everything is organized but also the area they work is important.

Statement of the Problem:

As towns and cities continuously grow, trades and businesses, services, cultural and educational
activities may rapidly developed alongside. Cavite province because of its close proximity to
Metro manila considered as one of the most industrialized and fastest growing province in the
country.

The statement analyze that the Proposed Convention Center is one of big projects in Cavite that
may caught the eyes of the people one of attraction in Cavite. To achieve this, we need to make
the exterior and interior spaces accessible and comfortable for all.

Significance of the Study:

This proposal aims to give a better solution with the Proposed Cavite Convention Center in
Dasmarinas City, Cavite. The researcher aims to help them with their basic necessities they need,
and by gathering ideas from the international guidelines that we can create a more functional
convention center.

It also aims to help students with their research, especially architecture students. This will help
them to fully understand the situations we have here in the Philippines, by the way they can
create another better solution or to enhance solution on how to help other people’s work or
activity by the organizing the facilities.

Objectives of the Study:

General Objectives:

 To create accessible for all people .

 To make the people satisfied and comfortable.
 To make the one of the attraction in the city.
 To create plan for the future use.

Specific Objectives:

 To give a welcoming ambiance to the public.

 To provide a spacious functional rooms etc.
 To provide a higher level of security for the people inside the convention center.
 To provide the vehicular spaces for the private and public cars.

Scope and Limitations:

This proposal focuses with the Cavite Convention Center. The gathered data was came from
some international convention centers that may help as to give all of needs of the spaces in the
convention center.
 CHAPTER 2:

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Profile of the Site:

Profile of the City: ( Dasmarinas City )

 Historical

Dasmariñas, officially the City of Dasmariñas (often shortened to Dasma ) is the largest city,
both in terms of area and population in the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is located
approximately 27 kilometres (17 mi) south of Manila. As of 2010, Dasmariñas is now the
largest component city and the 12th largest city in the country in terms of population with
575,817 people. It is classified as "first-class" city in terms of income classification and has
a land area of 90.1 square kilometers (34.8 sq mi).

The growing congestion and outward urban expansion of the Metropolitan Manila Area has set
up a favorable atmosphere for the development of the city. This inevitable growth is manifested
by the influx of industries, presence of large educational and health institutions, and the growing
number of subdivisions elevating its economy.

Foundation

In the 19th century during the Spanish Colonial Period, Dasmariñas was originally called
Tampus meaning "end of the forest" at the time the place was just a part of its mother town
of Imus. It was once a part of a vast Recollect Hacienda that supported all the various missionary
activities of the Recollects in the Philippines and in Spain.

On April 9, 1864, a council composed of the Archbishop of Manila, the politico military
governor of Cavite, the Prior Provincial of the Augustinian Recollect Order and the parish priest
of Imus met to discuss the creation of the new town and parish separated from Imus. At that
time, there were only 643 inhabitants that lived in Tampus, the heart of the community. After
thorough discussions, the Gobierno Civil Superior of the Islands approved the creation of the
new town on May 12, 1864 with Don Juan Ramirez elected as gobernadorcillo (town head).
An ensemble of nipa houses in the other barrios of the hacienda like Malinta, Nancaan, Salacay,
Paliparan, Malagasang and Salitran were grouped and migrated into areduccion (reduction) in
Tampus in 1866. Reduccion which originally meant the religious and civic aspect of friar
missionary activities, later, came to mean the process of resettling and unifying a community,
thereby creating a newly organized town. For the Spanish missionaries and friars, this process
was very advantageous not only for evangelization but also for bringing people under the
Spanish rule. Thus a new town called with its native name Tampus was formed. From that time
on, the people of Tampus built their house within the hearing distance of the church bells – "bajo
las toques de campana". The new town could be reached through a good network of roads and
bridges built by the best architects and engineers of the Recollect Order.

At the same year, the new town was rechristened Perez-Dasmariñas to honor the 7th Governor
General of the Philippines, Don Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas (1590-1593). Governor Dasmariñas,
a Knight of Santiago, was a native of Galicia, Spain and a former magistrate
of Murcia and Cartagena, Spain who brought a lot of economic improvements during the early
days of colonization.

Toward the end of 1866, the new town Perez-Dasmariñas has complied with the requirements of
a typical Philippine town: a spacious town plaza at the center of the town with the church and the
convent made of stone and bricks; a casa tribunal (courthouse) made of wood and nipa; a
primary school for children and various houses made of nipa were built on their designated
places; and a cemetery located around 200 yards away from the church and surrounded with
wooden fence.

The foundation of the town Perez-Dasmariñas was quite unique from all other towns of Cavite.
For the first time, a town was created not by a preceding petition of the barrio people and its
local officials as required by legal procedures and custom at that time. Instead, high ranking
church officials and the Cavite politico military governor were the prime initiators of its
foundation.

For the sake of the people of a growing town and for their own interest, the Recollects sent a
petition to Madrid for the creation of a new parish of Dasmariñas, independent from
Imus. Queen Isabella II signed the Royal Order creating the new parish of Perez-Dasmariñas on
October 21, 1866. The following year, the construction of the stone parish church of Dasmariñas
dedicated to the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception was started.

Geography

Dasmariñas City is about 8,234 hectares, 12 kilometers from Metro Manila or the National
Capital Region and 27 kilometers south of the center of the City of Manila. It is bounded by the
city of Imus and the municipality of Silang, both in Cavite at the north and south respectively, at
the east by the towns of San Pedro and Biñan by the side of Laguna and Carmona and at the
west, it is bounded by General Trias, also in Cavite and a little further from this boundary
is Trece Martires City.

It is strategically located at the intermediate zone of the Metropolitan Manila area. With adequate
accessibility, Dasmariñas is within the urbanizing development influence of Metro Manila area.

It is composed of the Poblacion and the barangays. The Poblacion which is now divided into four
zones is on the westernmost section of the city, Sabang, Salawag and Salitran are to the north
and to the south are San Agustin, Langkaan and Sampaloc. Burol, Paliparan, and
the Resettlement Area are on the eastern side of the city.

The city of Dasmariñas is landlocked. However, it is not too far from the coastal towns
of Rosario, Kawit, Bacoor, Noveleta andCavite City whose average distance from Poblacion is
less than 30 kilometers. It is about the same distance from Laguna de Bay and about 27
kilometers from the resort city of Tagaytay and the famous Taal Lake.

At present, Dasmariñas is served by corridors traversing the central areas which provide linkages
to the Metropolitan Manila area core in the north and the developing nodes
of Laguna and Batangas.

Topography

Dasmariñas is partly lowland and partly hill. The Poblacion itself is elevated. From an elevation
of 80 meters at the Poblacion, the land rises to 250 meters towards Silang. Generally, land near
rivers and creeks are rugged. Dasmariñas is outside the typhoon belt and has no fault line
constraints. Further, it is served by natural drainage system since it is traversed by several rivers
and water tributaries draining to the Manila Bay. The city has yet to experience floods.
Strongly sloping to elevated areas cover approximately 1,532.16 hectares or 18.61% of the total
area. These are dispersed among Burol, Langkaan, Paliparan, Salawag, Sampaloc and San
Agustin. Areas with slopes 10.1 to 18% cover about 575.72 hectares of land in portions of
Salawag, Salitran, Burol, and other parts.

On the other hand, gently sloping or undulating areas comprise merely 710.4 hectares or 8.62%
of the total land area while undulating areas with a slope of 2.6 to 5% account for the biggest
percentage of 50.59% of the total land area equivalent to 4, 165.64 hectares of land which are
dispersed over the municipality except Sabang and San Jose.

Climate

Two pronounced seasons: wet season and dry season. Wet season covers the period from May to
December of each year and dry season covers the period from January to April.

The temperature in Dasmariñas has been noted to range from below 60 F to about 90 F. Further,
south, however, where there is a higher elevation, the temperature becomes as cool as 50 F
during the Christmas season.

Demographics

From the original 643 inhabitants of the old Perez-Dasmariñas, the population grew and so did
the town. By 1888, there were already more than 4,576 people living in Perez-Dasmarinas.
Gradually, the economic life of the people improved. The inquilinos (lessees) of the hacienda
rose to become the middle class. Dasmariñas, 8,664 hectares were all farmed in 1890 except for
3,770 hectares (including parcels at Gatdula and Balimbing). Lessees paid the usual land rent
base on the measurement of lowland and upland riceland set up by the "uldog" (friar
administrator) of casa hacienda de Salitran. In the 1880s, there were 200 quinones of dry and 50
quinones of wet ricelands yielding some 2,300 cavanas of palay, 5,000 piculs of mucavado
sugar, 50 cavans of corn and camote, 60 piculs of tao and 25 piculs of peanuts. Dasmariñas was a
highly advanced town where not only textiles from Batangas and Bulacan looms, but also
imported European cloth from Manila reached the town elites. Fish and other staple food
however still came from nearby towns. Surprisingly until 1880, there was no public market in the
town. There was a principal public dirt road in Perez-Dasmariñas that went to Silang which was
passable to all kinds of vehicle only during dry season, but reachable only by foot and horseback
during wet season. By 1870, mails from Manila were received at a central station in Cavite
Puerto were it was sorted. Mails were brought via Kawit, then Imus then Dasmariñas.

Culturally, Perez-Dasmariñas was not too behind for by 1874 there were already two competing
brass bands in the town. Don Valeriano Campos, an inquilino and a former gobernadorcillo of
the town (1879 to 1881) organized one of the brass bands. He was popularly known as Capitang
Vale. He was the highest taxpayer and owned a house made of cogon and wood on Calle Real
with an appraised value of P300. His son Placido Campos learned his trade and also considered a
man of means. Manuela Monzon, another well to do woman owned a house at the town's main
street. The house made of nipa and wood was valued at P200 and was rented as a boys' school
for P72.

Nonetheless in 1892, there was a noticeable decrease of the male population. As conflict between
the friar-hacenderos, the inquilinos and casamas multiplied more people went into hiding in the
deep forest of Perez-Dasmariñas. The rise of tulisanismo in Cavite was often connected with
agrarian problems in the hacienda town owned by the friars.

Dasmariñas has the largest population in the entire province with over 575,000 people living
within its borders. The city has 75 barangays, has more than 170 subdivisions and the biggest
resettlement area in the Philippines, the Dasmariñas Bagong Bayan (DBB).

Most affluent families from Metro Manila and nearby towns and provinces have chosen
Dasmariñas to be their home due to its proximity to the National Capital Region. The mass
exodus of people here in Dasmariñas is also brought about by the industrial boom which brought
about more jobs. There are also a big number of foreign residents such as Koreans, Chinese,
Japanese, Americans, Hindus, Britons and Eurasians. Because of this, Dasmariñas can be also
considered as the "Melting Pot" of Cavite.

Dasmarinas City : LOT

C. Technical Description

Point 1-2 E 28° N 327.39 M

2-3 W 62° N 191.68 M

3-4 W 21° S 94.18 M

4-5 W 17° N 70.35 M

5-6 W 16° S 107.65 M

6-1 E 5° S 143.58 M
Review of Related Literature:
Interior Designs
 EXTERIOR DESIGNS

CHAPTER 3:

METHODOLOGY

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 NATIONAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Engineering Department
Amafel Building, Aguinaldo Highway, Dasmariñas, Cavite
www. ncst.edu.ph

In Partial of Fulfillment

In Bachelor of Science in Architecture

Project Proposal :“A Proposed Cavite Convention Center”

Submitted by:

Mariquina, Franchezka M.

Sanoy, Marra Julia

Alcazar, Cyrille U.

Aquino, Christian Paulo

Submitted To:

Mr. Isla

Date:

October 14, 2014