TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES

363 P.CASAL ST. QUIAPO,MANILA

ARCH 303
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 4
PART 3 AND 4(SPIRITUAL OF THE PLACE AND CULTURAL
SIGNIFICANCE)

MEMBERS:
BERMUNDO,RHEA C.
CORTEZ ,ARIAN KHATE B.
DECANO,YAHWEH
MADARANG,KASSANDRA P.
RAMIRO,ANNE NICOLE
PADUA,CK
AR32FA3 SUBMITTED TO :
AR.ELMER SOLIMAN
 PART 3 SPIRIT OF PLACE
SPIRIT OF SIGNIFICANCE
THE BUILDING SERVED AS A CENTRAL TREASURY.IN THE 20TH CENTURY IT
BECAME THE CENTRAL BANK BUILDING AND CEMENT VAULT WAS BUILT IN THE
ATRIUM. THE BUILDING WAS DAMAGE BY WAR BUT IT WAS REPAIRED AND
REMAINED .

TODAY,ADUANA IS A STREET, IT IS SORIANO AVENUE IN INSTRAMUROS BUT I’TS

NOT ATTRACTION .ADUANA ACTUALLY IS A COLONIAL BUILDING KNOWN AS
INTENDENCIA WHICH IS ONE OF THE LIST OF CULTURAL PROPERTIES OF THE
PHILIPPINES ADUANA OR CUSTOM PROPERTIES OF THE PHILIPPINES. RESTORATION
EFFORT IS NECESSARY TO PRESERVE THE HERITAGE ADUANA BUT SAD TO SAY
INFORMAL SETTLERS DOMINATED IN THE AREA OF ADUANA ALONG ADUANA AND
MURULLA STREET AND ANYWHERE ELESE WITHIN INTRAMUROS. SCARRY ,IT FEELS
VERY UNSAFE IN THE AREA ,SQUATTERS ARE TOTAL TURN OFF TO TOURIST.

SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO REACTED AND THEIR EXPERIENCES ABOUT THE
SURROUNDINGS TODAY OF ADUANA.:

“ IT’S JUST A ROAD,PERFECTLY FINE BECAUSE IT WAS EASILY TO LOCATE.YOU

WILL SEE
A TAXI OR KALESA PARKING IN HERE. IF YOU ARE LOOKING A TAXI THIS IS THE
PLACE
WHERE YOU CAN GO BECAUSE MOST OF THE TRANSPORTATION IS IN HERE.”

“JUST AN OLD RUIN”

“NO DOUBT THIS HISTORIC BUILDING COULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL VALUE
BUT FOR TOURISTS WHO DO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS, IT MAY SEEM LIKE AN
ORDINARY BUILDING IN DECAY. LOCATED WITHIN INTRAMUROS ALONG THE MAIN ADUANA
STREET JUST FEW STEPS FROM THE CATHEDRAL AND PASIG RIVER. AN ABANDONED NEGLECT
BUILDINGWHICH IT COULD BE EVALUATED AND BECOME A TOURIST DESTINATION..”

PART 4: CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

LOOKING AT THE BUILDING NOW ,ONE MIGHT TEMPT TO SAY THAT WORLD
WAR II BROUGHT ITS DESTRUCTION .WHILE IT DID SUFFER FROM ARTILLERY AND
BOMBINGS DURING THE WAR ,WORLD WAR II DID NOT BRING ABOUT IT’S DEMISE . IN
FACT ,THE BUILDING WAS RESTORED AFTER WAR SERVED AS OFFICE OF THE CENTRAL
BANK THEN THE TREASURY AND COMMISSION OF ELECTIONS. A FIRE IN 1979 PUT AN
END TO THE FUNCTIONS THE BUILDING HAS SERVED AND WAS EVENTUALLY
ABANDONED.

BUT ALL IS NOT LOST AS PLANS ARE UNDERWAY FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE
ADUANA /INTENDENCIA TO BE USED AS THE FUTURE HOME OF THE NATIONAL
ACHIVES. AS OF THIS WRITING THOUGH NOT MUCH ACTIVITY IS BEING DONE FOR
RESTORATION DUE TO, UNDERSTANDABLY ,CURRENT PROBLEMS WITH FUNDING . A
PROBLEM THAT IS FACING MANY OUR HERITAGE STRUCTURES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR
PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION.

WHY DO WE NEED TO PRESERVED OR RESTORE THE OLD HERITAGE TODAY?

CONCLUSION:
WE THEREFORE CONCLUDE THE ADUANA IS PART OF THE OLD HERITAGE OF
OUR COUNTRY . IT DESIGNATED THE STRUCTURE FOR THE PAST EXPERIENCE OR IT’S
PURPOSE TO THEM. IN ARCHITECTURAL REASONS IT IS APPRECIATED AS AN ART OF
DESIGN FOR THE PAST YEARS. HISTORIC BUILDINGS ARE PHYSICAL LINKS TO OUR PAST
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT SAVING THE SURVIVAL MATERIALS BUT WE PRESERVED THE
LAYERS OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIVES AND THOSE OF OUR ANCESTOR . WITHOUT
THAT WE ERASE THE STORIES OF OUR PAST AS IF THE PEOPLE WHO CAME BEFORE US.