Republic of the Philippines

CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY

Don Severino de las Alas Campus
Indang, Cavite

Architectural Design 5

CULTURAL HERITAGE
VILLAGE
RE : 1

Presented by:

Binaday, Elijah Jirah J.

Oracion Jr., Ramon P.
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A CULTURAL HERITAGE VILLAGE
 A Heritage Village makes a very strong commitment to historical authenticity and the
concept of living history. It allows for a much stronger experience of immersion in history
than a traditional museum. Specific historical events of lifestyle processes that are too
distinct, delicate or complex are to be seen in video and film presentations, photographs,
archival documents, artifact displays and personal demonstrations to help visitors
understand the history and culture of the locals.
 A place where a traditional village is built, and the traditional lifestyles are exhibited.
Craftsmen demonstrate how they do their handicraft. The visit ends with a visit to the
souvenir shop.
 The evidence of the past, such as historical sites, buildings, and the unspoilt natural
environment, considered collectively as the inheritance of present-day society
ETHNIC GROUP AND THEIR CORRESPONDING HOUSE DESIGN
1. MARANAO TOROGAN
 SARINAMOK - is a legendary bird of the Maranao that has become a ubiquitous symbol of
their art.
 Maranao also known as “people of the lake” is the largest ethnolinguistic group.
 The life of the Maranaos is centered on Lake Lanao, the largest in Mindanao, and the second
largest and deepest lake in the Philippines.
 Maranao are one of three related indigenous Moro groups native to the island of Mindanao.

ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
o The four settlement principalities are known as pangampong, around lake Lanao in the
province of Lanao del Sur are the traditional population center of the Maranaos.
o These settlements hamlet, consisting of 3 to 30 multifamily dwellings.
o In areas where wet – rice agriculture is practiced, the houses are generally organized in
rows following the length of a river, road or lakeshore while in dry areas, communities are
smaller and the houses may aggregate irregularly near a water source.
TYPES OF HOUSES

 LAWIG
o Lawigs vary in size from field huts, which are raised
above ground on stilts with lean-to roofing and an
outdoor cooking area.
o These structures are mainly used for sleeping.
o These are common household structures which have
an interior hearth.
o Usually occupied by a single-family unit, the lawig is
not normally adorned, except for an occasional
wooden adornment that may embellish the window
sill or door portal.
 MALA-A-WALAI
o is a single room and partition less structure, is a house of a well-to-do families.
o Although architectural ornaments are present in the structure, the house does not have the
panolong – an elaborately carved beam extension identified with the royal torogan.
o The okir decorations are generally baseboards, windowsills and doorjambs.
o The house stands 0.3-2.2 meters above the ground and rest on 9 to 12 bamboos or
wooden poles.
o The kinansad, a bamboo- fenced porch, marks the façade of the house; the kitchen which is
0.50 meters lower than the structure is located at the back.
o The main body houses the sleeping area, which doubles as a living and working area at
daytime. to be found on the
o Chests, headboards, mosquito screens or sapiyay or woven split rattan are used to partition
the interior into sleeping and non- sleeping zones.
o The roof of mala-a-walai is made of thick cogon thatch secured on bamboo frames by rattan
chords or occasionally, of bamboo spliced into 12 halves or rangeb.
o Notched bamboo poles are placed at the fron and back of the house to serve as ladders.

 TOROGAN
o A torogan is elevated above the ground by columns cut from trees of huge girth. Its walls
are covered with plywood sticks and the roof thatched with dried coconut leaves. There is no
interior partition, so it appears as a huge hall. Apart from the basic elements of this structure,
it is intricately engraved with the flowing geometries of the Maranaw design system called okir.
A torogan is not complete without the legendary bird sarimanok being displayed inside.
Furniture is also common among Maranaws.
o The windows of torogan are slits and richly framed in wood panels with okir designs located in
front of the house.
o The communal kitchen is half a meter lower than the main house is both used for cooking and
eating.
o The distinct high gable roof of the torogan, thin at the apex and gracefully flaring out to the
eaves, sits on a huge structure enclosed by slabs of timber and lifted more than two meters
above the ground by a huge trunk of a tree that was set on a rock.
o The end floor beams lengthen as panolongs the seemed to lift up the whole house.
o The torogan is suffused with decorations. There were diongal at the apex of the roof, also an
intricately carved tinai a walai, okir designs in the floor, on windows and on panolongs. There
were also brightly colored weaves or malongs hanging from the rafters, it was hung up using
ropes around a particular territory for privacy. The house was built to sway
o The interior of the house is a cavernous hall with no permanent wall partitions.  Supporting
the kingpost of the highridged roof is the rampatan or tinai a walai central beams considered
as the intestines of the house.
o What serves as the ceiling is a cloth suspended from the rafters to absorb the heat from the
roof.
o A carabao horn ornament at the roof apex of the rumah adat in Batak, Indonesia is
distinguished
2. T’ BOLI
 The T’Boli traditionally live-in scattered settlements in the highlands in southwestern region
of Mindanao in the province of south Cotabato. The cultural heartland is about the complex
of highland lakes – Lake Sebu, Lake Selutan and Lake Lahit.
 The settlements are usually scattered but are composed of family clusters of fifteen
households or more.
 T’boli employ slash-and-burn farming in planting corn, upland rice, vegetables, and root
crops. The bulk of their produce is for household consumption, but some of it is used in
bartering for other household necessities. They are famous for several things, among them:
(1) numerous crafts, such as the casting
in brass of human and animal figures,
bells, and metal boxes; (2) elaborate
traditional dresses, especially their
ceremonial and festival attire, which is
made from tie-dyed woven abaca cloth
called tinalak; and (3) vivacious dances
and music.
  Each settlement would have a
ceremonial house called a gono bong (big
house). 

GONO BONG

 The Gunu Bong is wide, owing to the

practices and composition of the family
units living inside the structure, and the
casual observer may notice an absence of
physical partitions to divide sections of the
house. 
 The house looks like an entire roof on stilts
of 2m. The roof slopes low and is made of
cogon grass. The interior space of a Gunu
Bong is about 14 by 9m and it is used for
entertaining guests and also for work on
the intricate dreamweaving of the T’nalk.
 Instead of having different, separate rooms,
the house has areas for different people. The guest sleeps on the center called lowo and the
other side called the blaba is where the family sleeps. On the other end of the house is the
desyung, the place of honor, while the canopy is decorated with piles of mats and
cushions. 
 The sleeping quarters (dofil) flank the desyung, sometimes raised 1 m (3 ft) above the rest
of the house. At the other end of the house is the döl, the vestibule floored not with
bamboo but with heavy wooden planks. The utility area is called fato kohu along the wall,
and a ladder going down to the ground. 
 For defense from enemies, such as neighboring Manobo groups, T’boli houses are built on
hillcrests, with slash-and-burn fields covering the slopes below.
3. B’LAAN
 The Blaan are neighbors of the Tboli, and live in Lake Sebu and Tboli municipalities of South
Cotabato, Sarangani, General Santos
City, the southeastern part
of Davao and around Lake
Buluan in North Cotabato. They are
famous for their brassworks,
beadwork, and tabih weave. The
people of these tribes wear colorful
embroidered native costumes and
beadwork accessories. The women of
these tribes, particularly, wear heavy
brass belts with brass "tassels" ending
in tiny brass bells that herald their
approach even when they are a long
way off.
BONG GUMNE

 The traditional Blaan house is

known as “Bong Gumne”or Long
House. The House is
constructed on stilts and
a gable roof with only two sides
having a window. There is a wall
that serves as both a wall and a
fenestration. 
 Instead of partitions, the
dwellers determine the spaces of
the Bong Gumne by
its elevation. There are at least
six platforms, with varying
heights.

4. TAUSUG
 Tausug, also spelled Tau Sug or Tausog,
also called Joloano, Sulu, or Suluk, one of
the largest of the Muslim (sometimes
called Moro) ethnic groups of the
southwestern Philippines. They live primarily
in the Sulu Archipelago, southwest of the
island of Mindanao, mainly in
the Jolo island cluster. 
 "Tausug" (Tausug: Tau Sūg) means "the
people of the current", from the
word tau which means "man" or "people"
and sūg (alternatively spelled sulug or suluk)
which means "[sea] currents".[3] The term Tausūg was derived from two
 words tau and sūg (or suluk in Malay) meaning "people of the current", referring to their
homelands in the Sulu Archipelago. Sūg and suluk both mean the same thing, with the former
being the phonetic evolution in Sulu of the latter (the L being dropped and thus the two short
U's merging into one long U). The Tausūg in Sabah refer to themselves as Tausūg but refers to
their ethnic group as "Suluk" as documented in official documents such as birth certificates
in Sabah, which are written Malay.

 The Tausug house typically consists of a single rectangular room, bamboo- or timber-walled,
with a thatched roof, raised on posts about 2 to 3 meters above the ground. The structure is
generally surrounded by a series of elevated porches leading to a separate kitchen at the rear
and is often enclosed within a protective stockade encircling the house compound.

5. B
A
D
J
A
O
  Widely known as the “Sea Gypsies” of the Sulu and Celebes Seas, the Badjao are scattered
along the coastal areas of Tawi Tawi, Sulu, Basilan, and some coastal municipalities of
Zamboanga del Sur in the ARMM. Amongst themselves, they're known as Sama Laus (Sea
Sama) and are found living on houseboats where they make their livelihood solely on the sea
as expert fishermen, deep sea divers, and navigators.

6. SITANKAI
 It is called the "Venice of the Philippines” due to the use of boats as primary
transportation, although footbridges connect one house to another. The major sources
of livelihood are fishing and farming, although there is very sparse agricultural land
available.

7. MANOBO
 Manobo simply means “people” or
“person”; alternate names include
Manuvu and Minuvu. The term
may have originated from
“Mansuba,” a combination of man
(people) and suba (river). Manobos
 are concentrated in Agusan, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Davao, Misamis Oriental, and Surigao
Del Sur.
 The Manobo usually build their villages near small bodies of water or forest clearings,
although they also opt for hillsides, rivers, valleys, and plateaus. The communities are
small, consisting of only 4-12 houses. They practice slash-and-burn agriculture.

8. YAKAN
 The Yakan people are among the major
indigenous Filipino ethnolinguistic
groups in the Sulu Archipelago. Also
known as dream weaver having a
significant number of followers of
Islam, it is considered one of the
13 Moro groups in the Philippines. The
Yakans mainly reside in Basilan but
are also in Zamboanga City.
 Yakan are mainly inland-dwelling
agriculturalists. Rice is their principal
food crop, and historically they were
suppliers of rice to the Tausug,
the Samal, and other coastal (or
maritime) peoples of the region.
Cassava (manioc) and sweet potatoes are also
important. Additional food crops include corn (maize),
eggplant, beans, and other vegetables, as well as fruits
such as papayas, bananas, mangoes, and
pineapples. Coconut palms are grown for
commercial copra production.
 The traditional Yakan house, called a lumah, is a
rectangular structure,50 to 100 square meters
in area, elevated on timber posts about 2meters
above the ground.
MAH EXTERIOR
9. SAMAL
 Sama, also called Samal or Bajau, Bajau also spelled Bajao, Badjao, Bajo, or Bajaw, one of the
largest and most diverse ethnolinguistic groups of insular Southeast Asia. 
 The Sama divide themselves into two basic categories: the land-oriented Sama (sometimes called
Sama Dilaya or Sama Diliya), who are typically associated with a specific geographic location,
and the nomadic or formerly nomadic sea-based Sama Dilaut, often called “sea gypsies,” who
historically lack such geographic ties. In the Philippines, the Tausug term Samal is widely
applied to the land-oriented Sama, while the term Bajao is similarly used (erroneously, some
would argue) to specify the sea-based Sama.
OPEN AIR THEATER
COLOR SCHEME
MINDANAO TRANSPORTATION
 The colorful jeepney and the exotic tricycle both symbolize the Philippines, they perfectly
capture the carefree atmosphere of the Island of Mindanao and are the most recognized, most
distinct and the most unique modes of primary transportation in this region.