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Bahay Kubo

The document defines the parts of a traditional Filipino house called a bahay kubo or nipa hut. It has several main areas including the bulgan for entertaining guests, silid for sleeping, and paglutuan or kitchen for cooking. Additional parts are the silong under the house for storage and animals, dapogan cooking table, bangahan for drying kitchen items, and batakui area for water jars. The bahay kubo is made from indigenous materials like bamboo and nipa leaves and is raised on stilts for protection from floods.

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Bahay Kubo

The document defines the parts of a traditional Filipino house called a bahay kubo or nipa hut. It has several main areas including the bulgan for entertaining guests, silid for sleeping, and paglutuan or kitchen for cooking. Additional parts are the silong under the house for storage and animals, dapogan cooking table, bangahan for drying kitchen items, and batakui area for water jars. The bahay kubo is made from indigenous materials like bamboo and nipa leaves and is raised on stilts for protection from floods.

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Name: SADIA, CARLOS FERNANDO N.

Course: History of Architecture 2


Yr & Section: 2nd Year AR21S2 Date: August 30, 2020

MODULE 2: Individual Assignment #1


Define the different parts of a bahay kubo or the cube house. Include the local or vernacular terms of each
part. 

Bahay kubo. A traditional Filipino house on stilts made of indigenous materials such as bamboo, sawali,
and thatched nipa.  It has swing-out windows with a tukod to hold them in place, a high-pitched, airy roof,
and is raised from the ground to protect its owners from animal attacks and floods.
 An indigenous house used relatively all over the Philippines before Spaniards
 Traditionally made of Bamboo tied together covered with thatched roof od Anahaw leaves or Nipa
 Originally, the bahay kubo is one-room dwelling structure with porch provides on all sides of the
house. Then, the bahay kubo graduated into a more sophisticated type of dwelling.
 Tagalog = “Bahay” (house); Spanish = “Cubo” (Cube)
 Seacoasts, riverbanks, roads, highways, fields, groves
 “Nipa Hut”
 Established during the pre-colonial period
 Shelter of lowland Christians
Nipa Hut (Bahay-Kubo)
 Parts:

 Bulgan – is the area reserved for entertaining guests


 Silid – is the private room used for sleeping
 Paglutuan or grill – is the kitchen or cooking area
 Silong – is the space found underneath the house used as a storage space for the farming and
fishing implements and also for the animals kept.

 Parts of the kitchen

 Dapogan – is the table on the top of which is the river stone, shoe-shaped stove or kalan.
 Ban gahan – this was later called ban gguera or banggerahan and is used as a place for drying
and storing pots and pans, drinking glasses, plates and other kitchen utensils.
 Batakui – this is the unroofed area where water jars (used for drinking, washing and bathing)
are kept.

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