NEW

IMELDA:
REDEVELOPMENT OF
IMELDA MUNICIPAL HALL
“Empowering Socio-culture through Critical
Regionalism Approach in a Rural Landscape”

BY: RENEL A.
ARCONADA
 INTRODUCTION
CHIEF LOCAL
ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNMENT CODE

RATIONALE
BUILDING OF 1991
Delivery of basic, regular and direct services
and effective governance of the inhabitants

BUERKLE, 2014 TOWN HALL AS A VENUE

Municipal Hall is where decisions for the
town are determined and it should accurately For different cultural activities such as art
reflect the built environment shows, exhibits, and festivals
 THE MUNICIPAL HALL OF IMELDA INTRODUCTION

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3 Figure 1. Front View of the Municipal

Hall
(Source: LGU of Imelda)
Figure 2. Municipal Hall Entrance
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Figure 5. Session Hall &
Accommodation

Figure 6. Public Employment Service

Office

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Figure 7. Parking Areas

Figure 8. Engineer’s Office &
Motor pool
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Figure 9. Access Road Entrance

Figure 10. Road ways

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Figure 11. Tatsulo Festival
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Figure 12. Shakoy Festival

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THE PROBLEM
STATEMENT OF
DETERIORATI
NG
 What are the design imperatives and strategies that
CONDITION, shall take place to address the common issues such as
POOR lack of supporting facilities and inefficient spaces of
the current municipal hall?
PLANNING  How can approaches in Architecture address and
& alleviate the problems of the existing municipal
building and the complexity of the site?
LACK OF SUPPORT
FACILITIES
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THE PROBLEM
STATEMENT OF
SUB-PROBLEM
1:

SOCIO-CULTURAL How can the redevelopment empower and

revitalize the municipality’s culture at the same
time take part on the global civilization?
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THE PROBLEM
STATEMENT OF
SUB-PROBLEM
2: Land reclamation!
ENVIRONMENTAL Large excavations!
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THE PROBLEM
STATEMENT OF
SUB-PROBLEM
 How can architectural design ideas and strategies negate
2: the current environmental issues of the developments in
the Municipality?
ENVIRONMENTAL
 How can the project lessen its environmental negative
impact and promote environmental-conscious design
strategies?
 INTRODUCTION
To provide a new image of a municipal hall

OBJECTIVES
PROJECT
1
• Contribute for a better governance for the community through well-planned spaces.
• Represent and empower local culture through architectural design strategies.

To redevelop and redesign the site in a new approach

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● To introduce ancillary/supplementary spaces for the benefit of all the different type
of users.
● To address the environmental issues and set forth for a new approach of a
development that lessens negative impact to the environment.

3 To be an ideal government facility that observes the standard health

and safety protocols of Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF).

• designing spaces that adapts to the “new normal”.

ARCHITECTUR
AL
OBJECTIVES
To design a municipal building with workable and adequate spaces
that leads to maximum productivity of the users at the same time
conforms with the health and safety protocols.

● By determining proper and strategical allocation of space in order to

provide sufficient office spaces and efficient working areas.
● By providing a fully-equipped and properly planned municipal
building to attain maximum workability for the users.
● To design adaptive spaces oriented to social distancing and other
procedures to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease; introduce
INTRODUCTION “servant-served spaces”.
ARCHITECTUR
AL
OBJECTIVES
To introduce and design a community center that will cater
community events and gatherings; and will serve as the main public space
for the municipality of Imelda.

● design flexible multi-purpose hall, open spaces, and parks that

resonates the community’s culture and will serve as a place for social
interactions.
● provide spaces that promotes the use of local materials in order to
recognize woodcraft and handicraft production as part the community’s
deep-rooted culture and boost local livelihood.
INTRODUCTION
ARCHITECTUR
AL
OBJECTIVES
To apply Critical Regionalism as an architectural approach which will:

● Serve as an architectural principle that embraces the irregularity of the

terrain and considers the unique topographic features of the site.
● Be an approach incorporated into the proposed project to be very self-
conscious to the local context and maximizes the use of passive design
(e.g. natural light, local climate) and the use of locally-found materials.
● Showcase building identity with global and local character in its design,
making the development a civic pride, a landmark, and attraction
allowing it to partake in global civilization while promoting local
INTRODUCTION
culture.
OF THE STUDY
SIGNIFICANCE
Who will benefit?
The municipal council, the employees, the people of
Imelda, the visiting public

the local culture

the environment

INTRODUCTION
to Architecture
 SCOPE AND SCOPE
DELIMITATIONS
The study is focused on investigating the issues and redesigning the
municipal hall and introducing a community center. This study includes
extensive survey of the site, conducting interviews with the respective
personnel of the municipal departments, and surveys on the interests of the
locals; explore information, design strategies, and explore case studies

DELIMITATION
This is an architecturalSstudy and will not anymore cover in terms of
management, costing of the project, and the organizational structure in
the municipal hall. The study will only cover in designing and providing a
facility that responds to the present issues.

INTRODUCTION
OF THE STUDY
SIGNIFICANCE
Who will benefit?
The municipal council, the employees, the people of
Imelda, the visiting public

the local culture

the environment

INTRODUCTION
to Architecture
 CHAPTER
REVIEW OF
RELATED
LITERATURES

II
THE ROLE OF
PUBLIC SECTOR

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
“Pillars of support for wellbeing in
the community” (Kagan, 2007)

each authority should have a Community Strategy outlining

ways in which they will move to improving the economic, social
and environmental aspects of their areas, and contributing to the
achievement of sustainable development (Kagan, 2007)

Improving governance- the way society collectively solves its problems and
meets its needs- is at the core of government strategies to reconcile economic
prosperity, social cohesion and environmental progress (Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, 2001)
SUPPORTING LAWS AND
ORDINANCES

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
Republic Act No. 7160 (An Act
Providing For A Local Government Code
of 1991)

Local government units shall endeavor to be self-reliant and shall

continue exercising the powers and discharging the duties and functions
currently vested upon them (Local Government Code of 1991)

Local government units shall likewise exercise such other powers and
discharge such other functions and responsibilities as are necessary,
appropriate, or incidental to efficient and effective provision of the basic
services and facilities enumerated herein. (b) Such basic services and
facilities include, but are not limited to, the following: (2) For a
Municipality: (vii) Municipal buildings, cultural centers, public parks
including freedom parks, playgrounds, and other sports facilities and
equipment, and other similar facilities. (Local Government Code of
1991)
 DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS (Office of the
Queensland Government Architect, 2010)

The government building should contribute to the protection of

ecological processes and natural systems at local, regional, State and
wider levels (OQGA, 2010).

The government building should contribute to economic

development (OQGA, 2010).

The government building should contribute to the maintenance of the

cultural, economic, physical and
social wellbeing of people and communities (OQGA, 2010).
 LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
Civic Building and Civic Architecture
(HMC Architects)

A civic center is a network of spaces or buildings that

provide essential services to a city or town. It can include
everything from government offices and public meeting
spaces to memorials honoring important members of the
community. (HMC Architects)

Design for Functionality, Choose the most effective

layout, Inject character, Offer community amenities
(HMC Architects)

Buildings should be true to their original purpose. It

should strive to create a better world and promotes the
value of functionalism: that buildings should be designed
for functionality (Tanaya, 2019)
COMMUNITY
CENTERS

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
“community centers have gradually become the major
infrastructure of service delivery in urban China” (Qingwen,
2005)

“Making connections with the past”

(Stiler, 2006)
The Carver Community Center in Evansville, Indiana, uses an
academic enrichment program to support neighborhood students. The
curriculum involves children in learning about African-American
literary traditions and folk art.

“Third Places” (Jeffres, 2009)

Creating such an inviting environment includes “third places” that
foster community and communication among people outside of home
and work (Jeffres, 2009)
CRITICAL
REGIONALISM

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
“Critical regionalism is an architectural concept that seeks to
balance local needs and capabilities with the progressive
lessons of modernization” (Bahga and Raheja, 2018).

“Critical regionalism can be defined as an architectural approach

that strives to counter the homogeneity inherent in modernist
architecture” (Henrique, 2013, Slessor, 2000).

Critical regionalism differs from regionalism in a way that it does

not resort to blind use of vernacular (Henrique, 2013)
CRITICAL
REGIONALISM

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
Towards A Critical Regionalism (Kenneth Frampton, (1981)
The bulldozing of an irregular topography into a flat site is clearly a
technocratic gesture which aspires to a condition of absolute
placelessness, whereas the terracing of the same site to receive the
stepped form of a building is an engagement in the act of
"cultivating" the site. (Frampton, 1981).

Re-evaluating Critical Regionalism: An Architecture

of the Place (Andreea Cutieru, 2021).

“There is a different way for architecture to move beyond

Modernism without returning to the architectural language of the
past” (Cutieru, 2021).
CRITICAL
REGIONALISM

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
Context-specific Architecture (Yeang, 1987)

Climate Responsiveness (Correa, 1983, Yeang 1987,

Henrique, 2013)

Materiality (Henrique, 2013)

Ecology and Landscape (Yeang, 1987)

Social and Cultural Appropriateness (Lefaivre &

Tzonis, 2003, Jain, 2000)

Technology (Lefaivre & Tzonis, 2003, Yeang, 1987)

CRITICAL
REGIONALISM

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
CRITICAL REGIONALISM DESIGN PROJECTS
BY TADAO ANDO

Figure 1. Church of Light

Figure 2. Hill of the
2 3 Buddha
Figure 3. Rokko Housing
CRITICAL
REGIONALISM in the
Philippine Context

LITERATURES
RELATED
REVIEW OF
In a distinguished critical regionalist building, the components of
the environment and the natural landscape or of one’s local
culture are integrated into the architecture of the structure,
instead of utilizing the typical global elements of one type of
architecture. (Architect Edwin Uy, 2020)

House No. 17 by Ar. Edwin Uy

 CASE STUDIES
Säynätsalo Town Hall, Finland

Defines Critical regionalism in

its design. Spaces are Council
chamber, library, apartments,
commercial spaces

Viborg Town Hall, Denmark

Flexibly designed and together with

the canteen, foyer and an adjoining
meeting room it can be converted
into a conference center.

The Qinchang Village

STAGE Town
3 Hall, China

Features design that fits to its context.

Offers recreational facilities and spaces
for locals to sell their arts and crafts
 CASE STUDIES
Tagum City Hall

this city hall combines a multiplicity of

disc-like geometries, prominent
volumes, and bold, even surprising
elements

Balanga City Hall

People-centered design.

New Government STAGE

Center, Bacolod
3 City

What used to be a vast sugarcane field

has now been transformed to a busy
development area in the city
THEOETICAL
FRAMEWORK
 CHAPTER III
RESEARCH DESIGN

In this study, the descriptive type of

research utilizes both quantitative and
qualitative methods.
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RESEARCH FRAMEWORK SUB-PROBLEMS
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Research Environment
Municipality of Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay,
with a total population of 26,020
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Research Respondents
The research respondents are mainly the
residents of the Municipality
The shall cover a minimum of 100 respondents.

The proponent will also conduct interviews to the

government personnel on the selected government
offices and agencies to gather information related to
the study. .
 CHAPTER III
Data Gathering Procedure

Primary data
Through observation, personal ocular investigation in the research
environment, jotting down notes, taking photos on the current
situation specifically on the Municipal Hall and observing the
environments, activities and also the behaviors of the community.
Second, is the constructing of survey questionnaires then to be
consulted to the ethics board for approval, then conducting online
survey through google forms, the questionnaires will be sent/shared to
the respondents within the locality.
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Data Gathering Procedure

Secondary data
preparing a formal letter to gather data to various government
agencies and offices related to the study. Before distributing the
letters, these will first undergo a consultation to the thesis adviser for
approval. The approved letters will then be distributed/emailed to the
respective government agencies and offices for data gathering.

The inputs of Case Studies will serve as guidance to achieve the most
appropriate and applicable strategy for the proposal.
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Data Gathering Procedure

Treatment of Data
The data being collected will then be treated with utmost
confidentiality and will be used for this study only

Research Instruments
reliable articles, books, and journals that are available in the internet
ocular investigations and observations, interviews and survey
questionnaires and various government offices and agencies
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