![]() Its most common appearance features an elevated, overhanging wooden upper story (with balustrades, ventanillas, and capiz shell sliding windows) standing on wooden posts in a rectangular arrangement as a foundation. ![]() The style is a hybrid of Austronesian, Spanish, and Chinese and later, with early 20th-century American architecture, supporting the fact that the Philippines is a result of these cultures mixing. It is one of the many architecture throughout the Spanish Empire known as Arquitectura mestiza. ![]() Its design has evolved throughout the ages, but still maintains the bahay kubo's architectural principle, which is adapted to the tropical climate, stormy season, and earthquake-prone environment of the whole archipelago of the Philippines, and fuses it with the influence of Spanish colonizers and Chinese traders. It is an updated version of the traditional bahay kubo of the Christianized lowlanders, known for its use of masonry in its construction, using stone and brick materials and later synthetic concrete, rather than just full organic materials of the former style. The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato.īahay na bato ( Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Cebuano as balay na bato or balay nga bato and in Spanish as casa Filipino, is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. ( July 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |