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BAHAY KUBO ( IFUGAO )

It is a small enclosed structure, a one-room affair that serves as living and

sleeping room, kitchen and dining room. It is elevated above the ground by four posts
made of sturdy tree-trunks with roots intact. It has solid panels for walls and tightly
thatched roofing.

The two main base girders the horizontal support (at the front and back) just on
top of the posts are held to these posts by dowels. No nails are used. The Ifugao carve
each part of the house as interlocking pieces, the girders fitting into the supporting
posts. On top of the girders is a single-piece structure to support the flooring and on the
four corners are the four king posts which bolt together the ends of the two base girder,
the side girders and the rest of the structure.
Two girders are placed in the right and left uppers structure to support the
roofing. A girder which is a one-piece structure spans these right and left girders and on
which rests the upper king posts. Rafters are made of seasoned bilaureeds and
bamboos or betel palm slats. The roof is usually made of bilau leaves of cogon grass.
The rooftop has side openings where smoke escapes. The walls are made of wood or
woven bamboo slats and the floor, of wood. These are also shelves around the four
sides of the house at the level of the walls. These are used for storing plates, pots and
other household items.
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SIGNIFICANCE:
The ifugao house ( bahay kubo ) it significance to their culture. In many places
the traditional Bahay Kubo, the original ancestral home is replaced by modern
structures, some of the original nipa huts can still be found clustered in barrios,
scattered around the rural areas. In coastal areas nipa cottages are build on stilts in the
water and on lakes a floating Bahay Kubo is used as a shelter for fishermen. At present
it is very popular as a guesthouse, a romantic hideaway for lovers, a favourite ornament
and recreational accommodation in private gardens and holiday resorts and as a
playground for children. The shape and size has changed throughout the years. The
modern Bahay Kubo is used for family gatherings and is an ideal and pleasant place for
blissful relaxation with neighbours and friends, sharing those bonding sessions while
discussing family matters or the local gossip. A Bahay kubo is an icon of Philippine
culture as it represents the Filipino value of bayanihan, which refers to a spirit of
communal unity or effort to achieve a particular objective
IMPORTANCE:
Bahay kubo is native and it is known as our national home or house. It is made in
natural plants in our country. Bahay kubo is very appropriate in our climate here in
Philippines because we experiencing various disasters, like flood and Bahay kubo can
help us in that kind of problem, cause it stand on four shaft or post stitch in three or
more feet from the ground. In that case, when there is flood the water cannot enter
inside the house, even the different animals like snake or dog does not. The bottom
portion serves as food storage or quarters of pets. When nipa hut damaged by flood, it

is easy to fix by Filipino, and also it is easy to lift up or to carry because it is lighter.
Bahay kubo comes in a Spanish word broad windows. On top of that windows there
was a very small holes that air flow, in case it rains while the broad windows are closed.
Under that broad windows there still a window hat will open only in night (I dont know
why).
DISCOVER:
The bahay kubo discovered during the pre Spanish. Bahay kubo, the first housed
of the Filipino in the philipines. Bahay kubo make an wooden or a bamboo. It is national
shelter of the Filipino. Made of indigenous building materials like bamboo and nipa,
this pre-Hispanic architecture was constructed to perfectly adapt to the tropical climate
of the Philippines and to be easily repaired or rebuilt once damaged by typhoon, flood or
earthquake which frequented the country. Its name is said to have originated from the
Spanish word, cubo, which means cube, because of the bahay kubo 's
rectangular/cubic shape.
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ANALYSE:
Bahay Kubo has transformed to the culture of the Filipino. Some of the bahay
kubo are in the province specially to the barrio or to the barangay.they give an
importance to their colture or their belive that the bahay kubo are still extinguished
during that time. It has part of our history.
Bahay Kubo is tall and steeply pitched, ending in long eaves. [2] A tall roof created
space above the living area through which warm air could rise, giving the Bahay Kubo a
natural cooling effect even during the hot summer season. The steep pitch allowed
water to flow down quickly at the height of the monsoon season while the long eaves
gave people a limited space to move about around the house's exterior whenever it
rained. The steep pitch of the roofs are often used to explain why many Bahay Kubo
survived the ash fall from the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, when more modern houses
notoriously collapsed from the weight of the ash. BAahay Kubo evolved into a cube.
Bahay kubo transformed to bahay na bato. Bahay kubo can help us in that kind of
problem, cause it stand on four shaft or post stitch in three or more feet from the
ground. In that case, when there is flood the water cannot enter inside the house, even
the different animals like snake or dog does not.