Floral houses, particularly those built during the last few decades of the 19th century, made use of revivalist styles in the form of influences from Neo-styles of Renaissance, Baroque, Byzantine, Romanesque, Neo-Mudejar (Tinio and Zialcita). Houses built during the period were characterized by more elaborate yet delicate embellishments in comparison to the previous Geometric period. Tinio and Zialcita (1980), of the Philippine Ancestral Houses, wrote that the Floral period for the Philippine ancestral houses flourished during the time of the 1880s to the 1930s. It also demonstrates the characteristics of a “Floral” bahay na bato. Moreover, the house is also representative of the proliferation of three storey high structures in commercial downtown areas outside Intramuros like Binondo. A decade before the house was built in 1890, the government enforced the use of galvanized iron sheets instead of curved roof tiles as additional protection also from earthquakes. Galvanized iron sheets are used for the roofing. The structure was typical of the bahay na bato in order to protect the inhabitants from earthquakes. The ground storey is built of stone and bricks while the upper storeys were made of various Philippine hardwood. Two of my favorite bahay-na-bato are Casa Vyzantina and Casa Luna.The Casa Bizantina house is a bahay na bato at the corner of Madrid and Penarubia streets in San Nicolas, Binondo. Called Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, this place combines culture, history and beach life. Some famous bahay-na-bato In the Philippines, there is a place where old bahay-na-bato from all over the Philippines’ many islands can be found re-built and refurbished into its former glory. This feature thus makes the house flexible enough to accommodate various numbers of people at one time, be it in one or more rooms. These doors make one whole floor of the house seem a lot bigger and more spacious when kept open, as in one grand hall. Massive double doors also connect rooms to each other. Here, the window sill holds two to three sliding shutters: wooden jalousies, capiz or oyster shell shutters and sometimes, glass-paned shutters (Perez, 2007). Other interesting features of the bahay-na-bato include a window system that runs along the volada. There’s the zaguan, the spacious entrance hall that also serves as a storeroom the caida or the living room the dining area the kitchen the azotea, which is a roof terrace and the volada, a gallery that serves to insulate the other rooms from the sun’s heat. ” The house’s stone material and its various rooms signify Spanish influences. In particular, these events were in 1834, when Manila began to take part in international trade and in 1869 when the Philippines’ elite, especially those in the provinces, began to enjoy a fruits of an increased trade and agricultural production through the opening of the Suez Canal.įrom the Philippine side, the bahay-na-bato takes the best features of its traditional bahay kubo (nipa hut), with its “steep hip roof, elevated quarters, post-and-lintel construction, and maximized ventilation features (Perez, 2007). World events helped spark the idea for the bahay-na-bato’s creation. This house reflects Spain’s deep influence in the Philippines, and how the Philippines has made use of this influence to create something original and suitable for the Philippine setting.
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