Mangyan - History of Architecture

LOCATED AT THE MOUNTAIN/HILLSIDE SIDE OF MINDORO

MANGYAN

PLAN

The commercial house is elevated from the ground at 1.50m to the surrounding platform.

This one room structure measures 6x10m and is rectangular in plan.

Flooring is made of smoothened smaller sapling.

At the central part of the house, leading from the main door is the called PALAGANAN. This passageway is at much lower than the platforms.

Visitors may sleep at the palaganan but most of the time it is used as extra storage space for families.

Flooring is made of large logs laid parallel to each other and attached to the joints by vines or rattan lashing.

Individual families are not separated from another by partitions, rather their space allotment is defined by a material spread on the floor and also by their individual fireplaces.

STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

Walls are made of bark of trees, and constructed about a meter less above the floor - this opening allows occupants to observe the exterior without having seen from the outside.

PROTECTIVE ELEMENTS

Gabled roof with cogon grass thatching.

Roofs are projected 1m beyond the wall for protection against cold wind.

CIRCULATORY ELEMENTS

The ascent to the house is thru a ladder of 4 steps, or sometimes thru a notched log.

The ladder leads to a narrow door which in turn leads to the palaganan.

There are no windows.

Openings are provided thru the space from the flooring, and the underneath surface of the wall.

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Presented by:Cea, Julius B.

Cristobal, Fluorsheim