BAHAY KUBO | Simbolo Ng Pilipinas
The name Nipa hut came from Spanish expression Cubo, which means cube, presumably on account of its rectangular appearance and Bahay is the Filipino word for house. By custom this sort of town abiding is built out of natural materials, an ideal illustration of an absolutely green construction, a grandstand of outrageous straightforwardness and maintainability that has been around for seemingly forever. The development of a Bahay Kubo is completely founded on the nearby requirements and conditions. Manufactured with the always reliable bamboo or kawayan and joined together by tree strings with dried coconut leaves or cogon grass. Dividers are made of nipa leaves or bamboo supports and the floor is made of finely split strong bamboo. The ordinary design is raised with thick bamboo posts, one to two meters over the ground, contingent upon the space where the asylum is built, giving the occupants a protected haven from wild creatures, winds and ensuring them against heavy rains and floods. Bamboo is solid, lightweight and adaptable; it has different, practical and customary employments. It holds and mirrors a large part of the Philippine culture and it is essential for some services, convictions and customs.
A Bahay Kubo is worked to give a welcome asylum in the blustery season and gives conceal in the sweltering summer. There are overhang type windows on all sides, which will keep the inside very much ventilated, and that can be closed from the components by a progression of sliding boards. Its steeply slanting piercing rooftop shed downpour and gives adequate space to warm air to escape as a cooling wind stream will enter through the permeable bamboo dividers and floor. The roof is high disposed and open gabled to permit fumigation; it is fitted with wide shade overhang, to give conceal from the sweltering sun and keeping the downpour out. A few huts have an open back yard or batalan , utilized as a storehouse for water jostles, a basement or silong is utilized for most family errands and a silid or recess for reserving the mats and pads after use. The space under the house is utilized for ventilation and as a capacity territory for food, or once in a while as a sanctuary for little creatures like goats and poultry. An unmistakable quality of the homegrown Bahay Kubo is a sort of steps or hagdan which can without much of a stretch be separated around evening time and put on the deck. Since the house is developed with regular materials which are extremely economical or most uninhibitedly accessible in the close to environmental factors, it can rapidly be revamped or fixed, utilizing straightforward devices, on the off chance that it is harmed or obliterated by fire or catastrophic events like a hurricane or a seismic tremor.
The Bahay Kubo is perhaps the most illustrative and perceived symbols of the Philippines.
