Why houses in the Philippines stand on wooden stilts to survive floods, typhoons and extreme heat
- Long before concrete and steel arrived in the Philippines, Filipino communities had already worked out how to live comfortably in a hot, humid and flood-prone archipelago; they simply raised their houses off the ground.
- The bahay kubo, or nipa hut, is the clearest example, a small home built from bamboo, wood and thatched nipa palm leaves, standing on a set of wooden posts that lift the entire living space well above the earth.
- This is not just a quaint architectural habit passed down through generations; it is a deeply practical response to a country that sits directly in the path of the Paci
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- Long before concrete and steel arrived in the Philippines, Filipino communities had already worked out how to live comfortably in a hot, humid and flood-prone archipelago; they simply raised their houses off the ground.
- The bahay kubo, or nipa hut, is the clearest example, a small home built from bamboo, wood and thatched nipa palm leaves, standing on a set of wooden posts that lift the entire living space well above the earth.
- This is not just a quaint architectural habit passed down through generations; it is a deeply practical response to a country that sits directly in the path of the Paci
Sources: Times of India