ADAS – Summary of Services Offered

ARCHIAN DESIGN ARCHITECT STUDIO
Summary of Services Offered

At Archian Designs Architect Studio we take pride in our professional image and host a staff that is dedicated to making our designs a reality. We are engaged in all parts of the creation process, from engineering the technical design of buildings to construction management.

These are the Services Provided by Archian Designs Architect Studios. (Click to visit the pages)

1. Pre- Design Arcitecture Services.
2. Architecture Design Services
3. Specialized Architecture Services (Including Interior Design, Urban/Site Planning and Landscape Design)
4. Specialized Allied Design Services
5. Engineering Services
6. Construction and Project Management Services

For more information, email us through archiandesigns@yahoo.com or call to (034)433 3476.

Bacolod House Design: Bantilan Residence Garage and House Extension

Archian Designs Architect Studio Projects

Project: Garage and House Extension
Location: Capitol Hills Subdivision, Bacolod City
Architect: Arch Ian Jay Bantilan
Status: Constructed

Bacolod Home Addition and Garage Roof Design

Atty. Jerry Bantilan is planning for a long term

Small Lot with Tropical House and a Garden

Designed by Rockefeller Partners Architects this house is located off a walk street with great views of the Pacific Ocean and Malibu coastline. Its design is all about a careful space planning.

The site is a narrow 30×60-foot area but it includes not only the

Selected Best American Architecture Schools in 2011

Repost from: Architect Magazine.

Every year for the last nine years, the Design Futures Council and the journal DesignIntelligence have produced a ranking of the architecture schools that best prepare students for professional practice. The results are determined through a poll of firms and organizations that hire graduates. Many of the country’s leading firms participate; collectively, these participants employ more than 100,000 people. This year, for the first time, a selection from the ranking and its accompanying survey of deans, practitioners, and students appears in ARCHITECT magazine.

MIT: one of the best USA Architecture Schools

The Quest for Filipino Architecture

Repost From Philippine Daily Inquirer

Due to the Filipinos’ love for Country and Nationalism, there is an enduring issue that keeps coming up in the mind of the young Filipino Architect: the Question of having a Filipino Architectural Identity. Oftentimes, the simplest questions are the most difficult to answer.

I submit that we lack a strong architectural identity. This may be due to the numerous events that influenced our country. There are Moorish influences in Mindanao, Spanish influences in the Visayas and Luzon, and Modern American influences in

NAAB Accredited US Architecture School Programs

This is the most complete listing on the Internet of all the Accredited Architecture Programs in the USA for March 2011.

It was put together piece by piece – by following links from University Home Pages to their architecture schools, using our search engine Search ArchSearch.

Achitecture School/ University	American Accreditation
Architectural Engineering – Penn State	Architectural Engineering – Penn State
Architectural Institute of British Columbia	Architectural Institute of British Columbia
Architecture, University of Miami	Architecture, University of Miami, Florida, USA
University of Arizona – College of Architecture	ArchiWEB: University of Arizona – College of Architecture USA School
Andrews University – Dept of Architecture	Accred. Architecture Prog., Michigan, USA B Arch
Arizona State University – School of Architecture	Accred. Architecture Prog., Arizona, USA B Arch, M Arch, MS
Auburn University – School of Architecture	Accred. Architecture Prog., Alabama, USA B Arch
Ball State University – Dept. of Architecture	Accred. Architecture Prog., Indiana, USA B Arch, M Arch
Boston Architectural Center – School of Architecture	Accred. Architecture Prog., Massachusetts, USA B Arch
California College of Arts & Crafts – Dept. of Architecture	Accred. Architecture Prog., California, USA B Arch
California State Polytechnic Univ. Pomona – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accreditited Architecture Program California USA B_Arch M_Arch
Carnegie Mellon University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accreditited Architecture Program Pennsylvania USA B_Arch
The Catholic University of America – School of Architecture	NAAB Accreditited Architecture Program Washington, DC USA B_Arch M_Arch
Clemson University – College of Architecture	NAAB Accreditited Architecture Program South Carolina USA BA M_Arch
Cooper Union – Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture	NAAB Accreditited Architecture Program New York USA B_Arch
Cornell University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. New York USA B_Arch M_Arch
Drexel University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Pennsylvania USA B_Arch
Drury College – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Missouri USA B_Arch
Florida A&M University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Florida USA B_Arch M_Arch
Georgia Institute of Technology – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Georgia USA M_Arch
Harvard University – Graduate School of Design	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Massachusetts USA M_Arch
Illinois Institute of Technology – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Massachusetts USA B_Arch M_Arch
Iowa State University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Iowa USA B_Arch M_Arch
Kansas State University – College of Architecture, Planning & Design	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Kansas USA B_Arch
Kent State University – School of Architecture & Environmental Design	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Ohio USA B_Arch
Lawrence Technological University – College of Architecture and Design	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Michigan USA B_Arch M_Arch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Dept. of Architecture MIT	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Massachusetts USA M_Arch
University of Miami – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Florida USA B_Arch
Miami University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Ohio USA M_Arch
Mississippi State University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Mississippi USA B_Arch
Montana State University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Montana USA B_Arch
Morgan State University – Institute of Architecture & Planning	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Maryland USA M_Arch
New Jersey Institute of Technology – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. New Jersey USA B_Arch M_Arch
Rnsselaer Polytechnic Institutemicheal – Architecture Rensselaer	Accred. Architecture Prog. B_Arch M_Arch M_S
North Carolina State University Architecture Dept.	NAAB Acredited Architecture Program North Carolina USA V_Arch M_Arch
North Dakota State University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. North Dakota USA B_Arch
Norwich University – Division of Architecture & Art	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. North Dakota USA B_Arch
The Ohio State University – Austin Knowlton School of Architecture & Art	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Ohio USA M_Arch
Oklahoma State University – Graduate School of Architecture & Art	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Oklahoma State University USA M_Arch
Parsons School of Design – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. New York USA M_Arch
The Pennsylvania State University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Pennsylvania USA B_Arch
Prairie View A&M University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Texas USA B_Arch
Pratt Institute – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. New York USA B_Arch M_Arch
Princeton University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. New Jersey USA M_Arch
Faculdade Arquitectura – Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa	Architecture School Lisbon Portugal
Rhode Island School of Design – Division of Architecture & Design	NAAB Accredited Arechitecture Program Rhode Island USA B_Arch
Rice University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accredited Arechitecture Program Texas USA B_Arch M_Arch
Roger Williams University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Rhode Island USA B_Arch
Savannah College of Art and Design – School of Building Arts	NAAB Accredited Architecture School Georgia USA B_Arch
Southern California Institue of Architecture	NAAB Accredited Architecture School California USA B_Arch M_Arch
Southern Polytechnic State University – School of Architecture	NAAB Candidate Accredited Architecture School Georgia USA B_Arch
State University of New York at Buffalo – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. New York USA M_Arch
Syracuse University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. New York USA B_Arch M_Arch
Technical University of Nova Scotia – School of Architecture	CAA & CACB Accred. Architecture Prog. Nova Scotia Canada M_Arch
Temple University – Architecture Program	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Pennsylvania USA B_Arch
Texas A&M University – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Texas USA M_Arch
Texas Tech University – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Texas USA B_Arch M_Arch
Tulane University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Louisiana USA B_Arch M_Arch
Tuskegee University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Alabama USA B_Arch
University of Arkansas – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Arkansas USA B_Arch
University of Arizona – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Arkansas USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of California, Berkeley – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. California USA M_Arch
University of California, Los Angeles – School of Architecture & Urban Plan	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. California USA M_Arch
University of Cincinnati – School of Architecture and Interior Design	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Ohio USA B_Arch
University of Colorado – College of Architecture & Planning	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Colorado USA M_Arch
University of Detroit Mercy – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Michigan USA B_Arch
University of the District of Columbia – Dept. of Architecture & Eng.	NAAB Candidate Architecture Program Michigan USA B_Arch
University of Florida – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Florida USA M_Arch
University of Houston – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Texas USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of Hawaii at Manoa – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Hawaii USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of Idaho – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Idaho USA B_Arch
University of Illinois at Chicago – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Illinois USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Illinois USA M_Arch
University of Kansas – School of Architecture & Urban Design	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Kansas USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of Kentucky – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Kentucky USA B_Arch
University of Maryland – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Maryland USA M_Arch
University of Michigan – College of Architecture & Urban Planning	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Michigan USA M_Arch Joint Degree Program with Cranbrook Academy of Art
University of Minnesota – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Minnesota USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of Nebraska – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Nebraska USA M_Arch
University of Nevada – School of Architecture	NAAB Canidate Architecture Program Nevada USA M_Arch
University of New Mexico – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Nevada USA M_Arch
University of North Carolina – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog.s North Carolpina USA B_Arch
University of Oklahoma – College of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog.s Oklahoma USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of Oregon – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog.s Oregon USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of Pennsylvania – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Pennsylvania USA M_Arch
University of Puerto Rico – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Puerto Rico USA M_Arch NOTE: Site/Page is in Spanish
University of Souther California – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. California USA B_Arch
University of South Florida – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Florida USA M_Arch
University of Southwestern Louisana	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Louisana USA B_Arch
University of Southwestern Louisana	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Louisana USA B_Arch
University of Newcastle, Australia – Faculty of Architecture	Undergraduate courses and research in Architecture, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Building, Problem Based Learning, Professional and Continuing Education, etc.
University of Tennessee – Knoxville, School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Knoxville Tennessee USA B_Arch
University of Texas at Arlington – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Arlington Texas USA M_Arch (& BS_Arch)
University of Texas at Austin – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Austin Texas USA B_Arch M_Arch
University of Utah – Graduate School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Salt Lake City Utah USA M_Arch
University of Virginia – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Charlottesville Virginia USA M_Arch
University of Washington – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Charlottesville Virginia USA M_Arch
University of Washington – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Seattle Washington USA M_Arch
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Milwaukee Wisconsin USA M_Arch
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog. Blackburg Virginia USA B_Arch M_Arch
Washington University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog.s St. Louis Missouri USA M_Arch
Wentworth Institute of Technology – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog.s Boston Massachusetts USA B_Arch
Woodbury University – Dept. of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog.s Burbank California USA B_Arch
Yale University – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog.s New Haven Connecticut USA M_Arch
Philadelphia College of Textiles – School of Architecture	NAAB Accred. Architecture Prog.s Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA B_Arch

5 Points to Consider in Building Your Home in Bacolod

Patindog Balay sa Bacolod?

Building your new house in Bacolod City doesn’t start with the pouring of the foundation. A house is a work of art and is the product of the blood, sweat and tears of the entire construction team. But before the actual construction, it all starts with you. Costly mistakes during home design and construction could be avoided if you plan ahead of time.

Here are 5 Important Points to consider in Building Your Home in Bacolod.Basa lang di!

Modern Mediteranean Large House - Bacolod

1. Set Your Budget
The first question you should ask yourself is “How much will my dream house cost?”
Start estimating how much you can afford to

Bamboo Architecture: Green School, Bali

Architect Feature: Green School in Bali, Indonesia

Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably. Part of that effort was to show people how to build with sustainable materials, namely bamboo. They established the Green School, and its affiliates: the Meranggi Foundation, which develops plantations of bamboo plants through presenting bamboo seedlings to local rice farmers; and PT Bambu, a for-profit design and construction company that promotes the use of bamboo as a primary building material, in an effort to avoid the further depletion of rainforests.

The Green School, a giant laboratory built by PT Bambu, is located on a sustainable campus straddling both sides of the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, within a lush jungle with native plants and trees growing alongside sustainable organic gardens. The campus is powered by a number of alternative energy

Don Salvador Benedicto Mini-Resort Project

I especially wrote this blog for friends and family about the Don Salvador Project on our Lot. Please Comment so I can adjust or defend and we can think about it. Please keep the password I give you and you can visit this site, in case you’d be interested to see it again.

I will be posting a more significant write up and video when I see a greater clarity in this project. For now, I want to keep it low key. If you believe that sharing this link and password would help my Company,  Archian Designs in finding a future client, you may share this link and password.

Archian Designs Architect Studio – Advocacy

ARCHIAN DESIGNS ARCHITECT STUDIOS advocates 4 campaigns in Architecture:
1. Functional Spaces
2. Tropical Asian Style
3. Innovation/

Archian Designs Architect Studio – History

ARCHIAN DESIGNS ARCHITECT STUDIOS was conceived in Dubai in November 2010 by Architect Ian Jay Bantilan while working for Naga Architects, as he contemplated for an Architect umbrella organization to provide a collaboration between different architects

Archian Designs Architect Studio – Services

ARCHITECTURE & ALLIED DESIGN SERVICES

1. Planning, Design and Construction of Residences and Commercial Buildings.
2. Planning, Design and Construction of Churches, Schools and Government Institutions.
3. Interior Design, Planning, Space Programming

How to Create a Classical Building Model in Sketchup in Less Than 4 Hours

Google Sketchup 9 Proffesional - Modelling Tool

While we Admire the excellent fine quality of 3D Max renderings, we cannot help but be amazed with Google Sketchup as a user-friendly and extremely flexible modelling tool.

This is a project of a friend in Galveston, Texas showing a

ADAS Pre-Design Services

PRE-DESIGN SERVICES

At Archian Designs Architect Studio we take pride in our professional image and host a staff that is dedicated to making our designs a reality. We are engaged in all parts of the design creation process, from conceptualizing the architecture design of buildings and spaces to construction management.

ADAS Pre-Design Services.
These services are Studies that are related to the Architecture Services and enhances Project Quality before any Architecture Design.

1. Feasibility Study, Market Study and Business Plan.
2. Survey of the Site, Land Use Studies.
3. Architecture Competition or Design Brief Preparation.
4. Value Management.
5. Project Conceptualization.

If you would like to see other Services from our Company, List of Services, or know more about these services, email us through archiandesigns@yahoo.com or call to (034)433 3476.

ARCHIAN DESIGNS ARCHITECT STUDIOS believes that Architecture is an endless search for perfection of artistic and harmonious arrangement of man and space, with considerations with the built environment, nature, cost and the latest trend value and technology will always be considered, now and beyond.

ADAS Architecture Design Services

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN SERVICES

At Archian Designs Architect Studio we take pride in our professional image and host a staff that is dedicated to making our designs a reality. We are engaged in all parts of the design creation process, from conceptualizing the architecture design of buildings and spaces to construction management.

ADAS Architecture Design Services.
These services are the Regular Services of the Architect, including Schematic, Design Development, Contract/Bidding, and Construction.

1. Residences and Commercial Buildings-Plan, Design & Construction
2. Churches, Schools, Government, and Institutions-Plan, Design & Construction
3. Medical, Technology and Industrial

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Benchmarking Philippine Architecture

Benchmarking Philippine Architecture
By Paulo G. Alcazaren

Vernacular Filipino Architecture

The PIEP held their respective annual national conventions with the requisite seminars and talks. The subjects of these talks have shifted noticeably in the last two years from practical issues of competitive global practice and building technology to “softer,” more academic topics of history and concerns for architectural conservation. The UAP, which celebrated its silver jubilee this year, hosted talks that emphasized planning issues. The topics: “Proposed Land Use Plan and Zoning Ordinance in the City of Makati” by Prof.Geronimo Manahan, “Moral Values in Environmental Planning” by Sixto E. Tolentino, and “TheQuezon City Land Use and Zoning” by architect Gerry Magat. The rest of the talks featuredacademic discussions of conservation and history: “Architectural Preservation of Historical Philippine Churches” by Fr. Pedro G. Galende, OSA, and “Arkitekturang Filipino: Spaces and Places in History” by Felipe de Leon Jr., Regalado T. Jose, and Augusto Villalon. The UAP, which has a new national president in architect Prosperidad C. Luis, has also co-organized a traveling exhibition with the NCCA’s Committee on Architecture and Monuments and Sites. “Arkitekturang Filipino: Spaces and Places in History” was curated by two UP-based architects, Edson Cabalfin and Gerard Lico. Lico and Cabalfin shaped the exhibit to bring out the heterotopic quality of our architecture. They framed it as a process developed “out of contradiction, mediation, and transformation.” The exhibit’s visuals accentuated the physical and spatial texture of Filipino architecture, but the curators also endeavored to make manifest Filipino architecture’s cultural expression as politics, ideology, and power. That these two architects of the younger generation have pursued scholarship in architectural history, theory, and criticism is a good sign for Philippine architecture. Even more encouraging is that they and a few others have taken to sharing their research and insights as writers, given more space in print media and supported by institutions like the NCCA and the UAP. Intellectual discourse is slowly spreading and increasing in depth. There is still a restrained air in these scholars’ critiques, but the untested, seemingly shallow waters of public and professional appreciation may lead to an acceptance of architectural criticism as a valued part of the process of evolving a Filipino architecture. This discourse is needed, too, in architectural pedagogy. In 2000, the two leading schools, UST and UP, have embarked on programs to refocus their syllabi in response on current concerns for “green” architecture and greater exposure to aspects of heritage, and the urban context of emerging Asian and Philippine architecture. The UST under a new dean, architect Louis Ferrer, is restructuring as a consequence of its separation from theCollegeof Fine Arts. The UP College of Architecture, under its also relatively new dean, architect Cristopher S.P. Espina, is encouraging more research and its publication. Other schools like the FEU are taking more pro-active stances. The rest of the academe, however, is for the status quo, producing architectural graduates to feed into the global market for competent CADD operators and backroom designers. The need is for more architects of competence no doubt, but also needed are professionals of calibers with ambition, self-esteem and leadership. This is what we have to do internally. Externally we still need to project our architecture as our own and not just as an adaptation or mere mutation of foreign “styles.” One opportunity came our way through a piece of Filipino architecture framed as a national exposition pavilion at the Expo2000 inHanoverlast year.

Exposing Filipino Architecture to the World

International expositions have always been an opportunity to showcase our contemporary architecture and benchmark ourselves against the rest of the world. Notable in the Philippines’ past participation in these events have been Otelio Arellano’s salakot pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair and Leandro Locsin’s shell pavilion at the Expo ’70 inOsaka. After 30 years of absence, thePhilippinesresurfaced at the Expo 2000Hanoverwith a pavilion that reflected the state of Philippine architecture, just as the pavilions of ’64 and ’70 reflected its states in their respective times. Participation was made possible by CITEM, Department of Trade and Industry, NCCA and the German government resulted in the commissioning of architect Ed Calma’s pavilion’s design. Given a tight budget and little time, Calma produced a piece of work as distinctive in form as the two previous Philippine pavilions. While Arellano’s salakot was literal and Locsin’s shell was expressionist, Calma’s sensual weave of bamboo lines and planes was evocative. His basket-like construction of bamboo-derived elements created an environment, a deconstructed architecture that sought more to frame its contents than to contain them in a conventional envelope. Calma’s piece differed situationally from the previous two in that it was housed in a cavernous interior space instead of in the open. There was no need to aim for a distinctive silhouette or to bother with climate control. Freed from these constraints, Calma’s design focused on an almost totally introverted delineation of space and the temporal experience of moving through it as displacements of interaction with the various artifacts and digital images contained in the pavilion. Calma’s design was augmented by Melissa LaO’s installations. She used elements that unfolded from the logic and structure of Calma’s framework. These in turn contained the digitized or printed images and served as plinths for material that provided the layering in a texture that was to blur both message and medium. Unfortunately, the message or curatorial content was, in the opinion of many, decidedly less focused than the medium. The trade fair was the biggest in the world this year and ran from June to October. It was popular with the expo’s visitors. There was a recurring theme of the use of timber in many pavilions likeFinland’s. ThePhilippines’ contribution was in the use of an indigenous material, bamboo, which is gaining popularity now that appropriate downstream processing technology has been developed. The contribution of Calma’s piece to Filipino architecture was the experiment in the process and production of form based on the goal of projecting a positive image of thePhilippines. Issue maybe taken with this very goal as the image projected was one that seemed to overly commodifyFilipino craft and creativity. More disturbingly, it also commodified Filipinos themselves as entertainers or highly skilled exportable labor, adding value to economic or cultural enterprise in other countries, except our own. Calma’s appropriation of a foreign technology (the bamboo process is German-developed) as a tool for producing a Filipino form and framework seemed opposite to the message of our cultural and social displacement. This may be the gist of our architectural dilemma. Content and form in our architecture, our contemporary culture and the spatial and aesthetic expression of it, are either in a state of flux and evolving or dangerously dissipating in the blinding light of a globalizing culture. Exposure works two ways—we can move forward and use the process to further develop our architecture, or we can be absorbed by the resurgence of internationalism in world architecture. We can continue to “play” with fashionable form given the natural talent we have for mimicry, or we can strive (a term connoting conscious effort) to experiment (as Calma, LaO, and a number of younger Filipino architects have done) to make form and content have real meaning.

Warm Earth Color Filipino Design

Redefining the boundaries of Philippine Architecture

The year 2000 was a benchmark year for Philippine architecture. Heritage loss like the Jai Alai and the impending loss of other landmarks, such as theInsularLife Buildingby Concio and Locsin’sAyalaMuseum, have not been balanced with any new work. This situation pervaded 2000 save fora few bursts of creative flair like Calma’s pavilion and the continuing expression by a younger architectural generation in residential design. Major new work in progress like the Ninoy Aquino International Airport III terminal building and numerous towers in our city are foreign-designed, relegating Filipino architects-of-record to the role of glorified draftsmen, delineating our future buildings and sites under the homogenizing gaze of western culture.

The older generation of Filipino architects have, like Felipe Mendoza, passed away or, like Concio, retired into anonymity. Their work and contributions are unappreciated and much worse, mainlyundocumented. A younger transitional generation (back from stints abroad) is mainly practicing based on sheer talent, rehashing styles and forms absorbed from overseas as well as driven by marketability and fashion. With few exceptions, the goal of Filipino architecture has been to produce goods for consumption rather than to create environments that ennoble our culture and to discover viable patterns of increasingly dense urban life in the tropics. Physical tragedies, like the Payatas and Cherry Hills incidents, have caused the profession and academe to reexamine their environmental and social responsibilities. Our schools of architecture and the various related professional organizations have taken steps to acknowledge these responsibilities and to benchmark progress along more environmentally sustainable and culturally sensitive lines. Housing for the Filipino masses remains an unattainable dream given the continuing tight grip of the paradigm of sprawl and low-rise/high-density formulas for residential typology. Meanwhile, cultural and institutional architecture is in the doldrums, creating quickly crumbling symbols of political corruption rather than monuments and sites of civic pride. All crises and tragedies can be turned into opportunities. Philippine architecture should rebuild on the debris of a shattered economy and shore up the foundations with a conserved heritage and more substantial intellectual discourse. Academe and professional associations must endeavor to reorient the occidental inclinations of Filipino clients and the public, along with retrofitting the mindsets of Filipino architects themselves. The next year should bring a perceptible shift in the way we view our architecture and the process with which we produce our knowledge, our practice and our experience of it. This shift must occur, or the benchmark of 2000 may be lost in the mire of social and cultural miasma, brewing in the wake of neo-colonial, glossy, globalized, throw-away architecture.

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PAULO G. ALCAZAREN is a landscape architect involved in several major projects here and abroad. He recently received his M. A. in Urban Design from the National University of Singapore. He also writes a weekly column for the Philippine Star on architecture and heritage conservation.

Lubrico Commercial-Residential Compound

Lubrico Cluster Commercial Residential Compound
Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines

Here is the Proposal for the Development in Homesite for the Lubrico Commercial Residential Development.

The Concept is a 2-Entrance for Residences on opposite sides of the Lot. Then The Frontage will have rentable commercial Shops which can be rented by Commercial Establishments or can have an Internet Shope fitted in.

12-06 Lubrico Aerial Perspective

The Perspective Shows the Shop in the Front and the Two Houses in the Back with a Firewall Seperating the Two.

Lubrico Multi Family & Comml Clusters - Bacolod

The Lot is divided into 3 clusters – the Shop, The 2 Bedroom House and the 4 Bedroom House. Space is provided to extend the Shops because the smaller area we utilize for the first phase, the more secure we are compared to putting all the money on non-money-generating residential development. The Green spaces are courtyards or undevelopped spaces.

Below is a Simple Computation for the Commercial and Financial Costs.

	Area	Cost/ sq.m.	Total Cost	Cost by Cluster	Earnings / Year	Interest / Year (6%)
2 Bedroom House	50.00	10,000	500,000.00
Walk Entry	14.00	3,000	42,000.00
				542,000.00	0	32,520.00
3 Bedroom House	74.00	10,000	740,000.00
Commercial Residential Corridor	34.50	5,000	172,500.00
				826,250.00	0	49,575.00
Rentable Shops (2 Units)	36.50	10,000	365,000.00
Toilet (Common)	12.50	15,000	187,500.00		(3,000 / Shop
Parking (3 Car)	39.00	2,000	78,000.00		x3 Shops)
				716,750.00	108,000.00	43,005.00
Grand Total	260.50	2,000	2,085,000.00		108,000.00	125,100.00

Costs can be reduced by using Concrete Tiles and Grass for the living and dining areas. The Garage will not be concrete but pebbles. The Costs above does not include Demolition and Land Levelling for the Parking which may add to the costs. The Computation for Shop Rentals are dependent on the Area. For now the Shops are still farther away to the Market at the end of the Street. Only P3,000/Shop/Month is used for the Computation.

Lubrico Multi Family & Comml - Spaces

Room sizes can be seen from the Scheme Below. The Roof is Designed to increase ventilation because the Sides of each cluster is bounded by the other cluster.

Lubrico Multi Family & Comml Rooms

Lubrico Multi Family Residentials - Bacolod

And a closer view of the Bedrooms of the 2 Residential Houses from the Rear.

Lubrico Entry Perspective to House Bacolod

Here is a Perspective from the Front Street.

Lubrico Front Perspective -House Bacolod

This view is towards the street intersection.  I want to implement a new cheap technology called the Green Wall. To save budget, some walls are created with Hardiflex Panels and GI or Plastic grids for Plants to grow in between. The front shop’s wall is actually a Window covered with a Grid where vines and plants can grow. The People inside will be able to see the jeepneys passing by depending on the thickness of the plans.

Lubrico Side Entry - Bacolod City

This view shows the Entry to the 2 Bedroom Residence.

About the Green Walls, we have added some lighting and landscape for this front shop, and I am hoping, this will attract a better price for the 15 sq.m.(3x5m) Shops. It’s going to be great for a Coffee Shop! The final Shop inside can be the computer rental.

The Bedrooms are sized at 2.9×3.7 which are Good for 2 Beds and some moving space. We can reduce this a little more to reduce Total Floor Area by 5%. This would be large for a P2,000,000 Project with a small shop- earning capacity. The shops could be extended with another 4 Shops for more earning but to limit loans to the minimum, 3 Shops are constructed for the meantime.

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Bacolod House Design: 6-Unit Apartment Townhouses

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Project: 6-Unit Apartment Townhouses
Location: Bacolod City
Architect: Arch Ian Jay Bantilan
Status: Design

Bacolod - 6 Unit 2-Storey Townhouses Aerial View

6 UNIT TOWNHOUSE