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    Filipinos have strong family ties, with relatives often living together in one house. This is reflected in architecture, with homes designed around large family gatherings and allotting space for such occasions. Houses also have high concrete walls for privacy but still allow neighbors and relatives to socially interact. Floor plans revolve around communal family spaces like the kitchen and dining area rather than separate private spaces. Rooms are shared between family members when possible. Overall, Filipino home design closely follows cultural values of family, social interaction, and traditions that unite the community.

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    Filipinos have strong family ties, with relatives often living together in one house. This is reflected in architecture, with homes designed around large family gatherings and allotting space for such occasions. Houses also have high concrete walls for privacy but still allow neighbors and relatives to socially interact. Floor plans revolve around communal family spaces like the kitchen and dining area rather than separate private spaces. Rooms are shared between family members when possible. Overall, Filipino home design closely follows cultural values of family, social interaction, and traditions that unite the community.

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    Filipinos have strong family ties, with relatives often living together in one house. This is reflected in architecture, with homes designed around large family gatherings and allotting space for such occasions. Houses also have high concrete walls for privacy but still allow neighbors and relatives to socially interact. Floor plans revolve around communal family spaces like the kitchen and dining area rather than separate private spaces. Rooms are shared between family members when possible. Overall, Filipino home design closely follows cultural values of family, social interaction, and traditions that unite the community.

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    Urbano, Frances Diane T.

    March 1, 2016
    How Culture Affects Architecture
    The Filipino Perspective
    Filipinos are known for their strong family ties. A Filipino house is not only limited to the
    parents and their children because some families has their relatives or even grandparents living
    together with them. As Filipinos, we also grow up having many titos and titas where most of them
    are not even really related to us. We easily treat people who are close to us as our family because
    we easily connect and bond with one another. These things just show how our culture is centered
    around our family. We follow norms and beliefs in accordance with what our family implements to
    us. We believe in things fed by the people we grow up with and we do things with respect to what
    our family observes constantly. Thus, we then follow a culture we acquire from the people around
    us.
    Our family is close with each another that is why we live in a subdivision where most our
    relatives live. On special occasions, our families would not miss having a gathering. In our house,
    even at the time when we haven't had a car yet, we had a garage where family gathering are oftenly
    held. We allotted a space to cater occasion since my family gives importance to family gatherings.
    Despite being sociable with our relatives and neighbors, our house is bounded by three-fourths
    concrete that is as high as the average human height. This is for our need of privacy and
    peacefulness within our vicinity. Since my dad works at home, high concrete walls would lessen
    distraction from behind since humans are easily distracted by people and cars passing by the streets.
    Our house has two doors, the main door which directly leads to the living room and a back door that
    leads to the kitchen. The main door is only used when we expect visitors at home. On normal days,
    we use the back door since my family would most likely be in the kitchen than the living room.
    Whenever we have family talk, it is most likely that we gather in the dining area than in the living

    room. My sisters and I share one bedroom while our parents sleep in the second floor. Sharing room
    is not a problem in our family since my siblings and I are all girls. My parents' room are located at
    the top floor since all valuables are also located in their room. Hence, these valuables are off site to
    unexpected visitors and are more secured with my parents guarding it. We also follow feng shui in
    arranging and setting furnitures, water source, doors, stairs, and gate in our house. My mother,
    who's part chinese, greatly believes in feng shui which is why it is constantly followed within our
    home.
    The list of Filipino socio-cultual factors that was developed in class greatly reflects every
    aspect of how every Filipino home is designed. As we developed these socio-cultural factors, we
    did not just develop it base on self experience, but rather it was developed based on what everyone
    encountered within their own home. The list that our class agreed upon shows our common
    denominators in designing and it also shows how our family cultures relate to one another. These
    show that as Filipinos, we grow up having similar beliefs, morals, and customs. And that, this
    culture affects how we act and do things around us. In general, architecture expresses a culture
    through ensuing beliefs and norms of the society. Architecture is a culture's living proof.
    Architecture can tell us a lot about a person through the socio-cultural factors followed in designing
    their house. Thus, architecture plays a great role in depicting and identifying the kind of society it
    belongs to.

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