Bahay na Bato

Accessoria

Aljibe
Antesala
Aparador de
tres lunas
Arko
Azotea

Atlas,
Atlantes
Balconaje,
Balcon
Banggera

apartment-type dwelling
characterized by common
party walls shared by
adjoining units with
separate door each in front
cistern
see Caida
armoire with three sections

Butaka
Caida

Calado
arch
open-air balcony beside
the kitchen that housed a
cistern (aljibe) and the
bathroom and was usually
a work area" (Bambi
Harper)
"a column in the shape of a
man"
balcony
a wooden dish rack that
extends outside the kitchen
window. On the far left is
a tapayan/banga, an
earthenware jar that keeps
water cool." (Old Manila
Nostalgia blog)

Capilla
Capital

Capiz
window
Caryatid

Clerestory
Baera
Bao
Barandillas
Barrigones

Baul mondo
Bentwood
beech chairs
and other
furniture
Brackets

bathtub
bathroom
(usually wooden) railing or
balustrade
"buntis" (or bombere,
pregnant) grillworks on
windows, to accommodate
planters
traveling trunk
imported dark wood
furniture made
by European August
Thonet
series of often diagonal
braces placed in support of

Cocina

Colonette

Comedor
Comun

the volada on the second

floor
"a version of silla perezosa
with no leg rests"
landing on the upper
entrance hall; "foyer of the
second floor"; also
called Antesala
lace-style fretwork or
latticework used to adorn
room dividers and to allow
air to circulate
"long bench, a staple item
in the caida"
"topmost member of a
column (or pilaster)
mediating between the
column and the load"
(often) sliding window
made of capiz shells cut
into squares
"a sculpted female figure
serving as an architectural
support taking the place of
a column or a pillar
supporting an entablature
on her head"
any high windows above
eye level for the purpose
of bringing outside light,
fresh air, or both into the
inner space
kitchen, which was
typically built separately
from the house
a small, thin decorative
column supporting a beam
(horizontal timber) or
lintel (beam spanning a
door or window)
dining room
toilet; also called Latrina

Corbel

Cornice

Court,
Courtyard
Cuartos
Cuatro
aguas

Dapugan

Despacho
Dispensa
Dos aguas
Eave
Engaged
column
Entresuelo

Escalera
Escritorio

Estante

Faade

a projection jutting out

from a wall to support a
structure above it"; also
Braces?
a ledge or "generally any
horizontal decorative
molding that crowns a
building or furniture
element"
a space enclosed by walls
and is open to the sky; has
azotea or balconaje
rooms
hip roof, which has more
corners and angles, making
it stronger than the dos
aguas (gable) or highpitched roof due to
stronger aerodynamics
a platform in the kitchen
where the 'kalan' or clay
stove is placed
office; also Oficina
pantry
gable or high-pitched roof
bottom edge of a roof
column in support of the
roof above
mezzanine; "literally
meaning 'between floors,
this is the area where
clients, tenants or estate
managers (if the owner
was a rich landowner) wait
before being admitted to
the oficina (office)
stairway
a large chest of drawers,
commonly adorned with
inlay work
dining room cabinet where
chinaware and silverware
are diplayed
front

Finial

Fresquera

Gable

Gallinera

Gargoyle

Gingerbread
trim,
Running
trim

Kama

a usually foliated ornament

forming an upper
extremity
storage room for salted
food, etc.; placed on the
wall of the house facing
outside
the part of a wall that
encloses the end of a
pitched roof
literally, "chicken seat";
"usually found outside the
oficina of a landowner;
coming from the Spanish
word 'gallo' (chicken), this
church bench-inspired
settee is used for farmers
to place chickens on the
cage underneath in
exchange for paying cash"
(Old Manila Nostalgia
blog)
a carved stone grotesque
with a spout designed to
convey water from a roof
and away from the side of
a building, thereby
preventing rainwater from
running down masonry
walls and eroding the
mortar between
19th century Victorian
style of fancifully cut and
pierced frieze boards,
scrolled brackets, sawn
balusters, and braced
arches, to transform simple
frame cottages into one-ofa-kind homes" (Murvyn
Callo); "usually attached to
the eaves to make it more
decorative and to curving
iron rods that help support
the media agua
typically meaning fourposter bed

Kama ni Ah
Tay

Kantoneras
(Brackets)

Lansenas
Latrina
Loadbearing wall
Machuca
tiles

Mascaron

Media
aguas

Mirador

a once popular signature

four poster bed design that
was carved by a famous
Chinese furniture maker
named Eduardo Ah Tay.
To have this bed was
considered a symbol of
status during the Spanish
era
either plain calado cut-outs
or fully carved
embellishments usually
placed where beams and
columns intersect
especially under the
"soffit" or overhanging
ceiling outside house; also
seen to decorate door or
window openings,
hallways or simply
dividing spaces
kitchen sideboards
see Comun
wall used in place of posts
to bear weight
colorful Mediterraneanstyle cement tiles used for
the zaguan flooring; often
in harlequin pattern;
manufactured by the
Machuca company;
another brand is Majolica
an architectural ornament
representing a face or head
-- human or animal -- that
is often grotesque or
frightening
canopy or roof shed,
consisting of "a piece of
metal roof that protects the
window from rain or heat";
not to be confused with
awning
lighthouse; lookout tower

a strip of material (such as

wood or metal) with some
design or pattern that is
used as a decoration on a
wall, on the edge of a
table, etc
Oratorio
prayer room with an altar
of santos
pressed "tin or copper
Painted
ceiling from maybe late
metal sheet
Victorian to early
ceiling
American colonial period,
to prevent decay by
moisture or worms (or
even mouse)"
Paminggalan a cabinet where leftover
food and preserves are
stored. The doors of the
cabinet have slats so that it
can absorb air and room
temperature inside. To
avoid ants from coming up
and getting to the food, the
legs of the cabinet are
placed on containers filled
with kerosene or any liquid
window ledge
Pasamano
louver window
Persiana
Piedra china Chinese stone used to pave
the floor of the zaguan
false pillar "used to give
Pilaster
the appearance of a
supporting column and to
articulate an extent of wall,
with only an ornamental
function
aparador or cabinet for
Platera
kitchenware (chiefly
china)
horse carriage porch or
Porte
portico at the main
cochere
entrance
(from Italian) a porch
Portico
leading to the entrance of a
building, or extended as a
colonnade, with a roof
Moulding,
molding

Puerta
Puertita
Pugon
Punkah
Sala mayor

Sala menor
Sillas
Americanas

Silla
perezosa
Solihiya
Stained glass

Transom

Trompe
l'oeil

Tumbatumba
Valance

Ventana

structure over a walkway,

supported by columns or
enclosed by walls
door of the entrada
principal (main entrance)
small cut door that is part
of the puerta"
clay oven
ceiling cloth fan
main living room, place
for late-afternoon parties
called tertulias and dances
called bailes
secondary living room
American chairs,
considered the Monobloc
chairs of their time (due to
ubiquity
lazy chair
typical wicker weave
pattern in furniture
glass colored or stained (as
by fusing metallic oxides
into it) for decorative
applications (as in
windows)"
transverse horizontal
structural beam or bar"
often in floral tracery
design
a style of painting in which
things are painted in a way
that makes them look like
real objects
Philippine rocking chair
a length of decorative
drapery hung above a
window to screen the
curtain fittings
wooden window panel that
uses a grid pattern with
flattened capiz shell
panes"; often in sliding

Ventanilla

Volada

Yerong
pukpok
Zaguan

style, as opposed to
flinging out
literally 'small window';
"sliding panels between
the floor and windows" to
allow more air and light;
"usually protected by
balustrades which can
either be wooden or
wrought iron grills
an enclosed overhanging
balcony"; "a gallery (along
the elaborate system of
windows) which protects
the rooms from the heat of
the sun
see Gingerbread trim
ground floor (literally
"passageway" in Arabic) to
accommodate horse
carriages and carrozas
(processional carriages)

Is there such a thing as Filipino architecture.

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