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  2. Balinese architecture - Wikipedia

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    Today, the contemporary Balinese style is known as one of the most popular Asian tropical architecture, [2] due largely to the growth of the tourism industry in Bali that has created a demand for Balinese-style houses, cottages, villas, and hotels. Contemporary Balinese architecture combines traditional aesthetic principles, the island's ...

  3. Bahay na bato - Wikipedia

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    The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato.. Báhay na bató (Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as baláy na bató or balay nga bato, and in Spanish language as Casa de Filipina is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.

  4. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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    13 Modern and Post-modern. 14 ... This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of ...

  5. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Arched roof, bow roof, [11] Gothic, Gothic arch, and ship's bottom roof. Historically also called a compass roof. [12] [13] Circular Bell roof (bell-shaped, ogee, Philibert de l'Orme roof): A bell-shaped roof. Compare with bell-cast eaves. Domed; Onion dome or rather an imperial roof; Bochka roof; Conical roof or cone roof; Hyperbolic Saddle

  6. Bali Aga architecture - Wikipedia

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    Bali Aga village layout with house compounds facing a broad avenue. Each house compound contains individual houses, each belonging to a nuclear family. The bale lantang in Tenganan village, a distinctive feature of a Bali Aga village not found in anywhere else in Bali, is an elongated pavilion where the village council discusses community affairs.

  7. Architecture of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Nowadays, concrete houses are found all over Maranao communities, but there remain torogans a hundred years old. The best-known are in Dayawan and Marawi. A torogan is elevated above the ground by columns cut from trees of huge girth. Its walls are covered with plywood sticks and the roof thatched with dried coconut leaves.

  8. Balinese traditional house - Wikipedia

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    Balinese traditional house refers to the traditional house of Balinese people in Bali, Indonesia. The Balinese traditional house is the product of a blend of Hindu and Buddhist beliefs fused with Austronesian animism, resulting in a house that is "in harmony" with the law of the cosmos of Balinese Hinduism. [1]

  9. Bahay kubo - Wikipedia

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    A large bahay kubo with walls made of thatch, c. 1900. The Filipino term báhay kúbo roughly means "country house", from Tagalog.The term báhay ("house") is derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay referring to "public building" or "community house"; [4] while the term kúbo ("hut" or "[one-room] country hut") is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu, "field hut [in rice fields]".