Our house is considered to be the best place where
we can rest and do whatever we want. We are free when we are in our own house.
Our house, our shelter protects us from the heat of the sun and even from the
pour of rain. Aside from it, our house protects us from any danger and it gives
us the state of assurance and privacy.
Houses
are also part of our rich culture. It may also portray the way of living that
the owner has. It may symbolize simplicity and even high class of living of
those who can afford. The evolution of house also signify how people’s life
change.
Kubo: The
traditional Filipino House
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Our
country is always devastated of natural and even man-made calamities that may
destroy houses but ironically, the indigenous house of Filipinos is called
‘’kubo’’. The ‘’kubo’’ is usually made of Nipa, bamboo and anahaw leaves. Bahay
Kubo or Nipa Hut is the native house of Filipino even before the Spaniards came
in the country. Although modernization is a wide talk today there are still
many people who are still live in a ‘’bahay kubo’’ especially in rural areas.
We may also observe that there are also many people who prefer to have a
‘’bahay kubo’’ in their backyard to serve as a ‘’bahay pahingahan’’ when it is
hot inside their concrete house. It is good to take a rest inside a ‘’kubo’’
because of its natural ventilation that we can feel inside of it.
The Modern Filipino Houses
Maybe
because our country is usually visited by calamities, the people choose to have
a concrete house that can protect them from any danger caused by these
calamities. Nipa Hut or ‘’kubo’’ which
can be easily destroy if heavy floods came unlike to a concrete house which can
stand longer when calamity comes.
Nowadays,
there are many people prefer to live and stay in a concrete house because it
can give us the assurance that will be safe from any danger which the ‘’bahay
kubo’’ cannot highly give us. Through modernization, the evolution of house
continues to exist.
Whatever kind of house where we lived in the most
important thing is that it gives us what we need, the protection that we want
to have, a shelter where we can take a rest and we are free to do whatever we
want.
