The Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Pilot Project of a Bahay Kubo Inspired Floating Home

Pieter H. Ham

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The Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Pilot Project of a Bahay Kubo Inspired Floating Home

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In the overpopulated deltas of the Philippines people live in are-as that see floods regularly. The floods are being caused by a com-bination of tides, heavy rainfall and land subsidence. The demand for safe and affordable housing is immense, yet available dry land is scarce. By implementing floating homes in vacant former rice fields, demanded new building space is becoming available. To come to a sustainable design that fits in the Pampanga Delta, traditional building designs as the Bahay Kubo have been analysed. Many aspects of this design correspond with modern sustainable development goals. By means of parametric building simulations, key aspects of the Bahay Kubo have been used to provide the home with good performances in indoor climate and structural behavior. Now the first pilot building has been built, the home is being tested for validating the parametric models and to evaluate the building design. The first round of test results has led to proper insights in indoor climate, user friendliness, and affordability. Initial design improvements have been made and will be used in upcoming developments such as the construction of a floating neighborhood and the construction of floating classrooms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WCFS2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Floating Solutions
Editors	Lukasz Piatek, Soon Heng Lim, Chien Ming Wang, Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
Publisher	Springer
Pages	67-79
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811622564
ISBN (Print)	9789811622557
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2256-4_4
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	2nd World Conference on Floating Solutions, WCFS 2020: Paving the Waves - Virtual, Online, Netherlands Duration: 6 Oct 2020 → 8 Oct 2020

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Volume	158
ISSN (Print)	2366-2557
ISSN (Electronic)	2366-2565

Conference

Conference	2nd World Conference on Floating Solutions, WCFS 2020
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Virtual, Online
Period	6/10/20 → 8/10/20

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Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Affordability
Floating architecture
Flood events
Pilot building
Vernacular

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Ham, PH 2022, The Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Pilot Project of a Bahay Kubo Inspired Floating Home. in L Piatek, SH Lim, CM Wang & RDG Dinther (eds), WCFS2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Floating Solutions. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol. 158, Springer, pp. 67-79, 2nd World Conference on Floating Solutions, WCFS 2020, Virtual, Online, Netherlands, 6/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2256-4_4

The Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Pilot Project of a Bahay Kubo Inspired Floating Home. / Ham, Pieter H.
WCFS2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Floating Solutions. ed. / Lukasz Piatek; Soon Heng Lim; Chien Ming Wang; Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther. Springer, 2022. p. 67-79 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering; Vol. 158).

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