Architect joel muñoz who specializes in tropical design reveals that our ancestors with their traditional bahay kubo or thatched huts were right from the get go in creating roofs that naturally helped cool their living spaces.
Types of roof designs in philippines.
Light and earth colored slates also help in reducing the heat absorbed by your space due to its natural reflective properties making it perfect for homes located in areas with warmer climate.
They are known for their wave type appearance and are considered to be the most robust across the different variants of roof designs.
In terms of aesthetic aspect they are usually coupled in having a traditional look.
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Our traditional vernacular architecture shows very steeply pitched tall organic roofs joel explains.
The corrugated type designs are priced as the same with the rib types.
The older members of my construction crew still understand and use these old spanish terms.
These terms are a carryover from the spanish un tejado de dos aguas a simple ridged roof or un tejado de quatro aguas a hip roof.
The most common profiles are corrugated rib and tile spans.
Slate roofing looks amazing on tropical style or resort homes.
The millimeters corresponds to the thickness while the price is measured per foot.
Traditional philippines houses had dos aguas or quatro aguas roofs.
This type comes in a variety of colors and styles and also need little maintenance.
What we describe here is the roof system that goes on most houses except the very high end such as real clay tile or cement tile a few asphalt shingle roofs and the nipa or sheet steel roofs of the ordinary bahay native house.