The ancestral house and the royal residence of the upper-class Maranao. It is commonly found in Marawi City and other areas in Lanao del Sur province.

A type of building originating during the Philippines’ Spanish Colonial Period. During Spanish colonization, the principalia and the illustrados integrated the features of bahay kubo with artistic elements from Europe and Asia.

Is made primarily of lime stone, wood and thatch. It commonly consists of two structures, the house proper and the kitchen or storage area.

Is said to be the “first pre-fabricated house in the world”. According to renowned anthropologist Otley Beyer.

Daily interactions happen in and outside. The idea of spacelessness in manifested in its structural design

__________ art is when the elements of a painting or drawing balance each other out.

Is a design or pattern of ten rendered or curved in hardwood, brass, silver and wall paintings in curvilinear lines and Arabic geometric figures

These are the outer two-floor beams through which the tenons of the secondary posts and wall boards are mortised.

It is composed of a hearth (pundapulan), firewood shelf (hug hug), and rice stacking shelf (palaan).