Why are houses in the Philippines built on wooden stilts to withstand floods, typhoons and intense heat? world news
Long before concrete and steel arrived in the Philippines, Filipino communities had figured out how to live comfortably on the hot, humid, and flood-prone archipelago; they simply raised their houses off the ground. The most obvious example is the bahay kubo, or nipa hut, a small house built from bamboo, wood and thatched nipa palm … Read more