Why are houses in the Philippines built on wooden stilts to withstand floods, typhoons and intense heat? world news
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July 4, 2026
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…