Thesis (BS Architecture) University of the Philippines Mindanao 2020

The study aimed to seek the basic composition of Filipino domestic interiors, in the context of the low-income, community-driven, urban poor communities across the Philippines.
As urban population continue to inflate, arable lands for habitation experience the opposite. Contemporary mass housing is standardized to the bare minimum in order to be cost and space efficient. In return, discomfort and dissatisfaction of the end-users with their limited house units is apparent, since these do not respond to their diurnal domestic activities.
Assessing the domestic spatial characteristics, composition, and the phenomenon of flexibility in the community-driven houses provides progressive contextualization of domestic spaces in housing. These houses mobilized by the Philippine Alliance involves user participation in the creation of these houses. Thus, having the end-users participate in the design and planning phase generates a strong participatory component influencing the creation of their interior spaces, and their total satisfaction toward their units.
A combination of quantitative and qualitative method was implored in gathering the data, synthesizing the results, and the interpretation of the data. The data was collected and obtained thru self-administered structured survey questionnaires and thorough documentation. The analysis was divided based on the main variables that the study aims to assess.