Architectural Types

Domestic Architecture

Architecture designed for individuals, families, or clans. Provides shelter and security for basic physical needs like sleeping, cooking, eating, and working. Features include walls, roof, door, window, and hearth.

Religious and Sacred Architecture

Structures devoted to worship and spiritual devotion. Provide shelter for religious images, relics, rituals, and sacred spaces. Includes churches, mosques, shrines, sacred grounds, and funerary monuments.

Government and State Architecture

Buildings for government functions such as administration, lawmaking, and justice. Examples: presidential palaces, capitol buildings, city halls, courthouses, prisons, barangay halls.

Recreational Architecture

Structures for leisure and rejuvenation of mind and body. Includes gyms, sports arenas, spas, theaters, museums, libraries, hotels, malls, casinos, and swimming pools.

Welfare and Educational Architecture

Buildings that serve public welfare and education, including schools, hospitals, training centers, rehabilitation facilities, and hospices.

Commercial and Industrial Architecture

Structures for economic, trade, and industrial functions. Includes offices, markets, banks, factories, bridges, dams, fuel storage, and power distribution sites.