This thesis seeks to explore the impact that architecture can have on peoples’ relationship with food and its accompanying effects in raising the awareness of people to Pampanga’s culinary tourism. The concept of this thesis is that rail station can be designed in such way that it incorporates the cultural specialty of its regional context thereby help improve the awareness of people to the specific regional specialty.
I chose a site on the vicinity of Clark International Airport to locate my project, the Mangan Tamu Express Rail Station and Culinarium. This site is ideal for bringing people and food together as it is between the Clark International Airport and the proposed Second Central Business District of Clark. In addition to being near the vicinity of Angeles, Pampanga the centre of food commerce in Pampanga. The Rail station- Culinarium complex combines the rail transport function of the rail station, a small-scale food processing facilities for producers with a market place and restaurants for consumers. Providing an environment in which these ever-distancing demographics can interact would help reduce the gap between people and food. The goal of this thesis is to design a building that fosters a meaningful and productive connection to food consumption by bringing people closer to its source.

Balai-Tulay is an exploratory that seeks to address alternative concepts in approaching public housing in the country. The project primarily integrated a housing facility with a bridge structure as a bold statement for on-site relocation in the context. By combining the two structures, the project explores the new dwelling culture a habitable bridge has to offer. Various Filipino values has been integral in the course of the study to conceptualize the problems to the specific needs of the Filipino household.
The project focused on a specific housing tenement in Santa Ana , Manila named Punta that are in danger of relocation because the housing facility is already structurally unstable. Aside from that, the tenement is perched on a high-risk flood zone. In addition, the tenement housing is also isolated from the Santa Ana area. Thus, the habitable bridge must be tailored correctly to address these problems in the design.
The study also seeks to contribute to a body of knowledge on how air rights development can be utilized in the country. The concept has yet to be explored in the infrastructural landscape of the country in order to serve as a substitute for land development. Moreover, the study can springboard researches on air rights development that could streamline guidelines appropriate to our context.

City centers are rapidly evolving and developing. However, there are some vast areas in city centers that are underutilized and in state of blight which are commonly found in the waterfronts. These are called lost spaces. These value of spaces are underutilized and causes spatial discontinuity between the body of water and other downtown districts. However, these space offer a tremendous opportunity to be a maximized and be utilized by the community through revitalization.
This thesis seeks to provide a waterfront design that is socially-acceptable and fits the identified lost space in Binangonan, Rizal, a coastal town along Laguna de Bay. This study finds out that an in-fill district whose components are based on local realities that are anchored to the site really fits the lost space. The identified components are facilities geared to boost local tourism industry, facilities for cultural, social identity and community learning and water industry support facility.
Altogether, the infill waterfront development serves as a district that supplements the needs of the community and all in all boosts the macro-economic activity and sustainability of the downtown.

The Philippines is commonly recognized through woven, inlaid, and assembled wooden furniture. Its furniture industry is among the internationally well-known manufacturer of furniture in Southeast Asia. In the past year, the annual event of Philippine furniture industry promoted the concept of “Greenovation”, which encourages furniture manufacturers to use recyclable materials in designing furniture.
This study is a response to the advocacy of Philippine furniture industry which is to design a furniture manufacturing complex centered on recyclable production that showcases Bulacan’s craftsmanship in furniture industry. In designing the complex, the concepts of “Retro” which is about a vintage modernism and “Atelier” that talks about the intricate details of design are considered. They are translated into “tongue and groove” for interlocking connection of spaces and the intricacy of the design of the furniture was put into the fine details of the structural elements. The proposed spaces like the commercial area, production building, MRF and auditorium are interlocked together through the central atrium. These spaces are enclosed with intricate structural elements which created a vintage ambiance to the project. This proposed built environment for the Bulacan Furniture Manufacturing Complex, embodies the identity of furniture production in the city making it a catalyst for advancing the furniture manufacturing of the company.

In the Philippines, the ICT industry in particular the IT/ Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is already a very important factor in the country’s economy. This continued growth of the ICT sector is important for the socio-economic development of our country. While the Philippines continue to be competitive against other countries in the region, one of its main weaknesses is the relatively small pool of skills.
This thesis seeks to design a regional center for Information and Communication Technology training and digital literacy promotion in CALABARZON that would encourage learning, and collaboration. Taking into consideration that linkages and networks help accelerate information flow, the overall design concept for IKOTEK is that it is an architecture that focuses on social spaces to promote interconnectivity. It also emphasizes on flexible spaces to meet the changing needs of the users and the industry; and the application of blended learning through ICT; while grounded on the context of CALABARZON. IKOTEK, Impormasyon at pangKOmunikasyon TEKnolohiya, is a tool towards the promotion of ICT, development of skills, the growth of the ICT industry and economy, and to digitally empowered citizenry in the context of CALABARZON.