Architectural Designs and ornamentations varies from From standard, Chinese, Americas, European to eclectic. Appearance varies from simple huts, later known by the Americans as Nipa huts, to mansions like Bahay na bato. These houses, are now known as the Bahay kubo. were made to live lowland, this newly formed culture, with most population coming from Austronesian origin, each having their own distinct traditions of Austronesian architecture, dating back even before the Hispanic period, collectively evolved a certain style of construction that has become synonymous to the lowland culture based on the Austronesian architecture.

Christianized people such as the Tagalogs, Visayans, Ilocanos, Kapampangans, Bicolanos, Cagayanons, Mestizos, Criollos, Chinese and Japanese etc. The advent of the Spanish Colonial era introduced the idea of building more permanent communities with the church and government center as focal points.

Vega Ancestral House, Spanish colonial era mansion, a '1st Transition - bahay na bato style' house with a walled silong (space beneath the raised floors) Hispanic Era

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