Abstract
Authors have been conducting the field research under the title ‘Origin, Transformation, Alteration and Conservation of Urban Space of Colonial cities’ since 2005. Focusing on the Spanish colonial urban process and formation in Philippines, authors wrote several papers on Manila, Cebu, and Vigan through the analysis of the colonial maps AGI (The Archive of the Indies in Seville- Archivo de Indias de Sevilla) and data gained from the field. Binondo is the oldest Chinatown in the world. It is located across the Pasig River from Intramuros in Manila, this district was the center of commerce and trade during by East Asia and Europe during the time of the Manila Galleons.
This paper discusses the formation and transformation of house types in Binondo based on the analysis of spatial formation of house. This paper identified three basic building types, ie. accesoria, bahai na bato, camarin, then explains house types as combination of three basic building types.
