New Model Housing Community for Philippines Gets the Landscape Architect Touch

The city of Iloilo in the Philippines boast what is being called the islands?EUR??,,????'??? first world-class mass housing community outside of Manila. It is called Providence Iloilo. The residential plaza in Iloilo was designed by Ildefonso Santos, ASLA, considered the ?EUR??,,????'??Father of Philippine Landscaped Architecture.?EUR??,,????'?? The practice of landscape architecture in the Philippines has been regulated since 2000 (Republic Act 9053).

 

Jeannie Javelosa documented Ildefonso Santos?EUR??,,????'???s work in this book published in 2004.

Providence Iloilo is a new urban community model for the islands, designed to have a balance of housing, jobs and services. Santos?EUR??,,????'??? structure at the entrance to the new community includes an egg-shaped work of art and a ?EUR??,,????'??dancing?EUR??,,????'?? fountain with synchronized lightings and music, said to be the first mechanized fountain on the island of Panay. A reflecting pool incorporates 70 some sculptured brass birds in flight and ara-al boulders. The environ around the pool combines greenery, pavestones and two walls of colorful mosaic tiles.