One fine day at Bacolod's Balay Bato of Rusty Binas
One of the admirable traits of this house is its being built for a fairy tale, wherein the goddess of a verdant forest has to remain true to her environment despite her being placed by her circumstance in an urban setting called a subdivision in the heart of Bacolod City. Only a child by heart can appreciate this house made to dance with and among nature. Visit and delight yourself with a house made of stones to withstand the typhoon, open-walled in some areas to welcome the air, glass windows to let the light come in, growing pine trees along the winding stairway design so as not to cut the same, a semi-underground amphitheater with stone walls, walls with colorful paintings, vines occupying the floors, a hilltop view on top of the roof. Endless. While this is not a museum or ecological site or a sanctuary, they are all like that for a home actually habited by people. Yes, there are residents there. Of course, the admirable fact is that the house is also ...