Short answer. Yes, at least for voluntary dissolution. The Rules of Court expressly list voluntary dissolution of corporations among the matters governed by the rules on special proceedings, a different track from the ordinary civil actions used to resolve a dispute between opposing parties.
What the law says
Rules of special proceedings are provided for in the following cases: (a) Settlement of estate of deceased persons; (b) Escheat; (c) Guardianship and custody of children; (d) Trustees; (e) Adoption; (f) Rescission and revocation of adoption; (g) Hospitalization of insane persons; (h) Habeas corpus; (i) Change of name; (j) Voluntary dissolution of corporations
Rule 72, Section 1 — Subject matter of special proceedings. Read the full provision →
Voluntary dissolution is named on the list
The Rules of Court set out a specific list of matters that are handled under the rules on special proceedings, and voluntary dissolution of corporations is one of the items named on it. That placement is deliberate — it puts winding up a corporation by its own choice in the same procedural category as things like settling a deceased person's estate, guardianship, adoption, and a change of name, rather than treating it as a dispute between two sides that a court has to adjudicate. Dissolving a corporation voluntarily is, procedurally, closer to those matters than to a contract or damages case.
What sets a special proceeding apart from an ordinary lawsuit
Looking at the full list is useful here, because the pattern across it is consistent: settlement of an estate, guardianship, adoption, a declaration of absence, correcting an entry in the civil registry — each one asks a court to establish, recognize, or change a status or fact, rather than to resolve a claim that one party is pressing against another. There is no adverse party in the same sense an ordinary civil case has a plaintiff against a defendant. Voluntary dissolution fits that same shape: the corporation itself is asking the court to recognize that it is winding up, not asking the court to rule against someone else.
Why this classification matters
Being governed by the rules on special proceedings rather than the rules for ordinary civil actions means a different procedural framework applies to how the matter is brought before the court and handled once there. The distinction is not a technicality without consequence — special proceedings and ordinary actions are structured differently throughout the Rules of Court precisely because they are answering different kinds of questions. Knowing that voluntary dissolution sits on the special-proceedings side tells you which broad set of procedural rules governs the matter, even without spelling out every step involved.
This covers voluntary dissolution specifically
It is worth being precise about scope: the list names voluntary dissolution of corporations, meaning dissolution the corporation itself initiates. It does not, on its face, say anything about a corporation being dissolved involuntarily — for example, through action taken against it rather than by it. If your situation involves a dissolution that was not the corporation's own choice, this particular classification as a special proceeding should not be assumed to carry over automatically, since the rule as written speaks only to the voluntary case.