Roofs are either built on roof cross beams or rest directly on vertical structural beams.
Traditional chinese roof styles.
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In southern china why do the edges of roofs in traditional architecture curve up but in northern china they don t.
Eastern asia hip and gable roof xieshan roof.
A curved roof with overhanging eaves which a wooden skeleton supports.
A combination roof is quite literally a combination of types of roofs.
Animal decorations the hall of supreme harmony has 12 roof ridge statuettes left to right.
It has two equal panels pitched at an angle meet at a ridge in the middle of a building.
An ordinary dragon head decoration series ten 行什 unique to this roof an anti thunder monkey god then the nine animals and a fairy decoration.
This is strikingly different from most western roofing systems they put a lot of stress on the outer walls.
A crossed gable roof is two gable roof sections put together at a right angle.
Many southerners chinese are actually northern.
This has to do with the history of china being invaded and destruction being made.
Flat roofs are uncommon while gabled roofs are almost omnipresent in traditional chinese architecture.
Traditional chinese japanese other asian styles or modern styles for garden or business.
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Often incorporating two or more designs for aesthetics and practical reasons combination roofs can feature a range of styles.
Hip hipped roof wudian roof see the 1st picture below.
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Such roof has five ridges and four sides all in the form of gentle slope.
There were two kinds of hip roof.
Lantern 01 ashikaga style curled roof 54 lantern 02 ashikaga style curled roof 66 lantern 03 ashikaga style rough finish curled roof 72 lantern 04 four straight legs 36.
Hip roofs 庑殿顶 wǔdiàndǐng or 四阿顶 sìādǐng with all sides sloping were the classiest traditional roof style used for special constructions.
A clerestory and hip roof for example.
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Hipped roof is of the highest level in traditional chinese architecture.
Only the royal family and confucius had the privilege to use such style of roof.
