This has to do with the history of china being invaded and destruction being made.
Traditional chinese roof styles.
A crossed gable roof is two gable roof sections put together at a right angle.
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Hipped roof is of the highest level in traditional chinese architecture.
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.
Roofs are either built on roof cross beams or rest directly on vertical structural beams.
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Traditional chinese japanese other asian styles or modern styles for garden or business.
Such roof has five ridges and four sides all in the form of gentle slope.
A combination roof is quite literally a combination of types of roofs.
Flat roofs are uncommon while gabled roofs are almost omnipresent in traditional chinese architecture.
Animal decorations the hall of supreme harmony has 12 roof ridge statuettes left to right.
Many southerners chinese are actually northern.
The triangle section can be left open for an open gable roof or it can be enclosed for a boxed gable roof.
Often incorporating two or more designs for aesthetics and practical reasons combination roofs can feature a range of styles.
The roofs in both of the above photos show what liang ssu ch eng in chinese architecture called the immediately outstanding feature of chinese architecture.
There were two kinds of hip roof.
Hip hipped roof wudian roof see the 1st picture below.
It has two equal panels pitched at an angle meet at a ridge in the middle of a building.
A clerestory and hip roof for example.
In southern china why do the edges of roofs in traditional architecture curve up but in northern china they don t.
For this type of wood it is most often seen when building a hostel in vietnam you can refer to alo nha tro for more details.
A curved roof with overhanging eaves which a wooden skeleton supports.
Eastern asia hip and gable roof xieshan roof.
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.
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.
