Traditional Chinese Roof Styles

The triangle section can be left open for an open gable roof or it can be enclosed for a boxed gable roof.

Traditional chinese roof styles.

There were two kinds of hip 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 has to do with the history of china being invaded and destruction being made. Hipped roof is of the highest level in traditional chinese architecture.

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. Often incorporating two or more designs for aesthetics and practical reasons combination roofs can feature a range of styles. Our company s main products are traditional glazed roof tiles unglazed grey roof tiles s shape tiles fish scale tiles and their matched whole set accessories. It has two equal panels pitched at an angle meet at a ridge in the middle of a building.

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. Animal decorations the hall of supreme harmony has 12 roof ridge statuettes left to right. Hip hipped roof wudian roof see the 1st picture below. A combination roof is quite literally a combination of types of roofs.

This is strikingly different from most western roofing systems they put a lot of stress on the outer walls. Only the royal family and confucius had the privilege to use such style of roof. Traditional chinese japanese other asian styles or modern styles for garden or business. A crossed gable roof is two gable roof sections put together at a right angle.

A clerestory and hip roof for example. Flat roofs are uncommon while gabled roofs are almost omnipresent in traditional chinese architecture. Read more on traditional chinese roof 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.

A curved roof with overhanging eaves which a wooden skeleton supports. 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. Roofs are either built on roof cross beams or rest directly on vertical structural beams. Many southerners chinese are actually northern.

Eastern asia hip and gable roof xieshan roof. In southern china why do the edges of roofs in traditional architecture curve up but in northern china they don t.