Hip hipped roof wudian roof see the 1st picture below hipped roof is of the highest level in traditional chinese.
Types of roofs in traditional chinese architecture.
A curved roof with overhanging eaves which a wooden skeleton supports.
The stele pavilion gives a roof to a stone tablet to protect the engraved record of an important event.
Eastern asia hip and gable roof xieshan roof see the 2nd picture below the roof on the building in front of us is.
Tiles were the most common material used for ancient chinese roofs.
A traditional chinese roof with 8 facades which could be either single or double eaves.
Pavilions also stand by bridges or over water wells.
This type of roof allows the structure with three facades normally used on a small garden pavilion.
This is strikingly different from most western roofing systems they put a lot of stress on the outer walls.
Traditional chinese roofs on garden structures round roof.
There is no evidence of the dome in chinese architecture unnecessary in any case with wooden structures although stone and brick tombs of various periods do have arched doorways and vaulted or corbelled roofs.
2 types of roof decorations 1.
3 suspended roof xuanshan roof see the 3rd picture.
They provided good protection against fire stayed waterproof and were good for drainage.
In the latter case dormer windows are built to allow the sun to cast its rays into the well as it has been the belief that water untouched by the sun would cause disease.
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Double eave hip roofs were the classiest roofs in the empire reserved for the top imperial buildings.
By the 3rd century ce hip and gable roofs are common.