Traditional Chinese Roof Structure

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Traditional chinese roof structure.

Ancient chinese architecture was designed to be attractive especially the distinctive roofs. The number 9 has a special meaning for chinese people as it represents longevity and eternity. Or any roof structure housing stairways elevators or ventilation fans may also exceed the building height limit by up to five feet but are not required to provide a setback from the perimeter of the roof. Eastern asia hip and gable roof xieshan roof.

Flat roofs are uncommon while gabled roofs are almost omnipresent in traditional chinese architecture. This beautiful tile is available in grayish smoked and various glazed colors and will keep its distinctive appearance while withstanding constant exposure to any weather condition. Mca s oriental japanese clay roof tile is a unique interlocking high quality tile made in the japanese tradition. Hip hipped roof wudian roof see the 1st picture below.

The roofs were built to represent the number 9. A curved roof with overhanging eaves which a wooden skeleton supports. Only the royal family and confucius had the privilege to use such style of roof. Is one characteristic enterprise which is specialized in antique chinese roof tiles development and production.

Roofs are either built on roof cross beams or rest directly on vertical structural beams. Where height is limited to seventy. There were various roof styles with functional features a hierarchy of designs and exquisite details. 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.

English afrikaans albanian arabic basque bosnian catalan chinese simplified chinese traditional. Single eave and double eave gable hip roofs. 3 features of chinese roof architecture 1. This is strikingly different from most western roofing systems they put a lot of stress on the outer walls.

Such roof has five ridges and four sides all in the form of gentle slope. There are so many other names for the product we call palapas tiki huts we thought you might like to know what some of the other names are and some terms from around the world. Luoyang dannuo gardens building co ltd. Traditional chinese roofs had different forms at different stages of history.

Each roof has 9 horizontal beams and 72 ridge beams supported by 18 columns making a doubly auspicious sum of 99. Hipped roof is of the highest level in traditional chinese architecture.