Traditional Chinese Roof Styles
Earlier we spoke about the basic shapes.
Traditional chinese roof styles. Throughout the 20th century chinese architects have attempted to combine traditional chinese designs into modern architecture usually government with great success. A pent roof is a smaller roof attached to a wall. This is a traditional roof form. Animal decorations the hall of supreme harmony has 12 roof ridge statuettes left to right.
A twisted church tower roof. And the tiled roof itself. Often incorporating two or more designs for aesthetics and practical reasons combination roofs can feature a range of styles. The best roof shape for a high wind area would be a hip roof but it s more expensive to construct than a traditional gable roof a common roof for sheds.
In terms of roof covering standing seam metal roof would be the best option in terms of strength and durability but you could also go with architectural shingles light color roof. A jerkinhead roof may also be called a jerkin head roof a half hipped roof a clipped gable or even a jerkinhead gable. A clerestory and hip roof for example. Moreover the pressure for urban development throughout contemporary china required higher speed of construction and higher floor area ratio which means that in the great cities the demand for traditional chinese buildings.
A swedish sateri roof säteritak in swedish is hipped and pent hipped with two layers of eaves rounded pyramidal roof on a charchala style temple in india. But really combination of roofing styles is where character peaks. A combination roof is quite literally a combination of types of roofs. Read more on traditional chinese roof architecture.
The style is thought to be chinese in origin and has spread across much of asia. It also influenced the style of the bahay na bato of the philippines. The walls between the posts or columns are not load bearing and the intercolumnar bays odd numbered along the. The top 20 roofing styles.
The basic elements in a chinese timber building are the platform of pounded earth faced with stone or tile on which the building stands. The original style and similar styles are found in the traditional architectures of india japan korea vietnam mongolia tibet nepal sri lanka and kalmykia. The roof supporting brackets and truss. 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.
The post and lintel frame vertical posts topped by horizontal tie beams. 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. That s the simple aspect of style. General features of japanese traditional architecture.
Jerkinhead roofs are sometimes found on american bungalows and cottages small american houses from the 1920s and 1930s and assorted victorian house styles.