Traditional Chinese Roof Styles

Only the royal family and confucius had the privilege to use such style of roof.

Traditional chinese roof styles.

Animal decorations the hall of supreme harmony has 12 roof ridge statuettes left to right. This is strikingly different from most western roofing systems they put a lot of stress on the outer walls. Flat roofs are uncommon while gabled roofs are almost omnipresent in traditional chinese architecture. Many southerners chinese are actually northern.

A clerestory and hip roof for example. There were two kinds of hip roof. 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. Roofs are either built on roof cross beams or rest directly on vertical structural beams.

Read more on traditional chinese roof architecture. Hip hipped roof wudian roof see the 1st picture below. This has to do with the history of china being invaded and destruction being made. The triangle section can be left open for an open gable roof or it can be enclosed for a boxed gable roof.

Eastern asia hip and gable roof xieshan roof. 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. Is one characteristic enterprise which is specialized in antique chinese roof tiles development and production. 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.

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. It has two equal panels pitched at an angle meet at a ridge in the middle of a building. Luoyang dannuo gardens building co ltd. 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.

Often incorporating two or more designs for aesthetics and practical reasons combination roofs can feature a range of styles. Such roof has five ridges and four sides all in the form of gentle slope. In southern china why do the edges of roofs in traditional architecture curve up but in northern china they don t. A curved roof with overhanging eaves which a wooden skeleton supports.

Hipped roof is of the highest level in traditional chinese architecture. A combination roof is quite literally a combination of types of roofs.