![]() ![]() ![]() This type of roof allows the structure with three facades, normally used on a small garden pavilion built on a tiny plot of land with an awkward irregular shape. This is the most common roof style for garden pavilions Triangle Hip Roof Traditional Chinese Roofs on Garden Structures Round Roof This set of roofs is on Beijing Forbidden City’s Meridian Gate for the Receiving Hall, corner watchtowers and verandas. Combination of Double-Eave Hip Roof and Double-Eave Pyramid Hip Roofs Linked by Gable Roofs This set of L-shaped roofs are on the corner watchtowers of Beijing Forbidden City. Combination of Multi-Leveled Cross Gable & Hip Roofs and Round Ridge Roofs This complicated roof set was for the ancient Yellow Crane Terrace Building as illustrated in a Song Dynasty painting. Multi-Leveled Single-Eave, Double-Eave and Intersecting Gable & Hip Roofs with Upswings at the Ends This complicated roof set was for the ancient Tengwang Terrace Building as illustrated in a Song Dynasty painting. Multi-Leveled Single-Eave, Double-Eave and Overlaid Gable & Hip Roofs This is a set of roofs on a terrace building illustrated in a Song Dynasty painting. Single and Double-Eave Gable & Hip Roofs with Upswings at the Ends This combination of flat and hip roofs does not appear often. Double Eave Hip Roofĭouble-eave hip roofs were, in the old days, exclusively reserved for major buildings in royal palaces, such as the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing Forbidden City. In the classic Chinese building code, hip roofs were reserved for public buildings of significance, such as meeting halls in royal palaces or the chief prayer hall in big temples. This is a building with overlaid gable and hip roofs in a Daoist temple in Zhengding County, Hebei Province. Gable and hip roofs were traditionally used on the less important palace, government and religious buildings. Traditional Chinese Roofs on Public Buildings Gable and Hip Roof Roofs for stilt houses are usually seen in mountain areas in China’s subtropical southwest. Multi-eave gable and hip roofs are commonly seen on residential buildings in hot and humid southern China. This type of roof is quite common on residential buildings in southern China. Multi-gable roofs are commonly used on multi-storey residential buildings in Zhejiang Province in China’s humid southeast coastal region where it rains frequently. This type of roof is often seen on residential buildings in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in northern China where the climate condition is quite windy and cold with heavy snowfall in winter. Residential buildings with this type of roof are commonly seen in windy Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in southern China. The firewalls at both ends could be of various heights and shapes. The flush gable roof is the most common residential roof style used in the north of Yangtze River where the climate is relatively cold and dry. The wide eaves are designed to keep the upper parts of the timber structure from the rain. ![]() The overhanging gable roof is the most common residential roof type in the south of the Yangtze River where the climate is humid and warm. Classic Chinese Residential Roofs Overhanging Gable Roof Traditional Chinese architecture is not only as old as Chinese civilization with 5,000 years of history but unique in the world, particularly when the roof system is concerned, both in terms of its multi-layered dougong structure – a set of interlocking wooden brackets that supports the massive roofs – and its visual style in shape, size and colour.īelow is a brief introduction to some commonly used classic Chinese roofs in residential dwellings, public buildings and garden structures. ![]()
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