Traditional Chinese Roofs - All Things Chinese
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. The wide eaves are designed to keep the upper parts of the timber structure from the rain. 展开
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. 展开
The firewalls at both ends could be of various heights and shapes. Residential buildings with this type of roof are commonly seen in windy … 展开
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. 展开
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. 展开
Chinese Architecture: Roofs and Bracketing
The classic upturned curve of the Chinese roof is due to several considerations. It increases the amount of light for the same rain protection; it helps to hold the shingles together; and it …
Chinese Dou Gong Brackets - TABLE OF CONTENTS
· From 200 B.C. to 600 A.D., Chinese builder-architects adapted brackets to function perpendicular to the wall-plane as cantilever beams. They sometimes added a cross-yoke onto a perpendicular arm. Now a bracket set …高达
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返现The Dougong: A nailless Chinese construction method
2018年6月11日 · What is the secret behind the flexible but strong structure? Bracket sets are created by placing a wooden block (“dou”) onto a column to form a solid base. Another …
Dougong - Wikipedia
Dougong (Chinese: 斗拱; pinyin: dǒugǒng; lit. 'cap [and] block') is a structural element of interlocking wooden brackets, important in traditional Chinese architecture for both its structural capacities and cultural implications.
The use of dougong first appeared in buildings of the late centuries BCE, with its earliest renditions emerging during the Western Zhou Dynasty, evolving over th…Wikipedia · CC-BY-SA 许可下的文字- 预计阅读时间：4 分钟
Traditional Chinese Roofs - China’s Roof …
Ancient Chinese roofs had wide eaves, which could shield the walls below from all but the fiercest wind-driven rain. This characteristic kept the internal pillars and brackets, which …
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Focus on Architecture: Chinese dougong …
There are two types of bracket sets, the 偷心 Tōu xīn (lit.’stolen heart’) and the 计心 jìxīn (lit.’the added heart’). The presence or the absence of the ‘heart’ refers to whether a lateral bracket – …
The Dou Gong Bracket System - Sites at Penn State
2015年7月21日 · Dou Gong or “cap and block” is known to be a remarkable structural element of joining wooden brackets. It is one of the greatest elements in Chinese traditional architecture. The pieces are fixed together by only the …
Traditional Chinese Roof Architecture
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 …
Bracket sets - en.pgm.org.cn
Bracket sets (dougong) are a distinctive component in Chinese wood-frame architecture and serve as a transition between the roof and the walls of a structure. They transmit the load of …
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