Hipped Chinese Roof

There were two kinds of hip roof.

Hipped chinese roof.

Also known as a pyramid roof also known as a pyramid roof mansard roof a type of hip roof where each side includes two different sloping angles with the lower angle much steeper than the upper angle. 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. Such roof has five ridges and four sides all in the form of gentle slope. Double eave hip roof double eave hip roofs were in old days exclusively reserved for major buildings in royal palaces such as hall of supreme harmony in beijing forbidden city.

This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period. A hip roof or a hipped roof is a style of roofing that slopes downwards from all sides to the walls and hence has no vertical sides. The east asian hip and gable roof xiēshān 歇山 in chinese irimoya 入母屋 in japanese paljakjibung 팔작지붕 in korean consists of a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides and integrates a gable on two opposing sides. Pavilion roof a hip roof on a square structure where all sides join to form a single peak.

Hipped roof is of the highest level in traditional chinese architecture.