The most significant characteristic of ancient Chinese architecture: the use of timber/wooden framework
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The roofs
• An important part of Chinese architecture.
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•Palace
The Chinese word for "palace" is Gong. The Forbidden City of Beijing, which still stands intact and which served as the imperial palace for both Ming and Qing emperors (1368-1911) covers an area of 720,000 square meters and embraces many halls, towers, pavilions and studies measured as 9,900 bays. It is one of the greatest palaces of the world. In short, palaces grew into a veritable city and are often called Gongcheng (palace city).
— the wooden framework bears all the weight of the building, which makes the installation of both the outer and inner walls flexible and able to be placed in accordance with practical needs
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Advantages:
— materials for constructing such structures were easily available and construction methods were relatively simple
— the wooden frame structures are shock-resistant, because the parts are linked by tenon-and-mortise (榫卯) joints so that they are safer in earthquakes
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• The ridges of each roof carries figurines and/or mythical creatures.
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Architectural Features of palaces:
--The ancient palaces were strictly laid out on central axis. -- Yellow roof tiles were used. --The wooden columns of the buildings, as well as the surface of the walls, tend to be red in color. --The Chinese dragon was heavily used on Imperial
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•Pavilion
A common sight in the country, the Chinese pavilion (ting, which means also a kiosk) is built normally either of wood or stone or bamboo with any of several shapes - square, triangle, hexagon, octagon, a five-petal flower, a fan and more. But all pavilions have columns for support without walls. In parks or some scenic places, pavilions are built on slopes to command the panorama or are built by the lakeside to create intriguing images by water.
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Types of Chinese Architectures
• Palace (Gong)
• Pavilion (Ting)
• Storeyed Pavilion (Ge)
• Terrace (Tai)
• Storeyed Building (Lou)
• Pagoda (Ta)
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Disadvantages:
— Their durability is not as good as structures of brick or stone.
— wood grows very slowly and cannot be cut on a large scale recklessly.
• Not only protect residences from the elements, they also had a deeper meaning.
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• The curve of each roof can be no more than a sweep and the most intricate designs on the roof are almost always pointing south-east.
• However, there are some down sides to having all of these decorations of the roof.
• The tremendous weight could eventually bring down the entire complex.
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• Temple roofs were curved.
• The temple's roof is also made of glazed ceramic tiles and has an overhanging cave distinguished by a graceful upward slope.