Hipped Chinese Roof

Pavilion roof a hip roof on a square structure where all sides join to form a single peak.

Hipped chinese roof.

There were two kinds of hip roof. 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. 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 hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof.

In 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. Such roof has five ridges and four sides all in the form of gentle slope. 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. Only the royal family and confucius had the privilege to use such style of roof.

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.