Hipped Chinese 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.

Hipped chinese roof.

Such roof has five ridges and four sides all in the form of gentle slope. There were two kinds of hip roof. 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.

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

The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof.