The East Asian hip-and-gable roof also known as 'resting hill roof', consists of a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides and integrates a gable on two opposing sides. It is usually constructed w
The Longxing Temple—built in 1052 and located at present-day Zhengding, Hebei Province, China—has a hip-and-gable xieshan-style roof with double eaves.
Xieshan roof with single eaves on Hualin Temple in Fujian, China
Xieshan roof with multiple eaves on the Mahavira Hall of Xiantong Temple on Mount Wutai, Wutai County, Shanxi, China
Xieshan roof with single eaves on the Hall of the Three Pure Ones in Xuanmiao Temple in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downward to the walls — thus, a hipped roof has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. Variants of hipped roofs inc
East Asian hip-and-gable roof
…hip-and-gable roof (Xiēshān (歇山) in Chinese, Paljakjibung (팔작지붕) in Korean and Irimoya (入母屋) in Japanese) also known as 'resting hill roof', consists of a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides and integrates a gable on two opposing sides. It is usually constructed with two large sloping roof sections in the…
A raised bungalow in Chicago with a hipped roof
A hip-roof type house in Khammam city, India
A hip roof construction in Northern Australia showing multinail truss construction. The blue pieces are roll-formed metal roof battens or purlins