Glossary · H
Hip
Also called hips, hipped roof, hip roof
The sloping external angle where two roof planes meet over a corner of the building; a roof with slopes on all sides is a hipped roof.
Rules that use the word
The roof declares the rank. Give the hipped roof (wudian) to the highest halls, the hip-and-gable (xieshan) to the next, and the gabled roofs, overhanging (xuanshan) and flush (yingshan), to lesser buildings and houses; double the eaves for the very highest.
The hip-and-gable: nine ridges. Combine a hipped lower roof with a gabled upper roof, the triangular gable set back from the end of the building; count one main ridge, four gable ridges and four hip ridges: nine in all.
Name a roof by its slopes. Classify a roof by how its planes meet: one slope (shed), two meeting at a ridge (gable), four meeting at hips (hip, pyramid), a hip below a gable (hip-and-gable), two pitches each side (gambrel, mansard), or a curved surface (barrel, cone, dome).
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The Roof, China, Japan and Korea.
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