The Textbook of Architecture

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A Khmer stilt house

A wooden house raised on posts under a steep roof: thatch for commoners, tile only for the great.

A Khmer stilt house Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Khmer

The rules it illustrates

Tile for the great, thatch for the rest. Roof the palace with lead and glazed tile; let officials tile only their family temple and their principal hall, sizing their houses by rank; and let common people roof with thatch.