What are the characteristics of residential architecture in Taiwan?

Taiwan's residential architecture is characterized by the minnan traditional residential style as the main feature. Taiwanese dwellings have a great feature: the riding floor. Because it rains a lot in Taiwan, among other factors, early buildings were built with the first-floor facade retracted inward, leaving a walkway empty for people to walk on.

But because there are a lot of motorcycles in Taiwan, half of the buildings became parking lots for motorcycles again. These early buildings were generally square and featureless, about four or five stories with a top floor addition and no elevator. The newer buildings are similar in type to mainland neighborhoods, but with fewer public **** facilities.

Taiwan's residential architecture

Taiwan has a large number of Taoist and Buddhist believers, and the custom is that every village is managed by a land god, so land temples are very common, but in the north, where the gap between the urban and rural areas is no longer obvious, they are mostly hidden in small corners of the community.

There are also so-called palace temples, and many people who "claim" to have a sense of God's spirit and say that they have been ordered by God to open a palace will also open a palace temple in the community, and they will usually have a fixed time to "do business", which means that they will help believers to solve their problems by mediumship, collect their frights, cut their peach blossoms, and even ask for a sign to bet on the cards. The company's business is to provide a wide range of services to the public, and even to ask for signatures and bets on cards and the like.

The houses built in the early days in the area around Taozhumiao were two- or three-storey houses, and most of them used to have wooden horizontal sliding doors, and the area was a Hakka settlement, so farmland and houses existed side by side, and the downtown area was similar to the northern part of the city.

Earlier ancient streets will retain the colonial-era construction of Western-style buildings, the exterior are decorated with some rather special stone carvings, this in some of Taiwan's early and more developed areas have.

There are also some Minnan-style courtyard buildings, and a few early Hakka buildings, which are relatively rare because most of them have been demolished to make way for buildings.