Which place is the characteristic architecture of the riding building

Cavalcade is a characteristic building of Hainan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other coastal overseas Chinese areas.

Cavalcade is a modern commercial and residential buildings, the ground floor of the building is set back along the street and leave a public **** pedestrian space of the building. Riding buildings are commonly found in South Asia, Southeast Asian countries, as well as China's Hainan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other coastal areas of overseas Chinese.

The first modern sense of the riding building originated in India Beniapukur place, is the British first built, called the corridor, the local dialect called eranda. then, Singapore's founder of the port of Raffles in the design of the city of Singapore also use this corridor structure of the building, called the store of the public **** corridors, or called the five feet of gas, five feet base.

Later introduced into southern China began to be known as the riding tower. 1849, Haikou city of four pailou street built the first riding tower, built by the return of merchants from Southeast Asia Qiong. 1875, the riding tower appeared in Xiamen after part of the street, built by local overseas merchants.

The architectural characteristics of the building

The building body of the building to 2 to 3 floors of the main, in order to adapt to the environmental and climatic conditions of the sub-tropical and tropical regions, sheltered from the sun and wind and rain, in the first floor of the building to be through the sidewalks, corridors, the equivalent of the European arcade, can be all-weather walking through the middle of it. In the Min dialect circle, the Southeast Asian Chinese called five feet base, Taiwan called Tingzai feet, the width of more than 1.8 to 2.5m or so.

The structural form of the building has a variety of brick, brick and wood, local trusses. The load-bearing wall is mostly a large-size thick brick wall, the wall base is stone masonry, and the inner partition wall is a thinner brick wall or panel wall. The floors are mostly cement surfaces with floor tiles or wooden floors; the roofs are a combination of traditional tiled pitched roofs and modern flat roofs.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Cavalcade