What are the characteristics of the riding-style building

1, the riding building is a town along the street building, on the downstairs corridor. Riding downstairs corridor, that is, sidewalks, called "five _ base". This name and Southeast Asia (Indonesia and other places) has a relationship of origin. Riding downstairs corridor, shade and rain, both living room (or store) corridor, but also indoor and outdoor transition space. The texture of the Nanyang-style riding blocks is mainly composed of commercial and residential row houses on the street, with stores in front and houses in the back, and streets in front and alleys in the back. The width of the street in front of the store is 8-12m, and the width of the lane behind the house is only 2-3m. The width of the store house is about 3m, and the width of the store house can be up to 5-6m, and the depth of the store house is mostly longitudinal to the whole plot, which is known as the "Maozhukong" or "Bamboo tube house" in the dialect area of Southern China's Fujian and Guangdong Province. In Min and Guangdong dialect areas of South China, they are called "Maozhuzhuang" or "Bamboo tube house", and there are multiple patios or corridors in between, which are actually derived from the multiple houses of Min and Qiongbei folk houses.

2, 2-3 floors of the building to the main body, in order to adapt to the environmental and climatic conditions of the subtropical and tropical regions, sheltered from the sun and wind and rain, in the first floor of the building to set through the pedestrian walkway - "Riding Corridor", equivalent to the European "arcade", the "arcade", the "arcade", the "arcade", the "arcade", the "arcade". Europe's "arcade", you can walk through it all day long. In the Min dialect circle, Southeast Asian Chinese called "five feet base" Taiwan called "Tingzai foot", the width of more than 1.8-2.5m or so.

3, the structural form of the building has a variety of brick, brick and wood, local truss. Load-bearing walls are mostly large-size thick brick walls with stone masonry at the base of the walls, and the inner partition walls are thinner brick walls or panel walls; the floors are mostly cement surfaces, with floor tiles or wooden floors in between; the roofs are made of a combination of traditional tiled sloped roofs and modern flat roofs.

4, the shape of the riding building generally do not use authentic European columnar architecture or arcade, but favors the South Seas style of the vernacular variant, from the whole to the details, basically there is no authentic Western "chapter and verse" to follow. The fa?ade of the second floor and above are mostly decorated with continuous coupons for windows and concave balconies, and a small number of convex balconies can also be seen. Window lintel coupon type has a triangle, half-circle, four heart circle, there are also European and Islamic double heart circle pointed coupon. Wall brick carvings and successive gray molding decorations, most of the Chinese and Western mix of curly grass, Wen Jin, back to the shape, such as Ruyi and its geometric patterns, some of which also has the influence of the 1920s and 1930s, the prevalence of Western decorative arts style.

5, the daughter of the roof of the building wall is one of the most striking features of the South China Sea wind, can be broadly divided into two kinds: one for the level of the parapet, the street side of the vase often made to hang green glaze balustrade; the other for the deformation of the Baroque wall, the shape of the very rich, a building a mold, the upper part of the wall open circular, oblong and other shapes of the wind tunnel, the wind in the summer in the Haikou wind speeds can reach a maximum of 40m/s or more in the climate conditions , can greatly reduce the wind pressure on the baroque mountain wall caused by the damage.

Cavalcade is what

Cavalcade, in Cantonese can also be extended to the balcony, the Teochew people called five feet of masonry, Southern Fujian called Tingzai foot, is a strong South China characteristics of Chinese architectural design. Part of the street on the first floor of the building is built as a pedestrian corridor, and above the corridor is the second floor of the floor, as if the second floor is riding on the first floor, so it is called the Riding Floor. Nowadays, the first floor of the building is usually used for business, the second floor above the residence. Riding floor can be protected from rain and sun, but also to facilitate the display window, soliciting business.