Tuesday, September 30, 2008

FLICKR finds: roof...what makes it Thai?

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What makes a roof look "Thai?"

Possibilities:
-Color! (preferably brown)
-the roof's plastic sheet-like-nature--a large expanse coming down to meet the ground
-multi-level, with changes in slope
-eave props
-large overhangs
-decoration

1 comment:

David Gould said...

Some roofs on prestige buildings (temples, palaces etc)were traditionally multi-coloured, using mainly brown, green and orange tiles. Now there is a growing fondness for blue roofs.

And there used to be strict rules about the numbers of roof layers allowed for different buildings,to ensure that multi-layered roofs were reserved for the important buildings as a status symbol.