Thread 17869785

Which one is your favorite /his/? (:

>>17869785 (OP)
I definitely prefer the gentle, swooping shape of the Chinese and Japanese. In my opinion the more subtle use of colour is more appealing in the Japanese example. Feels like they went more for beauty than granduer. Given their 1000 year autism for zen aesthetics it checks out.

>>17869785 (OP)
Countries in East Asia have very heavy rainy seasons, hence the massive roofs to keep water away
Eventually they wanted to make their existing buildings taller, so instead of removing the existing roof, they simply built on top of it and added a second roof
Hence, the pagoda.

>>17869785 (OP)
Definitely the Korean one.

>>17869795
Wow, for some reason I read the OP as "What caused this" I need to get off this website
Anyways, I'm going with either Japan or Korea

>>17869785 (OP)
I feel like Oriental architecture is too much roof?
Prolly the Korean one since that one seems to balance the roof with the building

>>17869785 (OP)
>Which one is your favorite /his/? (:

Probably the Korean one.
The black and white make it look sharp, the roof is smaller and more curved giving it a more pleasant silhouette & appearance, and the steps leading up to it look like they're a little taller or otherwise rise higher and we love a good tall pyramid on /his/.

>>17869842
>I feel like Oriental architecture is too much roof?

I feel this way about Southeast Asian architecture, the ones influenced by Hinduism at least.
Too pointy, too bright, too much yellow, too many river serpents/dragons everywhere, it's just a bunch of excessive visual noise. I think 'some' of China's architecture just brushes up against that, too much yellow/gold, but none of them at the level of places like Thailand, Vietnam, etc..

for me its the Bogd Khaan

>>17869874
Indian architecture doesnt register as a building to me
like oriental architecture might not be my favorite but at least it looks like a house or temple ect.

>>17869888
>Indian architecture doesnt register as a building to me

Strongly agree.
At that point it has such a disruptive appearance I circle back and start appreciating the simple aesthetic of the thatched huts and longhouses of primitive peoples.

>>17869888
actually this is a bad pic its not that gaudy compared to this, colors arent too grating
>>17869899
yep

Why do they all have that shape of roof? Earthquakes?

Who did it better?

>>17869904
I've wondered that too. Directing runoff onto the main causeway?

>>17869785 (OP)
Japan but they’re all beautiful. East Asia has great architecture, at least from an aesthetic standpoint

>>17869789
This, the Chinese one is aesthetically pleasing and at the same time imposing. It looks like the court of an emperor who just massacred a million peasants. The Korean one is too much like a temple. And the Vietnamese one has no sovl but it also looks like a lot of senseless violence is planned there. As always total Chinese victory

>>17869904
>>17870324
In the Japanese case the overhanging roof is necessary to protect the fairly fragile sliding shoji that separates the interior tatami floored part of the house from the exterior wooden porch/engawa (That also played a role in diverting water away from the interior) During severe weather they could also be protected by wooden storm shutters that functioned as impromptu walls, which the Japanese often preferred not to use because their buildings were supported by posts/beams instead of load-bearing walls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engawa
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amado_(architecture)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoji

>>17870998
Tenryu-ji

>>17871000
Storm shutters, they were also used at night to protect against thieves

>>17869991
I think I prefer left but right is a shitty pic, choose a better angle

>>17869785 (OP)
I really enjoy the teal Koreans use in their traditional buildings, the orange used in Chinese and Vietnamese buildings is a bit hard on the eyes imo

>>17869785 (OP)
The Chinese one wins, the Japanese and Korean ones look like caricatures of the Chinese, and the Vietnamese one is too robust and simple.

>>17869785 (OP)
The Korean one is Geunjeongjeon Hall in Gyeongbokgung Palace

>>17871330
Interior

>>17869785 (OP)
If you want large, ornate, grandeur you pick Chinese, if you want simplicity, elegance, Zen, you pick Japanese. Korean and Vietnamese are half assed copy of Chinese, except Korean is more northernly while Viet is more southern Chinese

>>17869785 (OP)
R.I.P. Lūchū

>>17869902
Those statues are revolting, reminds me of those reproductions of the original colors on Roman statues but much uglier