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Japanese architecture

Discuss.

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go to /v/

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One thing I think I'll never understand is the bracketing system holding up the roof purlins in temple architecture.
The things are mind bending to look at, never mind to decipher their function.

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>>4255464
ゆっくりしていってね！！

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Paper and toothpicks.

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>>4255469
what

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Shiki can destroy buildings.

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I love the polished hardwood floors where its laid in long strips and not in tiles. I love that, absolutely. I also love historical japanese roofs, so much character.

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>>4255476
!!!

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>>4255473
Keeping it will be slow, don't you think?

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>>4255482
I can see their necks.

I am now having a fantasy that their heads are locked in a guillotine.

>>4255478
Like so?

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I like the fact that you can actually seal the interior of a Japanese home from the outside. There are so many Asian home designs that have an open air sort of design that I hate.
Like where the living room has basically three walls only and there is no formal entrance area at all. I like my indoors to actually be inside and not exposed to nature all of the time.

And the Japanese screens allow for an interior that can be opened up easily for easy access or ventilation.

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The veranda (engawa) of a Japanese homestead is probably the most picturesque parts of a home, if you ask me. Long, wide passageways covered by welcoming eaves. A perfect place to drink your coffee/tea/cocoa and watch the weather and the change of the seasons.

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>>4255489
yes, but polished like in OP's

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>>4255501
yeah, that's one thing I like about them too

You can see evidence of if in this picture. You can juuust see a groove cut in the floor here at the edge of the veranda but behind the pillars, that's where sliding doors (more substantial, wooden ones, not paper shoji doors) would be slid in during inclimate weather

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I prefer modern Japanese architecture and not your archaic relics.

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>>4255524
>modern Japanese Architecture
No such thing. "modern" architecture is a worldwide flavor of architecture and has absolutely no recognizable difference from place to place. So it's world architecture, not "Japanese" architecture.
Big rectangles of glass and steel. Sure haven't seen a hundred thousand of those before.

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>>4255535
No, Japanese architects have a certain flair around their work and it's very easy to see.

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>>4255543
Though it might be because I've been studying architecture for a long time now and I've grown accustomed to what comes from where.

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>>4255543
Fair enough, I'll recognize that there are a few features in modern Japanese architecture that differ.
It's not a lot though, you have to admit. All architects of "glass and steel" seem to throw in some gimmick these days, the skybridge on the Petronas Towers is one example. I mean the thing in your picture could just as easily be a Mormon church

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>>4255558
This is true but one big factor setting aside Japanese architects is that many of them do not go out of their way to do international jobs. Therefore a lot of them really keep a "Japanese" style. Whereas world-acclaimed Chinese, Singaporean, (other asian architects) are really looking big to make it internationally.

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yah, i'd have a jap home too OH WAIT JAPAN DON'T HAVE NIGGERS THAT STEAL

the more you know

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>>4255582
What the fuck did you even just say?

Build one if you want one. Although you're probably going to be paying like five times what it costs to build a normal home of that size due to
a.) paying off inspectors due to your house not being built to fire code
b.) Large, LARGE amounts of wood
c.) Import taxes

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Not really a piece of architecture, but the image of a forested old stone stairway up to a mountaintop shrine brings peaceful thoughts, doesn't it?

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when I saw this I thought of unreal tournament 4

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>>4255643
Did you mean UT2004?

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>>4255649
reminds me of ichigo 100%

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>>4255605
i -think-t heyre trying to say that japanese homes are too large and open, and are not secure against theft.

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>>4255652
Possibly

Although I suppose if you were going anywhere you could close the weather shutters and padlock them.

It would probably afford you as much protection as a doorknob on flimsy hinges with a lock is going to anyways.

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thosefuckingbrackets.jpg

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>>4255643
well sorry I mean unreal tournament 3

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>>4255713
Shangri La gives me more China vibes than anything. Don't have any evidence to back that up, though

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>>4255735
well Im chinese and admittedly most chinese are very careless about their heritage which in many parts is in shambles Japanese have way more resources to preserve their culture

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Take it to /v/.

qwtga452s

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I support this thread

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>>4256534
you honor me

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>>4256543
Kinkakuji! These look like some guy's holiday snaps, they yours or did you just find them on the net?

I love the roofs too, especially the tiles and circular seal looking things on the end (not sure what they're called).

I don't know much about Japanese architecture, but it seems like every traditional building or historically important structure you see in Japan has been burnt down at some stage. Kinda sucks that hardly any of them are originals.

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I'm a cultural conservative, social liberal who believes that Japan should endorse homosexuality but only allow traditional style buildings to be built.

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>>4256566
Isn't that chinese?

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>>4256908
I don't know, it might be Chinese style architecture but it is definitely in Japan.

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Classical Japanese architecture is stylin'.

Too bad their modern architecture is the same boxy glass-and-steel crap you see everywhere nowadays, and even that for the first two or three stories, above that their buildings tend to look like something out of Soviet Union. Apparently nobody looks up in Japan.

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>>4255462
>Japanese architecture
Kind of good considering the materials theyhad to build things with, and how poor they were in general.

Western mansions are by far superior

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>>4256566
Not necessarily true. Some of the temple buildings at Horyuji are some of the oldest extant wooden buildings in the world. some of them going back to 607 A.D. (with a routine repair here and there, but the structure as a whole has never burned or torn down)

It's really a consequence of building material, obviously. Japan has (or at least had) a shit ton of wood, so most structures are built out of that. Also: aesthetics and climate demanded that buildings be made out of wood.

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