le sigh

[kaigou]

I really wish I could find architecture books that'd show me the interior construction of a roofline like this one.

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[l-clausewitz.livejournal.com]

The Architecture volume (the 6th or 7th?) in the Indonesian Heritage encyclopedia series has some cutaway views of the construction in the insular versions of this kind of roof. Some of them--like the Rumah Gadang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumah_Gadang) of Minangkabau and the Toraja tongkonan (http://www.toraja.net/culture/arcitecture/index.html)--can be every bit as spectacular as the mainland/peninsular examples.