What i have in mind is something along these lines which i saw on a recent trip to china.
Chinese pagoda floor plan.
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I want to build a chinese or japanese style pagoda for my garden.
The pagoda was erected during the tang dynasty between the years 742 and 756 ad.
The pagoda s floor plan is an equilateral octagon in which all of the eight side walls are curved inwards.
It is constructed with wood without any nails.
It s a 9 storey pagoda 67 3 meters tall and 30 3 meters in diameter at the bottom with an octagonal floor plan.
523 in the northern wei dynasty it is also one of the oldest existing pagodas in the country.
Gwi 309307 while i have the skills to build something like this i have not been able to find any plans or details that show how the joinery and roof details go together.
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The twelve sided 41 metre tall pagoda is built entirely of blue bricks.
Most pagodas were built to have a religious function most often buddhist but sometimes taoist and were often located in or near viharas the pagoda traces its origins to the stupa of ancient india.
The close eaved pagoda this is an earliest style of chinese pagodas typified by the pagoda of chongyuesi temple in dengfeng county henan province.
One type was the pavilion pagoda which was typically made of stone or sometimes wood.
The chinese pagoda also came in several other forms although they were less known.
A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves common to china japan korea vietnam and other parts of asia.