Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [additive and joining processes and techniques]
6. assembling (additive and joining process)
7. construction (assembling)
8. [construction technique by form or materials]

Anotations

Scope note:

Tailiang is one of the two main systems of traditional Chinese timber-frame structures. The term was coined by architecture historians in the 1940s in contrast to chuandou 穿鬥. “Tailiang” can also be called liangzhushi 梁柱式, jialiangshi 架梁式, dieliangshi 叠梁式, zhuliangshi 柱梁式 and is a system in which beams are as structurally important as pillars and posts in supporting purlins. Literally, “tailiang” means fitting beams on top of the pillars, and fitting posts on top of the beams. Consequently, in this system there are fewer pillars with the building interior. To further distinguish it from chuandou, tailiang is interpreted as a framing system in which beams are supported on top of the pillars, and purlins are extended across the beams. It is usually considered to be the standard timber-frame structure of traditional official buildings in northern China.