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  2. Traditional Khmer housing - Wikipedia

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    Bas reliefs from Bayon temple depicted houses, building, and palaces which shared similar roof design and concept with today Khmer traditional houses and palaces. [5] A double-tiered roof of Khmer wooden architecture as depicted at Bayon temple. This roofing concept is commonly seen at today roof design of Khmer pagodas.

  3. Khmer architecture - Wikipedia

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    A double-tiered roof of Khmer wooden architecture as depicted at Bayon temple. Typical double-tiered roof used in contemporary Khmer architecture The nuclear family, in rural Cambodia, typically lives in a rectangular house that may vary in size from four by six meters to six by ten meters.

  4. Rural Khmer house - Wikipedia

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    A hip roof is another variation of the typical roof of a Khmer house; this construction requires a large amount of material and is complicated, so that it is rarely seen. The shape of the roof defines the different house types. The Khmer house is an example of indigenous materials used with a traditional design called vernacular architecture.

  5. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes. Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings.

  6. New Khmer Architecture - Wikipedia

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    The height of the building offers protection in times of floods. New Khmer Architecture often uses these features. Other adaptations are the use of wall panels, double walls and roofs (especially the typical VVV- shaped roofs that can be found on many buildings of the style) to prevent direct sunlight.

  7. Vann Molyvann - Wikipedia

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    Vann Molyvann [1] (Khmer: វណ្ណ ម៉ូលីវណ្ណ; 23 November 1926 – 28 September 2017) was a Cambodian architect and urban planner.Molyvann is best known as pioneering the style known as New Khmer Architecture, which combined modernism and Khmer tradition, and accounted for the country's unique environment and irrigation needs.

  8. Chofa - Wikipedia

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    Roof finial or chofah (colorized) as depicted on the bas relief of Angkor Wat temple in 12th century.. The representation of cho fah is unclear and believed to represent garuda [citation needed], however, the present research indicates that the original chofah upon which most subsequent chofah have been based is the gajashimha of Suryavarman II, [2] the Khmer king who built Angkor Wat.

  9. Architecture of Thailand - Wikipedia

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    The Khmer Empire occupied the Lavo Kingdom during this time period. The architecture of this era adopted the style of the Khmer and can be seen in the Shrines of Ganesh. This style preferred to use brick, sandstone, and laterite. Originally brick and sandstone were used to build houses or castles and laterite for bases.