Rooftop Additions: That Layer on the Skyline

A row of tin-roofed additions on rooftops. Their height, color, and materials vary: some are blue corrugated sheets, some are rusty red, some are tiled; some are full stories, while others are just shelters for rain and walls for water tanks. The edges of the additions are uneven, with miscellaneous items, clothes drying racks, and water tanks piled on top. Looking up from the street, this layer is the most cluttered part of the entire street. Avoid: unifying the form and color of the additions, depicting the additions as neat extensions, omitting water tanks and clothes drying racks, depicting the rooftops as clean platforms.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一整排屋頂上的鐵皮加蓋。它們的高度、顏色與材料都不一樣:有的是藍色浪板、有的是鏽紅、有的貼了磁磚;有些是完整的一層樓,有些只是遮雨的棚架與水塔的圍牆。加蓋的邊緣參差不齊,上面堆著雜物、曬衣架與水塔。從街道抬頭看,這一層是整條街最雜亂的部分。避免:讓加蓋的形式與顏色統一、把加蓋畫成整齊的增建、省略水塔與曬衣架、把屋頂畫成乾淨的平台。