Herringbone and Quatrefoil: Patterns Filling the Grids

A decorative wooden structure on a gable. Herringbone diagonal wood, quatrefoil curved wood, or star-shaped arrangements are filled into the grids, repeating two to three units in total. This typically appears on the most prominent front gable and beneath the cantilevered floor. The rest of the structure maintains plain square grids. Avoid: covering the entire building with decorative patterns, having different patterns in every grid, placing patterns on inconspicuous rear facades, using carving instead of wooden arrangements.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

山牆上的一段裝飾性木構。格子裡填入人字形的斜木、四葉形的曲木或星形的排列,整段重複兩到三個單元,通常出現在最顯眼的正面山牆與出挑層下方。其餘部分維持素淨的方格。避免:把裝飾圖案鋪滿整棟建築、讓每一格的圖案都不同、圖案放在不顯眼的背立面、用雕刻取代木構的排列。