Reader-built field atlas

Bracket-to-Eave Atlas

A bracket close-up becomes architectural evidence only when the column, beam and eave around it remain recoverable.

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The evidence pair

Two photographs that can be compared

Frame 1

The whole facade or corner with columns and roof visible

Frame 2

One bracket set close enough to inspect while retaining its location

What the note must add

Name the building, bracket position and documented date or restoration note. Mark where the load path disappears, and do not claim hidden joints, nail-free construction or seismic performance from photographs alone.

Submissions remain private until East Moment reviews the rights, specificity and usefulness of the record.

Editorial founding evidence

A visible baseline, with the gaps left open

These are East Moment editorial records built from authorized or rights-cleared imagery. They are not reader submissions and do not count toward the public record total.

Jinci facade and the bracket junction

Partial editorial baseline

An authorized Jinci photograph keeps columns, deep eaves and layered bracket zones in one frame, while a separate Forbidden City detail shows how individual painted members overlap.

Jinci Hall of the Holy Mother with columns, brackets and deep tiled eaves — Whole-building context at Jinci; the exact close bracket detail is still missing.

Painted interlocking brackets beneath a Forbidden City palace roof — Bracket detail from another site; useful for form, not a matched Jinci load path.

Still missing: The photographs show different buildings. They do not form a matched facade-and-detail pair or prove measured load, hidden joints, original fabric or building-wide fastener use.

Approved reader records

The Atlas in public

No reader has completed the full load path yet.

The first approved record will connect one bracket detail to its complete building. A spectacular close-up without location cannot complete the Atlas.

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