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2. Gable roof - Wikipedia

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   Gable roof. A gable roof[1] is a roof consisting of two sections whose upper horizontal edges meet to form its ridge. The most common roof shape in cold or temperate climates, it is constructed of rafters, roof trusses or purlins. The pitch of a gable roof can vary greatly.

3. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   See also roof pitch, crow-stepped, corbie stepped, stepped gable: A gable roof with its end parapet walls below extended slightly upwards and shaped to resemble steps. A-frame Half-hipped (clipped gable, jerkinhead [ 7 ] ): A combination of a gable and a hip roof (pitched roof without changes to the walls) with the hipped part at the top and ...

4. Gable - Wikipedia

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   Gable style is also used in the design of fabric structures, with varying degree sloped roofs, dependent on how much snowfall is expected. Sharp gable roofs are a characteristic of the Gothic and classical Greek styles of architecture. [1] The opposite or inverted form of a gable roof is a V-roof or butterfly roof.

5. Roof pitch - Wikipedia

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   Roof pitch. Roof pitch is the steepness of a roof expressed as a ratio of inch (es) rise per horizontal foot (or their metric equivalent), or as the angle in degrees its surface deviates from the horizontal. A flat roof has a pitch of zero in either instance; all other roofs are pitched. A roof that rises 3 inches per foot, for example, would ...

6. Dutch gable roof - Wikipedia

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   A Dutch gable roof or gablet roof (in Britain) is a roof with a small gable at the top of a hip roof. The term Dutch gable is also used to mean a gable with parapets. Some sources refer to this as a gable-on-hip roof. [1] Dutch gable roof works of Padmanabhapuram Palace in India.

7. East Asian hip-and-gable roof - Wikipedia

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   The Longxing Temple — built in 1052 and located at present-day Zhengding, Hebei Province, China — has a hip-and-gable xieshan-style roof with double eaves. [1]The East Asian hip-and-gable roof (Xiēshān (歇山) in Chinese, Paljakjibung (팔작지붕) in Korean and Irimoya (入母屋) in Japanese) also known as 'resting hill roof', consists of a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides ...

8. Traditional Chinese roofing - Wikipedia

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   Depending on the type of gable employed, there are two styles of two slope roofs: gable roofs (Chinese: 硬山顶; pinyin: yìngshān dǐng, also known as baoguiqi) [2] and xuanshan roofs (Chinese: 悬山顶; pinyin: xuánshān dǐng, also known as overhanging gable roofs [1]). Among four slope roofs, there are two styles: the five-ridged hip ...

9. Gambrel - Wikipedia

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   Gambrel. A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom inside the building's upper level and shortening what would otherwise be a tall ...