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2. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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   Roof shingle. A shingle roof in Zakopane, Poland. With an area of 6000 m2 (1½ acres), it was one of the largest wooden shingle roofs in Europe. Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each ...

3. Shingle style architecture - Wikipedia

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   The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture. In the shingle style, English influence was combined with the renewed interest in Colonial American architecture which followed ...

4. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Karahafu: A type of gable found in some traditional Japanese buildings. Hidden roof: A type of Japanese roof construction. Hip, hipped: A hipped roof is sloped in two pairs of directions (e.g. N–S and E–W) compared to the one pair of direction (e.g. N–S or E–W) for a gable roof.

5. Mansard roof - Wikipedia

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   A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel -style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows. [1][2][3] The steep roofline and windows allow for additional floors of habitable space [4] (a ...

6. The cheapest ways to build a house, and the most affordable ...

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   HomeAdvisor puts the average cost to build a new home at $150 per square foot. ... drywall or roof shingles — to be cut to fit, with the excess getting thrown away. ... The architectural style ...

7. Roof - Wikipedia

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   Roof. A roof (pl.: roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of temperature, and wind. [1] A roof is part of the building envelope.