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  2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Barrel, barrel-arched (cradle, wagon): A round roof like a barrel (tunnel) vault. Catenary: An arched roof in the form of a catenary curve. Arched roof, bow roof, [11] Gothic, Gothic arch, and ship's bottom roof. Historically also called a compass roof. [12] [13] Circular Bell roof (bell-shaped, ogee, Philibert de l'Orme roof): A bell-shaped roof.

  3. Gothic-arch barn - Wikipedia

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    George Obendorf Gothic Arch Truss Barn, built from Sears Roebuck parts, in Idaho. A Gothic-arched roof barn or Gothic-arch barn or Gothic barn or rainbow arch [1] is a barn whose profile is in the ogival shape of a Gothic arch. These became economically feasible when arch members could be formed by a lamination process.

  4. Rafter - Wikipedia

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    Barge rafter: The outermost rafter on a gable end, sometimes forming a roof overhang. Butt rafter: A smaller rafter interrupted by and joined to a butt purlin. Common rafters pass over and are supported by a principal purlin, if present. A "binding rafter" is not a rafter but an obsolete name for a purlin or support. Part of a cruck frame may ...

  5. List of ancient Greek and Roman roofs - Wikipedia

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    The truss roof of the 4th-century church Old St. Peter's Basilica, Rome. The triangular frame of beams of the main nave is largely self-supporting, as the forces are carried along the beams rather than acting vertically on them. The list of ancient roofs comprises roof constructions from Greek and Roman architecture, ordered by clear span.

  6. Hammerbeam roof - Wikipedia

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    A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.

  7. Soffit - Wikipedia

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    Its archetypal form, sometimes incorporating or implying the projection of rafters or trusses over the exterior of supporting walls, is the underside of eaves (to connect a supporting wall to projecting edge(s) of the roof). The vertical band at the edge of the roof is called a fascia. A soffit of an arch is frequently called an intrados.

  8. Timber roof truss - Wikipedia

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    A single arch-braced truss. Key: 1: principal rafters, 2: collar beam, 3: arch braces. Lacking a tie beam, [11] the arch-braced (arched brace) [12] truss gives a more open look to the interior of the roof. The principal rafters are linked by a collar beam supported by a pair of arch braces, which stiffen the structure and help to transmit the ...

  9. Collar beam - Wikipedia

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    The simplest form of roof framing is a common rafter roof. This roof framing has nothing but rafters and a tie beam at the bottoms of the rafters. The next step in the development of roof framing was to add a collar, called a collar beam roof. Collar beam roofs are suitable for spans up to around (4.5 meters). [5]