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  2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Single-pitched (shed, skillion) roof Gable roof: Gable roof with catslide Ridged, multi-gable or m-type roof Gambrel roof: Clerestory roof: Saw-tooth roof: Hip roof: Half-hip roof: Tented or pavilion roof: Gablet roof or Dutch gable example with recessed (upper) gable and eaves: Rhombic roof/Rhenish helm: Arched roof: Barrel roof: Bow roof ...

  3. Shed roof - Wikipedia

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    Shed roof attached to a barn. A shed roof, also known variously as a pent roof, lean-to roof, outshot, catslide, skillion roof (in Australia and New Zealand), and, rarely, a mono-pitched roof, [1] is a single-pitched roof surface. This is in contrast to a dual- or multiple-pitched roof.

  4. Lean-to - Wikipedia

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    A lean-to shelter is a simplified free-standing version of a wilderness hut with three solid walls and a single- or, in the case of an Adirondack lean-to, offset-pitched gable roof. The open side is commonly oriented away from the prevailing weather. Often it is made of rough logs or unfinished wood and used for camping.

  5. Shed - Wikipedia

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    A rural shed Modern secure bike sheds A garden shed with a gambrel roof. A shed is typically a simple, single-storey roofed structure, often used for storage, for hobbies, or as a workshop, and typically serving as outbuilding, such as in a back garden or on an allotment.

  6. Shed style - Wikipedia

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    The Vanna Venturi House, one of the influences of the shed style (note the two shed roofs, rather than a single gable). Shed style refers to a style of architecture that makes use of single-sloped roofs (commonly called "shed roofs"). The style originated from the designs of architects Charles Willard Moore and Robert Venturi in the 1960s. [1]

  7. Barn - Wikipedia

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    a tack room (where bridles, saddles, etc. are kept), often set up as a breakroom; a feed room, where animal feed is stored – not typically part of a modern barn where feed bales are piled in a stackyard; a drive bay, a wide corridor for animals or machinery; a silo where fermented grain or hay (called ensilage or haylage) is stored.

  8. Open plan - Wikipedia

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    The most common design is a great room that combines the kitchen, dining room, and living room into one shared space. Such floor plans usually work well in homes with a smaller area, while larger homes have more leeway to work with [clarification needed] when integrating great rooms into a floor plan. [8]

  9. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    An exterior submerged room that is decorated with landscaping or art in which has no exterior exit or entrance. One enters and exits only through the building. Gutta In a Doric entablature, one of a number of small, projecting, drop-like ornaments under the triglyphs between the taenia and the architrave as well as under the mutules.