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2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   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. Compare with bell-cast eaves. Domed; Onion dome or rather an imperial roof; Bochka roof; Conical roof or cone roof; Hyperbolic Saddle

3. Upmeads - Wikipedia

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   The architectural writer Alan Powers considers Upmeads, and Wood's other flat-roofed houses, to be examples of "proto-Modernism", [30] [35] writing that "Upmeads was as modern as houses ever got before 1914" [36] with a design "more refined than any previous experiment in the domestic use of concrete", but considers the house to be a "dead end ...

4. Octagon house - Wikipedia

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   The house has a flat roof, sloping gently towards the center. Rainwater from the roof was collected in a reservoir at third-floor level, and overflows into a cistern next to the kitchen in the basement. Publications regularly state the house has 57 rooms; however this includes every closet and passage.

5. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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   13 Modern and Post-modern. ... This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of ...

6. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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   Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. [1] Such roofs are built with mostly timber , take a number of different shapes , and are covered with a variety of materials .

7. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   A gablefront house or gablefront cottage has a gable roof that faces its street or avenue, as in the novel The House of Seven Gables. A-frame : so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A.