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  2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Flat roof: 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 ...

  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. 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]

  5. Structural drawing - Wikipedia

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    The structural plan drawings show the foundation, floor, and roof plan of the building. These plans provide information like size and location of the structural elements present in the respective plans. Elevations show the exterior walls of a building or structure. In elevation drawings you can find the height of building (floors and roof ...

  6. Pole building framing - Wikipedia

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    Pole building design was pioneered in the 1930s in the United States originally using utility poles for horse barns and agricultural buildings. The depressed value of agricultural products in the 1920s, and 1930s and the emergence of large, corporate farming in the 1930s, created a demand for larger, cheaper agricultural buildings. [2]

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  8. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish generally follow the Mediterranean forms of architecture with stone walls and shallow roof pitch. Timber framing is often of the post and lintel style. Castile and León, par example La Alberca, and the Basque Country have the most representative examples of the use of timber framing in the Iberian Peninsula.

  9. Shed - Wikipedia

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    The main types of shed construction are metal sheathing over a metal frame, plastic sheathing and frame, all-wood construction (the roof may be asphalt shingled or sheathed in tin), and vinyl-sided sheds built over a wooden frame. Small sheds may include a wooden or plastic floor, while more permanent ones may be built on a concrete pad or ...