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2. Flat roof - Wikipedia

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   Flat roof in Los Angeles. Flat roof in Warszawa Centralna railway station in Poland (1975) A flat roof is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs. The slope of a roof is properly known as its pitch and flat roofs have up to approximately 10°. [1] Flat roofs are an ancient form mostly used in arid climates and ...

3. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings. [citation needed] (Säteritak in Swedish.) Mansard (French roof): A roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.

4. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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   The free design of the façade enables all perspectives of the building to be viewed concurrently, and conceals any visible supporting structures. Striped sliding windows surround the length of the exterior; and the roof garden embodies a natural progression of previous open floor plans. [16]

5. Octagon house - Wikipedia

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   The McElroy Octagon House on Gough St. San Francisco, California; structural concrete construction (built 1861) Octagon houses are eight-sided houses that were popular in the United States and Canada mostly in the 1850s. They are characterized by an octagonal (eight-sided) plan and often feature a flat roof and a veranda that circles the house.

6. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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   Ctrs. means centers, a typical line to which carpenters layout framing. 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. 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 ...

8. Jacobean architecture - Wikipedia

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   Although the general lines of Elizabethan design remained, there was a more consistent and unified application of formal design, both in plan and elevation. Much use was made of columns and pilasters, round-arch arcades, and flat roofs with openwork parapets. These and other classical elements appeared in a free and fanciful vernacular rather ...

9. Western false front architecture - Wikipedia

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   Western false front architecture or false front commercial architecture is a type of commercial architecture used in the Old West of the United States. Often used on two-story buildings, the style includes a vertical facade with a square top, often hiding a gable roof. The goal for buildings in this style is to project an image of stability and ...