ROOF STYLES Flat Roof Gable Roof Gambrel Roof Hip Roof Mansard Roof FLAT ROOF A flat roof is a type of covering for a building In contrast to the more sloped form of roof a flat roof is horizontal or nearly horizontal ID: 475463
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Architectural FeaturesSlide2
ROOF STYLES
Flat Roof
Gable Roof
Gambrel Roof
Hip Roof
Mansard RoofSlide3
FLAT ROOF
A
flat roof
is a type of covering for a building. In contrast to the more sloped form of roof, a flat roof is horizontal or nearly horizontal.Slide4
GABLE ROOF
Gabled roofs are the kind young children typically draw. They have two sloping sides that come together at a ridge, creating end walls with a triangular extension, called a gable, at the top.Slide5
GAMBREL ROOF
Dutch Colonial
Often called a barn roofSlide6
HIP ROOF
A
hip roof
, or
hipped roof
, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.Slide7
MANSARD ROOF
Variation of the Gambrel Roof and often has dormers
This type of roof has two slopes on all sides, with a steep lower slope and a flat upper slope
A
mansard
or
mansard roof
(also called a
French roof
or
curb roof
) is a four-sided
gambrel
-style
hip roof
characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by
dormer windows
, at a steeper angle than the upperSlide8
Architectural Elements
Clapboard
, also known as
bevel siding
or
lap siding
or
weatherboard
(with regional variants as to the exact definitions of these terms), is the
cladding
or ‘
siding
’ of a house by installing long thin wooden boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall.Slide9
Victorian
Architectural Elements
Turret
GingerbreadSlide10
Architectural Elements
Ell / Lean To
- a
small and usually roughly made building that is built on the side of a larger buildingSlide11
Architectural Elements
Dormers
A
dormer
is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a
sloping
roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Slide12
Greek Revival
Architectural
Elements
Pediment
&
Portico
in architecture, triangular
gable
forming the end of the
roof
slope over a portico (the area, with a roof supported by columns, leading to the entrance of a building); or a similar form used decoratively over a doorway or
window
. The pediment was the crowning feature of the Greek temple front.Slide13
Greek Revival
Architectural
Elements
pilaster
Used to give the look of a support columnSlide14
Architectural
Elements
Fanlight
A
fanlight
is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with
glazing
bars
radiating
out like an open
fan.
It is placed over another window or a
doorway, and
is sometimes hinged to a
transom.
The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a
sunburst.
It is also called a "sunburst light
".