Pyramid roof
Pyramid roof on St. Mark's Tower in Venice
A pyramid roof is a roof shape that is represented by four identical roof surfaces inclined towards each other over a square building cross-section (building with four sides on the same side), which converge in a point, often closed with a tower ball or weather vane . Examples of this are tower roofs.
The pyramid roof is a special case of the tent roof .
literature
- Eduard Schmitt, Theodor Landsberg: Roofs, roof shapes and roof truss constructions. Arnold Bergstrasse publisher, Stuttgart 1897.
Web links
Commons : Pyramid Roofs - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schiftung section to a wooden pyramid roof (PDF; 260 kB)