Roof shape
As a roof shape is defined as the outer shape or cubage of a roof . The structural implementation takes place through the roof structure . This article provides an overview of different roof shapes.
Roof shapes can be classified based on their parameters:
- flat or curved
- single or multi-surface
- non-directional (e.g. round or square base) or directional (e.g. rectangular base)
- additional bevel on the gable side that differs from the shape on the eaves side (e.g. crooked hip roof, hip foot roof, crooked mansard roof)
General roof shapes
Here is a selection of basic roof shapes:
- Flat roof
- Monopitch roof
- Offset pent roof
- Gable roof
- Tails
- Only roof
- Butterfly roof
- Tent roof or pyramid roof
- Hipped roof
- Crooked hip roof
- Mansard gable roof
- Mansard roof with forelock
- Hipped foot roof
- Hipped mansard roof
- Mansard roof with hip hip
- Shed roof
- Parallel roof
- Ditch roof
- Barrel roof
- Arched roof
Other, more complex roof shapes:
Side roof | Roof with monitor | Lantern roof | Pointed barrel roof |
Pagoda roof | Berlin roof | Stuttgart roof | Hyperbolic paraboloid shell |
Note: Pointed roof is not a clearly defined term. But it is colloquially sometimes used for a gable roof (because of its pointed gable).
Roof shapes on towers and church spiers
For reasons of statics, aesthetics and convention, roofs on towers , especially church towers , often have special roofs. Here is a selection:
- Conical roof
- Domed roof
- Gable roof
- Tent roof
- Wedge roof
- Rhombic roof
- Bell roof
- Cross roof
- Folding roof
- Helmet roof
- Kink helmet
- Onion roof
- Welsche hood
Selection criteria
- Location
- economics
- Zoning plan
- Neighboring buildings
- Building geometry
- Architectural reasons
literature
- Eduard Schmitt, Theodor Landsberg: Roofs, roof shapes and roof truss constructions. Arnold Bergstrasse publisher, Stuttgart 1897.
- Susanne Wartzeck, Eva Maria Herrmann, Martin Krammer, Jörg Sturm: Wrapping and construction: walls, facade, roof. Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-0346-0206-8 .
- Eberhard Schunck, Hans Jochen Oster, Rainer Barthel, Kurt Kiessl: Roof Atlas: Inclined Roofs . 4th edition. Institute for international architecture, Munich 2002 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
See also
Web links
Commons : Roof shape - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Eberhard Schunck, Hans Jochen Oster, Rainer Barthel, Kurt Kiessl: Dach-Atlas: Inclined roofs . 4th edition. Institute for International Architecture, Munich 2002, p. 35 ( limited preview in Google Book search).