Unusual Roof Shapes

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Unusual roof shapes. In fact hip roofs are an excellent choice for both snowy and high wind regions. It s rather odd looking roof design and is not used much. In 1896 the diamond patterned ceramic roof tiles were added by architect frgyes schulek. The roof s bright teal orange red green tiles make intricate patterns on the rooftop including flowers chevrons and crosses.

That is a sub variation of hip style but is actually unusual. This is an interesting v shaped roof made of two tandem pieces angled on the outside. It is a window and a roof gabled hipped flat among others protruding from the existing slope of the roof. A functional dormer creates usable space out of the roof adding natural light and headroom.

4 unique slate roofing shape and design inspirations plain. Like gable roofs hips make use of a ridge but a hip roof will never connect to a wall interface as gable does. Tongkonan are the center of torajan social life. Inverted curve roof a traditional curved roof slopes down toward the ground but this hyper modern curved roof bends up toward the sky.

The butterfly roof is an inverted gable roof. They stand high on wooden piles topped with a layered split bamboo roof shaped in a sweeping curved arc and they are incised with red black and yellow detailed wood carvings on the exterior walls. A dormer is more an addition to an existent roof. They re trickier to build but a curved roof will definitely set your house apart from the neighbors and it can lend some subtle shape to the inside ceiling as well.

The valley in the midsection of the roof allows collection of rainwater making this roof type ideal for high drought areas. Although more common than many of the other styles on this list this style is a textured tweak on. Jun 21 2014 explore peter lowry s board unusual roofs on pinterest. Thanks to the inward slope of these four sides hip roofs are sturdier more stable and can last longer than gable roofs.

Hip roofs have four sides with slopes of equal length that come together at the top forming a ridge. The unique slope of a butterfly roof provides efficient snow and rainwater management. The word tongkonan comes from the torajan tongkon to sit. However one benefit of the butterfly roof is you end up with tall ceilings on two sides of the home.

Though previously for the 4 sloped roof aka hip roof we depicted that as a pyramid roof.