Often found on church towers.
Roof and building design named.
Interestingly you can mix and match roof styles when building a gable and valley roof designs for a cross footprint home.
A pyramidal roof with gable ends.
The profile of the roof actually features two slopes within one on each side.
It may consist of a flat roof on top but the main design element is the multi pitch sloped in what is essentially a hip roof on top of another hip frame.
The french mansard design is perhaps the kind of roof that most looks like a comfortable hat to adorn your building.
Helm roof rhenish helm.
The bottom part of the roof slope is steeper so that the pitch of the roof barely starts.
It s also known as a cross gable roof since the home has a cross footprint.
The gable and valley roof is a very popular roof design.
Also known as the french roof the mansard is characteristic of french building architecture though many homes take advantage of it s framing design.
A multi tiered and spired roof commonly found in burmese royal and buddhist architecture.
Tented a type of polygonal hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak.
Thanks to an inherently simple design gable roofs are easier and cheaper to install than many of their counterparts.
The earliest roofs constructed by man were probably thatched roofs that were made of straw leaves.
Pyramid roof pavilion roof.