Architecture Gable Roof House

Completed in 2016 in kyoto japan.

Architecture gable roof house.

Sharp gable roofs are a characteristic of the gothic and classical greek styles of architecture. As seen here a front gable became the perfect entryway to a suburban garage in the age of the private automobile. The opposite or inverted form of a gable roof is a v roof or butterfly roof. Avignon clouet architects builds summer house with removable roof in france the roof overhang seems like it defies the laws of gravity and acts as a cap extending the living space.

The gables in classical greek temples are called pediments. Gable style is also used in the design of fabric structures with varying degree sloped roofs dependent on how much snowfall is expected. The gable is the wall created from a gable roof when you close up a two planed roof triangular walls result on each end defining the gables. A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable wall at the top and hipped lower down.

The architectural treatment of a gable results from the effort to find an aesthetically pleasing solution to the problem of keeping water. The opposite arrangement to the half hipped roof. We tried to interpret traditional gabled roofs in new way because of kyoto s townscape codes within the framework of modern dwellings. Overhanging eaves forming shelter around the building are a consequence where the gable wall is in line with the other walls of the buildings that is unless the upper gable or gables is.

Images by yasutake kondo. The wall gable is similar to a classical pediment but more simple and functional like a basic element of laugier s primitive hut. Nov 21 2017 explore leonie evans s board gable roof on pinterest. Kitorepe architects has combined a house and ceramic gallery under a long gable roof in arita a town famous for the arita yaki pottery in the western end of saga prefecture japan.

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