Japanese Pitched Roof

By niall burke with it s steep pitched roof this house is probably the most unusual japanese house i ve featured on this blog.

Japanese pitched roof.

It is composed of a true roof above and a second roof beneath permitting an outer roof of steep pitch to have eaves of shallow pitch jutting widely from the walls but without overhanging them. Mono pitched roof shed skillion lean to roof. The hidden roof is a type of roof widely used in japan both at buddhist temples and shinto shrines. As pictured above it is likely to extend much further than a mansard besides having the lower pitched slope on the bottom.

A roof comprising a mono pitched roof or for larger buildings series of clarification needed mono pitched roofs with vertical surfaces glazed and pitched upward in general terms away from the equator though. The second roof is visible only from under the eaves and is therefore called a hidden roof while the first roof is externally visible and is called an exposed roof in english and cosmetic roof in jap. Roof pitch is a measurement of a roof s slope expressed as a ratio. Architecture studios snarkand ouvihave built house in saishikada a wooden dwellingtopped with a pitched roof in a suburban area of midori city gunma prefecture japan located in the middle of a.

A roof with one slope historically attached to a taller wall. Japanese words for roof include ルーフ 屋根 天頂 and 天頂点. The house appears to be taller than usual due to the elongated roof which starts at the top of the first floor. The upper portion of the roof is heavily pitched and the lower slope is gently pitched.

Robin is working on an extension so we thought we d shadow him for the day and see how he creates a pitched roof or semi pitched roof leading up to a flat. Designed by japanese architecture firm on design the home has a slender lean design. See more ideas about architecture architecture design pitched roof. This page provides all possible translations of the word pitched roof in the japanese language.