Specifically, the construction of a brick house with a
gable roof. Inside the building there will be a publicly accessible sanitary facility with showers for disabled people, a room for administrators including toilets, a common room with a kitchenette and a bicycle storage room.
A shed or
gable roof, a door at one or both ends, and a colple of small doors high up just under the eaves on one side complete the thing.
Construction detail include a wood frame structure on a concrete slab foundation, a combination wood, brick veneer exterior and a wood supported
gable roof with an asphalt shingle cover.
Light-weight buildings with
gable roof have been widely used in low-rise industrial buildings due to high degree of industrialization and rapid speed of construction; however, their relatively light dead load and flexibility make them most vulnerable to wind load which becomes a very important load type in structural design.
The intent is to explore some deviations from the basic hip or
gable roof design used commonly for rectangular floor plans, while allowing both architectural flexibility and energy production advantages.
Thirteen example problems calculate design wind pressures for a commercial building with concrete walls, a tall office building, a house with a
gable roof, a U-shaped apartment building, a billboard, and a domed-roof building.
The old hangar, built in 1924-25, was deemed historically significant for its then innovative use of engineering technology that used large steel beam trusses to support a low-pitched
gable roof. The truss roof span was reportedly the largest span of beam used up to that time.
For example, if the structure was built in 1890, was two stories high with a
gable roof and the footprint depicted a rectangular building with the length perpendicular to the road, then a reasonable choice would be National Folk Style and the subtype would be gable-front.
Though simple, a
gable roof that's designed by an imaginative architect or builder won't look dull or boring.
Tucson architect Bill Gansline supported the
gable roof of Chris and Reed Harris's house with prefabricated trustees, then stepped the floor down, following the contours of the site.
The kindergarten on the west side is complemented by a gastronomic operation with a dining room, which is a single-storey building with a
gable roof and a rectangular ground plan, turned by 90 compared to the kindergarten.
Complete snow design examples of a
gable roof metal building with a roof step, a pole barn with a hip roof, and a single-family residence round out the book.
gable roof - a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end