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4 Solutions for Roofs without Eaves (and their Construction Details)

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Image © Sergio Camplone In his Robie House , Frank Lloyd Wright created an ingenious arrangement of public and private spaces that slowly moving away from the street through a series of horizontal planes. Pronounced eaves made the interior space expand toward the outside. Read more »

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madeiguincho repurposes cargo container as tiny house with sunken roof terrace

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the wooden interiors are kept simple and snug with an L-shaped layout and ample daylight filtering through several windows. The post madeiguincho repurposes cargo container as tiny house with sunken roof terrace appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

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Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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Britsom Philips reconfigures Belgian home with minimalist interiors and thatched roof

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Situated in a woodland clearing in the village of Waasmunster, the expanded home has been clad in timber planks and topped by a thatched roof, both chosen as they will gradually weather and blend in with the surroundings. The photography is courtesy of Britsom Philips.

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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

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An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly's wings. Here are eight buildings with butterfly roofs from the Dezeen archive.

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COA Arquitectura tops Mexico winery with sawtooth roof

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Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.

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The DHaus Company revamps London house with butterfly-roof extension

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An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus Company has created an extension with a butterfly roof "The butterfly roof is visually striking," The DHaus Company told Dezeen.

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