mansard roof

Examples of mansard roof in the following topics:

• Architecture of the Maya

  • The roof of the temple was topped with a crest known as a roof comb, and its facade still retains much of its stucco sculpture.
  • Like many other buildings at the site, the Observation Tower exhibits a mansard roof.
  • The Palace's Observation Tower with mansard roof, Palenque, Mexico, Late Classic period

• Thai Buddhist Architecture

  • Multiple roof tiers are an important element of the Thai temple—a technique reserved only for the roofs of temples, palaces, and important public buildings.
  • The use of multiple roof tiers is more aesthetic than functional.
  • Because temple halls are large, their roof areas are also quite large, and multiple tiers have the effect of lightening the roof's massive appearance.
  • Roofs of Thai temples are typically decorated with finials attached to the bargeboard, the long, thin panel on the edge of the roof at the gable ends.
  • The roofs of wats were commonly decorated with finials of mythical creatures.

• Architecture of the Han Dynasty

  • Thatched or tiled roofs were supported by wooden pillars, since the addition of brick, rammed earth, or mud walls of these halls did not actually support the roof.
  • Molded designs usually decorated the ends of roof tiles, as seen in artistic models of buildings and in surviving tile pieces.
  • Even models of single-story farmhouses show a great amount of detail, including tiled roofs and courtyards.
  • Han models of water wells sometimes feature tiny tiled roofs supported by beams that house the rope pulley used for lifting a bucket.
  • Notice the stone-carved decorations of roof tile eaves, despite the fact that Han Dynasty stone que (part of the walled structures around tomb entrances) lacked wooden or ceramic components (but often imitated wooden buildings with ceramic roof tiles).

• Norse Timber Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

  • In fact, the roofs of many reconstructed long houses resemble inverted boats that have been placed atop the exterior walls.
  • This shape was likely due to the climate, as pitched roofs allow snow to fall to the ground without causing the roof to collapse.
  • Logs were split in two halves, rammed into the ground, and given a roof.
  • Type B had a raised roof and free-standing internal posts, as in the Lomen Stave Church.
  • Interior from Lomen stave church depicting a raised roof and cross braces between upper and lower string beams and posts.

• Tonga

  • Traditional Tongan architecture, known as fale, consisted of a curved roof (branches lashed with sennit rope, or kafa, thatched with woven palm leaves) resting on pillars made of tree trunks.
  • Woven screens filled in the area between the ground and the edge of the roof.
  • If the winds threatened to shred the walls and overturn the roof, the inhabitants could chop down the pillars, so that the roof fell directly onto the ground.
  • Because the roof was curved, like a limpet shell, the wind tended to flow over it smoothly.

• Domestic Architecture in Modern Africa

  • Under colonial rule, the tradition of building houses out of mud walls, thatched roofs, and other traditional materials decreased while the use of cement blocks and zinc roofs became more common.

• Etruscan Temples

  • Terra cotta roof tiles protected the organic material and increased the longevity and integrity of the building.
  • The wooden roof had a low pitch and was covered by a protective layer of terra cotta tiles.
  • To further protect the roof beams from rain, insects, and birds, the end of each row of roof tiles was capped by an ornament known as an antefix.
  • Instead, they placed terra cotta statues called akroteria along the roof's ridge pool and on the peaks and edges of the pediment.

• Architecture of Djenne

  • Traditional houses are two stories with flat roofs, built around a small central courtyard.
  • The position of at least some of the outer walls appears follows those of the original mosque, but it is unclear as to whether the columns supporting the roof kept to the previous arrangement.
  • The mud-covered, rodier-palm roof is supported by nine interior walls running north-south which are pierced by pointed arches that reach up almost to the roof.
  • A narrow opening in the ceiling of the central mihrab connects with a small room situated above roof level in the tower.

• English Gothic Architecture

  • English Gothic architecture (c. 1180–1520) is defined by pointed arches, vaulted roofs, buttresses, large windows, and spires.
  • This style is defined by pointed arches, vaulted roofs, buttresses, large windows, and spires.
  • Some of the finest features of this period are the magnificent timber roofs: hammerbeam roofs, such as those of Westminster Hall (1395), Christ Church Hall, Oxford, and Crosby Hall, appeared for the first time.

• Characteristics of Romanesque Architecture

  • Romanesque design is also characterized by the presence of arches and openings, arcades, columns, and vaults and roofs.
  • The majority of buildings have wooden roofs, generally consisting of a simple truss, tie beam, or king post form.
  • In the case of trussed rafter roofs, they are sometimes lined with wooden ceilings in three sections like those that survive at Ely and Peterborough cathedrals in England.
  • In churches, typically the aisles are vaulted, but the nave is roofed with timber, as is the case at both Peterborough and Ely.
  • In Italy where open wooden roofs are common, and tie beams frequently occur in conjunction with vaults, the timbers have often been decorated, as at San Miniato al Monte, Florence.