The house appears to be taller than usual due to the elongated roof which starts at the top of the first floor.
Japanese pitched roof.
This page provides all possible translations of the word pitched roof in the japanese language.
By niall burke with it s steep pitched roof this house is probably the most unusual japanese house i ve featured on this blog.
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.
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.
The hidden roof is a type of roof widely used in japan both at buddhist temples and shinto shrines.
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.
Japanese words for roof include ルーフ 屋根 天頂 and 天頂点.
As pictured above it is likely to extend much further than a mansard besides having the lower pitched slope on the bottom.
A roof with one slope historically attached to a taller wall.
Mono pitched roof shed skillion lean to roof.
Designed by japanese architecture firm on design the home has a slender lean design.
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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.
Roof pitch is a measurement of a roof s slope expressed as a ratio.