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low roof/house height

  • 08-08-2015 12:10PM
    #1
    18MonthsaSlave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 571 ✭✭✭


    Is it much more complicated to build a single storey house/cottage where the exterior walls are only the height of the door with a low angle roof and then the ceiling height raises to a normal 8ft high inside. This leaves you loosing the top corners of the exterior facing walls in the internal rooms.
    With a house which is about 6metres/20ft deep does the roof need some sort of additional complicated(read expensive) support or materials compared to the conventional design of a house which is just a triangle roof on top of a uniform rectangular box.
    Objective would be to minimize height of the single storey house and reduce visual impact.
    anyone got any links to examples of this if they exist?


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  • #2
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 44,925 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    It would look completely wrong as the roof plane would probably be more than twice the wall plane.

    Just redesign so that the house is narrower and not as square.


  • #3
    18MonthsaSlave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 571 ✭✭✭18MonthsaSlave


    Is that why it works/looks acceptable for 1 1/2 storey houses but not 1 storey?


  • #4
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 44,925 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    18MonthsaSlave wrote: »
    Is that why it works/looks acceptable for 1 1/2 storey houses but not 1 storey?

    Yes :)


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