1. Housing and Interiors I
6.01
Architectural Features
Sherry Brooks
David W. Butler HS

2. Roofs: What’s your style?

3. Flat Roof
One of the most economical roofs to build. Usually not covered with traditional roofing materials. There will be some slope for drainage and is usually found on commercial buildings

4. Gable Roof
Most popular residential style roof. Simple and economical to build, allows good ventilation. Can be high or low pitched

5. Hip Roof
More complicated than the gable. Provides a cornice on all 4 sides of the house. Ventilation is not good as a general rule

6. Gambrel Roof
Often called a “barn” roof. Common with Dutch Colonial style. Permits headroom on top level of home.

7. Mansard Roof
Provides extra space on top floor of house. 2 slopes on all sides, with lower slope being steep and upper slope almost flat.

8. Shed Roof Has more slope
ELL: extension built at right angles to the length of the structure

9. Architectural Features

10. Shingles
Thin, oblong pieces of material, usually wood, that are laid in overlapping rows to cover the roof and sides of structure

11. Clapboards
Boards with one edge thicker than the other laid in overlapping rows

12. Dormers
Structures projecting through a steeply pitched roof. Windows are called “dormer windows”

13. Stucco
Plaster material made of cement, sand, and lime used on siding of house

14. Pilasters
Decorative flattened columns that frame an area

15. Pediment Triangular or arched decoration above a door or window
Broken pediment

16. Cornice
Decorative strip at the area where the roof and walls meet. Can be interior or exterior.

17. Fanlight
Small, semicircular, round, or oval window with fan-shaped panes of glass above a door

18. Portico
Tall, open porch supported by columns over the front entrance

19. Gingerbread
Lacy looking cutout wood trimming

20. Gingerbread (con’t)