Cross Hipped Roof
A cross hipped (or hip) roof is typically utilized for a structure with an L-shaped plan. Hip roofs are more difficult to construct, requiring somewhat more complex systems of trusses, but they can be constructed on a wide variety of plan shapes.
Various types of architecture typically employ cross hipped roofs; one is the Italianate style, which was particularly popular from 1840 to 1880. This style called for a low-pitched roof. The Ranch house, which was developed in California is the mid-1930s and continued to be extremely popular until the mid-1970s, is another style of architecture that typically employed the cross hipped roof.
A particularly good style of roof to have in a very sunny place, hip roof helps to shade all of the walls of the building, unlike a gable roof which has minimal overhangs at the gables.
A hip roof is also ideal to have in hurricane regions, especially if the slope of the roof from horizontal is 35 degrees or greater (to reduce/eliminate the airfoil effect of extreme high winds that blow over the roof) as they are far less likely to peel off the house than a gable end roof.
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