A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 398
ig. 47 {a) is illus-trated a rectangular building witha roof pitched back from all foursides, forming a pyramid. The edges oa,ob, and od, inwhich these pitches meet, are called liips, and this type ofroof is known as hip roof. As the building is not square, inthis case, the pitch of the side aob… … G8 CARPENTRY. 9 proportion of rise to run is different in adjacent sides, and the pitches are necessarilydifferent. In the plan of this roof,shown at {b), the lines a cand b d show the positionof the hips intersecting at o.On the dotted line oe islaid off the distance o kequal to the height of…
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