Flared Eaves Roof

Select build roof build roof from the menu and in the build roof dialog check the box beside build roof planes and click ok.

Flared eaves roof. Common in rural dutch colonial architecture. Flared eaves that part of a roof that has a gradually diminishing slope and that projects beyond the face of an exterior wall flaring outward near its lower end. When the architect had the chance wright made the eave more than a byproduct of roof construction. Flared eave describes the lower end of a steep roof that gradually diminishes in slope projecting beyond the face of the exterior wall.

Rather than extending the roofline to create eaves as you would on a flat or gable roof eaves on gambrel style roofs are flared due to the steep angle of the roof. All you do is build the standard type of eaves and add on to it to make the flared edge. At first glance you may think this would be a really challenging task but it is quite simple to achieve. What categories of eave are there.

Extensions are made to the gabled ends to provide coverage over the entrance. To add flared eaves select file close view to return to floor plan view. Flared eaves are found on dutch colonial architecture. Concurrent with the stirrings of the colonial revival the american arts crafts or craftsman style 1900 1929 espoused a return to nature simplicity and honest construction within the vernacular.

To unlock this lesson you must be a. A romantic variant was the dutch colonial 1900 1940 virtually a new suburban style featuring cottage and colonial details and most importantly a gambrel roof often with flared eaves. In later examples the flare may extend to create a porch like projection supported by columns. It is standard procedure to build eaves on any building but adding flared roof eaves really provides a decorative effect.

Overhanging eaves are characteristic of frank lloyd wright s prairie house style. For gambrel roofs the design is a little different. There are four main categories of eave which are listed below. The overhang once protected soft mortar.

Open eaves on a train station roof then there are flared eaves which curve upward at their outer edges. In the 1950s era zimmerman house in new hampshire wright used the roof eave as part of the usonian function.