Following this opportunity, we want to highlight great examples of roofs that also become walls: 13 houses in which the roof completes the façade, delineating not only the interior in its ...

Sweet pitched roof house in France gets a green makeover with bio-sourced materials. Design Architecture. 03/21/2016. ... and a kitchen and laundry situated in the third section.

Flat roofs share one trait: with time, they tend to leak. You can, of course, have a new hot-tar-and-gravel roof put down but sometimes there may be a design reason for adding a pitched roof as a ...

Early in his career, the Frenchman designed a building with a conventional pitched roof. At the first snowfall, it leaked like a sieve, a result, it seems, of his own inexperience.

We are designing a pitched roof for our 1950s-era home that has an almost-flat torch-down roof. We want to update the look and get a better roofing system. The engineer and construction company ...

Most of the problems associated with pitched roofs are in the valleys and at the eaves and that’s why you’re now required to use ice-and-water shield on the first three feet of the eaves and ...

Q: I have a house that was built in the 1970s and that has a flat roof with a small parapet wall around it. Can I have a pitched roof put on top of the flat roof? Do homeowners ever do that? A ...