A-frame house

A -Frame is a multi-faceted architectural form to a facility that is a feature in common: there except the gable ends visible above the ground only the roof. So there are at Nurdachhaus under the eaves, no side walls; the roof extends down to the ground.

Examples

  • The Porsche office in Dortmund at the airport
  • The "house home " at Moehnesee on the south side baskets Shrouded
  • The Frammuseum in Oslo (Norway )
  • The Hutchinson Auditorium, Florida, United States
  • The Louvre input
  • In Sophiental ( Wendeburg ) is an A-frame housing estate.

Porsche subsidiary Dortmund Airport as A-frame construction

Widespread model of an A-frame holiday home ( house sun corner, Leinsweiler )

Finnhütte

As a chalet, house or even Finn Finland house is called a wooden house with a pointed gable roof that extends to the bottom and thus saves two walls. In Germany, the construction is to be found with this name, especially in the East frequently ( former GDR ), where this type of house was popular as garden homes in the past. In Altbundesgebiet the house type is rare and the name Finnhütte uncommon for it. The in 1972 in the Baltic Sea Damp timbered DDR craftsmen cottages where they are called tent -roof houses, but also have a dual-surface saddle roof ( roof tent referred to in building a tetrahedral Roof type ).

The name goes back to the fact that houses of this type were first used in Scandinavia and Finland, but it is in Scandinavia itself is no longer very common.

Cottages are suitable for residential purposes (including two stories ), but also as a partially open commercial buildings ( hiking rest cabin, bus stop, shed ). Chalets are frequently encountered as holiday houses on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom, in the Harz, in the Thuringian Forest and the Ore Mountains, but also in the eastern plains and mountains in East Central Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania).

Farmhouses in Madeira

The cottages similar, but traditionally thatched houses with reaching to the floor gable roofs are found in Madeira, particularly in Santana in the north of the island.

Pyramid shapes

Pyramid shapes can also be classified as frame houses; certainly this is true for, designed by IM Pei pyramid entrance in the courtyard of the Louvre in Paris, where the glass pyramid roof function has. It is even in multiples meaning " roof only ": it has no other function structurally viewed (except of art and mark the starting point of the "Great axis" ), and she also has no gables.

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