Hip roof

A hip roof is a roof shape, in contrast to the gable roof not only on the eaves side, but also on the gable end has sloping roof surfaces. These are called spherical hip.

A full hipped replaced the gable, the roof has thus on all four sides sloping. A hip roof has but definitely also a roof ridge, otherwise one speaks of a tent roof (pyramid roof).

The sloping roof surfaces provide less surface for wind, the wind load on the structure is reduced. Further, a triangle on the top surface formed by the hip rafters together with the spars and Schiftern and the purlins, which leads to a higher rigidity of the roof structure.

Schopfwalm ( Schopf roof), hipped, Halbwalm

A hipped whose eaves above the eaves of the main roof (ie: the gable is not fully hipped, he has - depending on Ethnic view - so to speak, a " tuft " or your own " crippled " roof. ) Is, therefore Schopfwalm or hipped ( North German Kröpelwalm ) called. Also Halbwalm is a well-known term. There remains a trapezoidal residual gable obtained on the roof surface is superposed. The hipped roof is the most prominent hip roof design and is considered to be particularly stable.

In the Black Forest

In Denmark

In Wengen, South Tyrol

In Aachen

The former post office in Neresheim of 1911

Settlement system in the angles of luck in Bad Reichenhall

House Lembeck in Haselunne, Emsland

Fußwalm

If only the lower part of the roof hipped ( so that a gable in the upper part is formed ), this is referred to as Fußwalm.

Traditional Korean Fußwalm roof form

Special form

As a special form of a hipped is possible, which begins either at the ridge, still ends at the eaves. This construction is structurally disadvantageous and is therefore rarely used. This roof shape is also called " Lower Gables".