Hip Roof Elevation

A hip roof hip roof or hipped roof is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls usually with a fairly gentle slope although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak.

Hip roof elevation. The sloping roof lines from the highest section of the roof elevation connect this higher roof in the centre to the lower roofs on either side corresponding with the partial hip lines in the plan. Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. One expression of a hip roof pitch based on this formula would be 4 12 meaning a 4 inch vertical rise for every 12 horizontal inches. This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period.

Here we consider two types of hipped roofs see picture. 1 pyramid hip roof roof base is a square roof sides are identical isosceles triangles 2 hip roof roof base is a rectangle two sides are identical isosceles triangles and two sides are identical trapeziums. Common hip roof pitch. The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof.