A mansard or mansard roof is a four sided gambrel style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope punctured by dormer windows at a steeper angle than the upper.
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The steep roof with windows creates an additional floor of habitable space and reduces the overall height of the roof for a given number of habitable stories.
Mansard style always come with four sides with double slopes for each sides.
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Oldest women post secondary education facility canada lucky waymarking also known seminary house located centre acadia university campus wolfville nova scotia consists shaped three half storey second empire style building.
Even when they first became widespread atop new commercial buildings in a revival of the style in the 1970s people talked about disliking mansard roofs especially when they were clad in roofing shingles.
Official name of mansard roof is mansard as part of gambrel roof shape.
So mansard is basically always has the same final look.
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There is no other types of mansard roof only the way you adopt this when your house is not one perfect block.
It became a fashionable architectural feature for most of the building from that period.
The mansard roof s popularity was revived in the 1850 s during the rebuilding of paris.
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However burtoncarol management is doing something about its mansard roofs at its great northern village apartments 5272 victoria lane in north olmsted.
This roof style is a 1970 s version of a mansard roof used on second empire styled buildings most popular 1865 1880.
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The upper slope of the roof may not be visible from street level when viewed from close proximity to the building.
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After its initial debut it became fashionable again during the reign of napoleon iii during a period known as the second empire.
That honor would have to go to pierre lescot 1510 1578 who used this roofing style on a part of the louvre museum in the year 1550.
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The earliest known exampl.
Although the creation of the mansard roof is accredited to françois mansart 1598 1666 he was not the first to implement this roof architecture.
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Many people talk about how they hate mansard roofs.
