Rectangular Pyramid Roof

The 2 shorter base lengths have smaller sides at a steeper angle.

Rectangular pyramid roof.

Hip roofs essentially lack gables or vertical sides. A pyramid hip roof differs from the more common hip roofs that are built on top of rectangular buildings because it has no ridge beam only a point. A pyramid with a rectangular base has different size sides at different angles. The pitch is the number of vertical inches that a roof descends over the span of 12 horizontal inches.

The 2 longer base lengths have larger sides at a lower angle. They are built onto a square or rectangular frame. Just like the name suggests a pyramid roof takes the shape of a pyramid and it is constructed on top of a square or a rectangular base. A regular hip roof sits on a rectangular plan with four faces.

A pyramid roof is one of the many variations of hip roofs. A pyramid roof is a type of hip roof that has four sides that are all triangle shaped and all slope downward. The longer sides have a trapezoidal shape while the sides at the front and back have a triangular shape and are called hip ends. Select output fraction precision decimal inch or metric mm.

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.