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A barrel roof is a curved roof that, especially from below, is curved like a cut-away barrel. They have some advantages over dome roofs, especially being able to cover
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A barrel roof is a curved roof that, especially from below, is curved like a cut-away barrel. They have some advantages over dome roofs, especially being able to cover rectangular
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a parallelogram containin ...
buildings, due to their uniform cross-section.
Barrel vaults are a particular form of barrel roof.
See also
*List of roof shapes
Roof shapes include flat (or shed), gabled, hipped, arched, domed, and a wide variety of other configurations detailed below.
Roof angles are an integral component of roof shape, and vary from almost flat to steeply pitched.
Roof shapes diffe ...
References
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