Mansard Roof Italinate

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Mansard roof italinate.

The dramatic roof is the most important feature of second empire architecture and has a long and interesting history. Although the style was used as early as the mid 16th century in england and italy and was employed by pierre lescot at the. 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. Mansard roof type of roof having two slopes on every side the lower slope being considerably steeper than the upper.

Build a new one on the ground and lift it into position. 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. The emblem of the style is the distinctive mansard roof a device attributed to the 17th century french architect francois mansart 1598 1666. Aug 23 2010 to restore the missing mansard on his italianate house homeowner harry came dreamed up an unconventional plan.

The addition of a mansard roof found often as a fifth floor classifies those italianates as second empire named after the popularity of the mansard roof in the architecture of napoleon ii in france. It was a fantastic house but i always wanted something a little bigger. But italianate houses have much wider eaves and they do not have the distinctive mansard roof characteristic of the second empire style. Mansart is remembered by architectural historians as the father of french classical architecture but he clearly had a practical nature as well.

Like any architectural style italianate characteristics were merged and recombined with other styles emerging at the time.