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And if so, what would be the reason? I live in Europe and we have majority pitched and slope roofs here. I am assuming it's mostly because the weather. For e.g. in places like California, Arizona etc, is flat roofing more common because there is very little rain as opposed to elsewhere, or does weather have very little to do with roofing style?
Flat roofs are extremely rare where I live. With our snow load, they're a recipe for disaster. They leak like a sieve. Peaked roofs are what almost everyone has where I live.
For e.g. in places like California, Arizona etc, is flat roofing more common because there is very little rain as opposed to elsewhere, or does weather have very little to do with roofing style?
Very few flat roofs here in California. I've never lived in a neighborhood with such houses. We have pitched roofs with either tiles, or asphalt shingles.
We do have a very long dry season, but then the rainy season comes with frequent cold downpours. Flat roofs would not be ideal.
Flat roofs are not practical but they are sexy and scream California in the right kind of house. I owned a flat roof house many years ago and the practical side of me regretted buying it initially because I didn't know what to expect and so many people warned me about it. It was fine in the end but the look of it was amazing - sleek, true mid century modern. Still looked like right out of a 1950s magazine even decades later when I bought it. While much of Europe was still in the depths of WWII recovery and somber in the 50s and 60s, in America sleek and sexy houses were being built with flat roofs, 2 cars in the driveway, kitchens full of whirring machines. 1950s man. Flat roofs. California dreamin'. Certainly not in every 1950s or 1960s house but some were special and many of those had flat roofs.
So yeah, they are rare and impractical. But can be very special in how they look and the era that they represent (in my mind, at least).
Really depends on area. Where I live, even some offices have pitched roofs. It snows a LOT, we can't have flat roofs due to practicality. Youd be chilling in your house and hear that slide of snow falling on it's own. That's why there's no flats out here
Flat roofs seem so devoid of any aesthetically pleasing architecture.
It's like living in a warehouse or a shoe box. Sure it's all fit form and function but shipping containers can also become a living quarters.
Maybe in the future when the planet is full of humans that need to be warehoused but right at this point in time, I like a house with good curb appeal.
Flat roofs seem so devoid of any aesthetically pleasing architecture.
It's like living in a warehouse or a shoe box. Sure it's all fit form and function but shipping containers can also become a living quarters.
Maybe in the future when the planet is full of humans that need to be warehoused but right at this point in time, I like a house with good curb appeal.
Yeah, that Frank Lloyd Wright guy. What a hack. Too bad he couldn't design an attractive house to save his life.
And when I toured Falling Waters the docent explained how there were leaks in the roof that needed constant attention and even behind the facade of a flat roof there was some slope but that snow and ice were a constant problem
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