Office In The Barn Gambrel Barn Art

by Reid Callaway

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Office In The Barn Gambrel Barn Art

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Reid Callaway

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Photograph - Photography

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Office in The Barn...by Reid callaway
Gambrel Barn Art

Located in the Great Smoky Mountains, this Gambrel shaped farm barn also doubles as an office with contrasting windows. Notice the air vent boards along the top for ventilation.

A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. (The usual architectural term in eighteenth-century England and America was "Dutch roof.") The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom inside the building's upper level and shortening what would otherwise be a tall roof. The name comes from the Medieval Latin word gamba, meaning horse's hock or leg. The term gambrel is of American origin, the older, European name being a curb (kerb, kirb) roof. Europeans historically did not distinguish between a gambrel roof and a mansard roof but called both types a mansard. In the United States, various shapes of gambrel roofs are sometimes called Dutch gambrel or Dutch Colonial gambrel with bell-cast eaves, Swedish ~, German ~, English ~ , French ~, or New England gambrel.

The cross-section of a gambrel roof is similar to that of a mansard roof, but a gambrel has vertical gable ends instead of being hipped at the four corners of the building. A gambrel roof overhangs the fa�ade, whereas a mansard normally does not.

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November 7th, 2016

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