![]() Many instances of the new gabled roof generation share a lack of conventional gutters: “Without overhangs, we collect water around the base of the house into a gravel basin with piping below grade,” Bruns explains. The conventional expressions and materials have changed, but it’s still a gabled typology,” Bonner says. “Radically different but familiar” is how Jennifer Bonner, founder of MALL and associate professor of architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, describes her own Atlanta residence, Haus Gables, which she designed as a life-size study of asymmetrical gabled roofs built of cross-laminated timber, which also allows interior views unimpeded by support beams and posts. It feels familiar and nice to engage it, but also to find ways we can subvert it.” His housing slightly tweaked for each site, mirrors the scale and rhythm of surrounding neighborhoods because, as he says, “I get a particular delight out of addressing a formal typology, a context in which I grew up. ![]() Jonathan Tate, founder, and principal of his eponymous firm OJT (Office of Jonathan Tate) has taken context to the next level by creating a unique local design language in New Orleans with his distinctive rooflines. In this case, she says, “it was relevant to being contextual.” “It’s not like we want to be known as the pitched-roof architects,” says Chia of the extra effort needed to deploy the type here. Specially engineered framing by David Kufferman PE Structural Engineers allowed conditions that expose the steep vault created by the sloped roof, unobstructed by the usual trusses and beams. ![]() Because they chose the gabled roof over something edgier-such as the undulating butterfly-shaped roofline they used on a different project, Michigan Lake House-the firm went to great lengths to find technology that could help reveal the form on the interior. Image © William Crockerįor a weekend house in Connecticut, Desai Chia recast the regional gabled barn typology in Japanese-style charred Kebony yellow pine wood siding known as shou sugi ban. The veterans’ housing is arranged so the front doors face inner courtyards-quads with a shared entry point and equal access to streets. Save this picture! OJT’s Bastion Community in New Orleans features trauma-informed design principles. And while three examples of that innovation would usually suggest a trend dozens viewed over the past few years signal an evolution-or at least that there’s an encouraging number of firms that have jettisoned binary thinking when it comes to American house styles. It can completely fit in while still being innovative,” says Katherine Chia, principal of New York-based firm Desai Chia Architecture with Arjun Desai. “‘Contextual’ doesn’t have to be over-the-top traditional. After years of being viewed (and taught) as a feature at odds with Modern architecture, there seems to be a gable 2.0 emerging. So it’s meaningful that gabled roofs are experiencing a revival across North America in new variations and materials at a time when clients and communities tend to weigh each project’s social and environmental impact. Gabled roofs are as potent a symbol of Americanness as apple pie: The roof typology and dessert are European, yet both are viewed as emblematic of national domesticity. Emblematic of the US, this article discusses its return to the urban fabric. According to its definition, a gable roof is a classic roof shape, usually in cold or temperate climates, consisting of two roof sections sloping in opposite directions and placed such that the highest, horizontal edges meet to form the roof ridge. In this week's piece by Metropolis, author Kelly Beamon explores in her original article "the patriotism associated with pitched roofs and shares how architects are reimagining this staple of suburban house styles".
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