Architectural Question

[Cmdr_Blop]

Hi, all:

I have started to get really interested in shed-style architecture, which was very popular with new homes in the late 70's and early 80's, and I have come across an interesting stylistic feature that I cannot seem to find the name of, so I am hoping someone here can help me, who knows of such things.

As you can see in the samples below, both real-world and drawn, there is a segment of the house's roof, that is left intentionally uncovered, and the timber beams are exposed for stylistic reasons.

Does anyone know the architectural name or term for this kind of feature? It seems to be prevalent on only shed-style houses, and I've searched Google for "shed roof styles", "exposed timber roof" and so on, but as of yet, I can find this kind of roof.

 

[sojourner]

The first image could be called "rafter tails", though that would not be exact. The term I see used on homeplan sites is simply "trellis".

 

[Spot's Meow]

I took a Historical Architecture course recently (American archictecture) so I have a few books with detailed pictorial indices and such, but I could not find any reference to this exact type of porch. If I had to describe it for a report I would have called it an "inset trellis-roofed porch."

 

[iguana_tonante]

Sezione di tettoia scoperta con travi di sostegno a vista.

What?

 

[Spot's Meow]

^Well, it does sound much more official when you say it in Italian!

 

[Cmdr_Blop]

^

Thanks, folks... based on what has been said here, I did a new search using "exposed rafter tails", and sure enough, I found what I wanted. Granted, there were no examples of this particular application of the style, but the look of exposed beams is apparently known as exposed rafter tails.

 

[Trekker4747]

Elongated Exposed Rafter Tails

 

[Cmdr_Blop]

Yeah, I suppose that would also work well. I have yet to find any real-world examples of this, other than the neighborhood where I took the first photo, but I'm sure there are others out there.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Yeah, I suppose that would also work well. I have yet to find any real-world examples of this, other than the neighborhood where I took the first photo, but I'm sure there are others out there.

There is a neighborhood near me, built in the 1960s and 1970s, where these types of porches are fairly common. Your first photo could be accurately described as exposed rafter tails, but in the second example it's not really rafter "tails," but besides what I suggested before I can't think of any better terms to use.

 

[scotpens]

I call it the "Roof Budget Ran Short" look.

 

[Cmdr_Blop]

Yeah, I suppose that would also work well. I have yet to find any real-world examples of this, other than the neighborhood where I took the first photo, but I'm sure there are others out there.

There is a neighborhood near me, built in the 1960s and 1970s, where these types of porches are fairly common. Your first photo could be accurately described as exposed rafter tails, but in the second example it's not really rafter "tails," but besides what I suggested before I can't think of any better terms to use.

The thing about this style is that it's not like a typical patio roof... my dad tried to use an example in our own neighborhood, but the example he cited was of a roof that was straight... in this style, the rafters literally follow the angle of the roof pitch, so that they seem to be an extension of the roof itself, and not an independently-built patio feature.

 

[Cmdr_Blop]

Here's another example of this style, from another one of the houses on that same block:

 

[Cmdr_Blop]

Okay... I have one last question about an old style of home decor...

I have been seeing this item below on just about any 80's TV show inside homes, and it is supposedly very common, yet IDK what the heck it is or is called.

It looks like it's a wood-framed set of three copper or brass circles, with picture imprints on them. I know only that it is not what is commonly called a weather station, because there are no dials or number plates on any of the circles.

Does anyone know what this item of decor is or is called?

 

[Cmdr_Blop]

Found some more smaller images of this thing... whatever it is...

 

[Guartho]

Could just be a single art item that happens to show up in set designs of different shows, like how Worf's chair turned up in Joey's apartment on Friends.