Roof type?

[Robert Jones]

Octogon/Hexagon? Gable/flat etc...

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[Bill Kibbel]

Polyhedron, with cross-gambrels, low-slope gable dormers and a pentagonal dipyramid on top of the turret.

Similar asked and answered here: https://inspectorsjournal.com/forum/top ... C_ID=13191

[Robert Jones]

Bill,

I am not sure I would have even known how to search that one out. Thanks for your reply. And again, how in the hell do you know that one?

[John Kogel]

I would have called it a geodesic dome with dormers and wings.

Bill's answer is technically correct of course, but that monstrosity of a home was most likely spawned from the Buckminster Fuller experiments of the 70's.

It looks like the same crew built a few of those in your area. Aren't you lucky?

Those domes leaked like sieves, but the design is ultra strong. Those houses won't be going away anytime soon. []

From Wiki:

Geodesic domes

Fuller taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina during the summers of 1948 and 1949,[11] serving as its Summer Institute director in 1949. There, with the support of a group of professors and students, he began reinventing a project that would make him famous: the geodesic dome. Although the geodesic dome had been created some 30 years earlier by Dr. Walther Bauersfeld, Fuller was awarded United States patents. He is credited for popularizing this type of structure.

One of his early models was first constructed in 1945 at Bennington College in Vermont, where he frequently lectured. In 1949, he erected his first geodesic dome building that could sustain its own weight with no practical limits. It was 4.3 meters (14 ft) in diameter and constructed of aluminum aircraft tubing and a vinyl-plastic skin, in the form of an icosahedron. To prove his design, and to awe non-believers, Fuller suspended from the structure's framework several students who had helped him build it. The U.S. government recognized the importance of his work, and employed his firm Geodesics, Inc. in Raleigh, North Carolina to make small domes for the marines. Within a few years there were thousands of these domes around the world.

His first "continuous tension ? discontinuous compression" geodesic dome (full sphere in this case) was constructed at the University of Oregon Architecture School in 1959 with the help of students.[12] These continuous tension ? discontinuous compression structures featured single force compression members (no flexure or bending moments) that did not touch each other and were 'suspended' by the tensional members.

[hausdok]

Speaking of monstrosities,

I saw this house that's under construction - and looks like it's been under construction for a lot of years - in Ferndale over the weekend. What would you call this roof, Bill?

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ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[Rob Amaral]

Speaking of monstrosities,

I saw this house that's under construction - and looks like it's been under construction for a lot of years - in Ferndale over the weekend. What would you call this roof, Bill?

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ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

I'd call that LATE MORONIC MANSARDIAN

[Rob Amaral]

Octogon/Hexagon? Gable/flat etc...

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Geodesic/Jerkin/Shed.. Definitely majoring in Geodesic

That there is some pretty gnarly-looking piece of architecture..

[thomop]

Wow. That is an impressive roof pic! Would you mind if i put that pic on my website Robert?

Cheers, Phil

[Robert Jones]

Go right ahead Phil.