Talk:Saddle roof

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I've uploaded an svg image is this of sufficient quality to replace the current jpg one?



AndrewHarvey4 (talk) 23:35, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks OK to me. Newell Post (talk) 00:39, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

I removed the request for photo and added one. Newell Post 05:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

other kinds of saddle roof
I see that several articles use the phrase "saddle roof" to describe something other than the hyperbolic paraboloid shown in this article.

Articles including Dritt Mansion, Capernaum Church, St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Leigh, Franklin House (Athens, Georgia), Oostum, and Rittergut Kürbitz seem to show a roof composed entirely of flat planes. I suspect this form may be the most common referent of the phrase "saddle roof", and so (in accordance with WP:COMMONNAME) this article should at least mention it.

Other articles including Batak architecture and Architecture of Indonesia seem to use "saddle roof" to describe a curved shape with a sharp ridgeline that is clearly not a hyperbolic paraboloid.

Is there some other article(s) that discuss these other kinds of "saddle roof"? Are there other words or phrases that are used to distinguish these (at least) 3 kinds of saddle roof? How can we improve this "saddle roof" article by mentioning these other kinds of saddle roof? --DavidCary (talk) 01:58, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

reverse hyperbolic paraboloid
The Saddledome article mentions "The roof of the building was designed to be a reverse hyperbolic paraboloid". How is that any different than any other hyperbolic paraboloid? --DavidCary (talk) 02:05, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Wiesen Ansitz Wiesenheim 01.JPG
I have removed this image because I am quite sure that the user who put it there confused the English term "saddle roof" with the German term "Satteldach", which means "gable roof". The tower that the caption referred to definitely has a gable roof, not a saddle roof. Kelisi (talk) 04:49, 7 October 2019 (UTC)