Titles and categories scraped by algorithm from on-line sources:

Pattern Number: 232

Pattern Title: Roof Caps

Category: Construction

Sub-Category: Put in the following subsidiary patterns

Up links: 118 Roof Garden 220 Roof Vaults

Horizontal links: 168 Connection to the Earth

Down links: 249 Ornament

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Summaries of content, keywords and links generated by algorithms. Thank you smmry.com:

Summary 1: There are few cases in traditional architecture where builders have not used some roof detail to cap the building with an ornament.

Summary 2: Choose a natural way to cap the roof - some way which is in keeping with the kind of construction, and the meaning of the building.

Summary 3: The roof cap helps to finish the building; it tops the building with a human touch.

Summary 4: Look at these sketches of a building, with and without a roof cap.

Summary 5: In the building system we propose, the roof caps are weights we use at the ridge of the roof to make the slight curve in the pitched sides of the roof.

Summary 6: Finish the roof caps any way you want, but don't forget them - ORNAMENT.....

Keywords: roof cap build need way

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