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Wood Truss
Moving the roof of a house in Guinea
The major overhead element of a building is its roof plane. It not only
shelters the interior spaces of a building from sun, rain, and snow, but also
has a major impact on the overall form of a building and the shaping of its
spaces. The form of the roof plane, in turn