A hipped roof laid on top of a square structure creates a pyramid hip roof or the pavilion roof.
Framing pyramid hip roof.
Hip and valley roof.
Outlined below are the basic steps towards framing a pyramid hip roof.
Nails 3 1 2 inches long.
The hips are in red common rafters yellow and for hips to work on a square roof like above each member is equal.
A hip roof has four slanted sides unlike a gable roof that is shaped like a tent and has only two sides.
Decide on the pitch of the pyramid roof you want to construct.
Kindly consult with your local roofing expert for more refined processes.
If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters.
All four sides of the roof are equally hipped at all corners and they meet at a single centralized peak forming a distinct pyramid.