As I designed my house, I needed dormers…
I drove all over town, taking pictures of ones I liked…or hated…100’s of pics, then I saw THIS one, and said PERFECT. One of 500 look like this… well besides my house… have not found others..
Each panel float up naturally, simply.
The window panel is one continuous wedge to the roof axis.
Each lower panel besides the window, comes down to the first windowpane.
It is simple, classic, and “invisible”…
This house was a remodel of a 1 story house, converted to 2 stories.
The second story, nestles down into where the old roof was, making the 2nd story appear small, low, almost like a half story floor. But the 4-foot-tall windows, are resting on 3 feet of walls. Making the windows appear high from the inside, and low from the outside…clever!
A cheaper version of this does not extend past the window itself.
A cheaper version this does not go all the way to the roof (the 20-foot length, requires an extra beam, to carry the load all the way to the peak axis.
Drive around town, and even the $2M-$10M houses use the cheaper version of this dormer…. not good… a tell.
The even most often cheap TELL, is the use of crank windows, instead of sash windows… ? why.. Crank windows have a larger egress space (code..) than a sash window…so they cost less. (see my essay on windows..)