Step 1 pick the pitch of the roof you are building.
Pyramid hip roof truss.
A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features.
It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features.
A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid.
A hipped roof laid on top of a square structure creates a pyramid hip roof or the pavilion roof.
A pyramid hip roof differs from the more common hip roofs that are built on top of rectangular buildings because it has no ridge beam only a point.
A pyramid roof is one of the many variations of hip roofs.
All four sides of the roof are equally hipped at all corners and they meet at a single centralized peak forming a distinct pyramid.
The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof.
A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces.
Hip roofs essentially lack gables or vertical sides.
A pyramid hip roof is built on a square building with four triangular sides that meet at a point at the top.
These pyramid roof structures are usually found atop gazebos and other pavilion buildings.
They are almost always at the same pitch or slope which makes them symmetrical about the centerlines.
Here we consider two types of hipped roofs see picture.