House entrance with curved roof

A rather original entrance from friends

Great.
For my taste, many more people should embrace imagination.
I am by no means against "order" or rules and clarity, but too much is too much ... and to me, it is too much in Germany (and Europe, where I know it).

Do you know what material the front edge of the roof is made of? It looks "masonry", doesn't it?

that this is a thread I like to read along in.

I'm glad (I haven't been here long and don't know "the scene" that well yet) ... ... and besides, my experience is that especially comments from people who "have no idea about the matter" can highlight interesting aspects. In any case: best regards

some thoughts come to me very slowly
Here the plan mixes of joining several thin sheets of metal into a thick one
(which would be an experiment, of which I have no idea whether it can even succeed)
with the thought, which I can assess better, of constructing the part out of wood.
So far I have thought of wood on a metal frame. (which is a bit too uninteresting for me)

In the meantime, the method of gluing several thin (in this case waterproof) plywoods together comes to mind.
I have done that several times before and if the surface is not visible, there is a very simple method for gluing the layers together: screws.
On a template, you screw one thin plywood onto the next ... with waterproof glue ... and quickly you have a stable composite, which moves back a bit in the bend after removing it, but then stays as it is.
I think 1 x 8 and 2 x 6 millimeter thicknesses will be enough.
Of course, a waterproof layer is still needed on top – and I am thinking of metal sheet.
I still need to get roofer info, but I think the plan is already quite "promising".

I feel good about it and I will still get the missing information. Covering such wood with metal sheet is no problem craft-wise, although I still don’t know how to do it sensibly, but that will work.

And what I like: A particularly important step for my considerations was the "thick sheet metal, without substructure" idea. Without the house-building forum, I might not have come up with it.

Thank you for your support – it is a pleasure for me.

Maybe not the cheapest solution but the material copper can be very easily shaped by hand and is a well-known high-quality material. In addition, a substructure made of wood. [Spenglerblei] would also work - however, I don't really like the material close to me.

Dormers are being installed higher up on our roof. They will be covered with metal sheets. It has not been decided yet, but I think it will be titanium zinc. Copper for the "curved entrance roof" might still be affordable, but the dormers cover about half of the entire roof ... that's too much for me. Titanium zinc is not particularly attractive in color – I much prefer the "copper green" – but material colors are basically always fine with me. I'll come up with something to spice "the thing" up.

On a template, you screw a thin plywood onto the next one ... with waterproof glue ... and suddenly you have a stable composite that bends back a bit after removing it, but then it stays as it is.

That sounds like "Pagholz" (?)

Covering such wood with sheet metal is no problem from a craftsmanship point of view,

Do you want to shape the sheet metal on the bent wood (or the template)?