Absalon
2015-09-13 12:39:06
- #1
Hello,
my first post in this forum, so first of all: hello everyone! I am inexperienced, so please excuse me if I say/ask nonsense.
We are currently planning the attic conversion of an old building (city villa, built in 1895). There is a "side wing" for the staircase (only 2.10 m deep, 6.80 m wide). Parts of the facade and staircase are protected as historic monuments, but not the roof, where interventions have already been made several times (old dormers removed, roof windows installed).
The sloping ceilings begin after an 80 cm knee wall on the 2nd upper floor, where the actual apartment is to be created. The question is what can be made of the attic above. Ceiling height in the attic reaches 2.50 m directly under the ridge, roof pitch is 45 degrees, so there is not much space.
The idea is to install a roof balcony. All variants I found online start at the exterior wall. That is not possible here, as it ends one floor below. Cutting the balcony like a loggia would also cost too much space. Is it possible to build a balcony "overhanging," i.e., extending beyond the existing roof (but not beyond the exterior walls)?
The nicest would be a roof terrace in the corner between the "main roof" and the "side wing" of the staircase.
I have never seen anything like this anywhere and wonder about statics, roof beams, etc. and so on...
my first post in this forum, so first of all: hello everyone! I am inexperienced, so please excuse me if I say/ask nonsense.
We are currently planning the attic conversion of an old building (city villa, built in 1895). There is a "side wing" for the staircase (only 2.10 m deep, 6.80 m wide). Parts of the facade and staircase are protected as historic monuments, but not the roof, where interventions have already been made several times (old dormers removed, roof windows installed).
The sloping ceilings begin after an 80 cm knee wall on the 2nd upper floor, where the actual apartment is to be created. The question is what can be made of the attic above. Ceiling height in the attic reaches 2.50 m directly under the ridge, roof pitch is 45 degrees, so there is not much space.
The idea is to install a roof balcony. All variants I found online start at the exterior wall. That is not possible here, as it ends one floor below. Cutting the balcony like a loggia would also cost too much space. Is it possible to build a balcony "overhanging," i.e., extending beyond the existing roof (but not beyond the exterior walls)?
The nicest would be a roof terrace in the corner between the "main roof" and the "side wing" of the staircase.
I have never seen anything like this anywhere and wonder about statics, roof beams, etc. and so on...