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2021-12-15 14:51:36
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The hermaphroditic kinked windows were such a short-lived fashion phenomenon in the early 80s that they never even had their christening and have remained a nameless phenomenon. Even the 45° corners in floor plans lasted considerably longer. As a window manufacturer, I was relieved in terms of installation warranty that I only entered the industry after this short fashion was long over. Although we were strong in roof windows, we never acquired projects with these hermaphrodites as modernization customers.To loosen up this "window sheath," there are window arrangements that combine both a knee wall window reaching down to the floor and a roof window. One line then remains of course, the windowsill is omitted.
Built-in furniture is good, but classic knee wall spaces are, from an insulation standpoint, I would say "not nice". Therefore, I advise extremely sparing use of consecutive arrangements of knee walls and knee wall gable, at most in the area of WC and shower (as long as the bathroom is not located in a cross gable).The appearance of the room can also be influenced by boxing in, e.g. storage space or built-in furniture.
Thanks to contemporaries who push regulations to the very limit, most municipalities now counteract with such strict exceptions that often only real dormers instead of at least cross dormers are possible. With knee wall roof trusses, however, real dormers are "death on a bucket," as one of my mentors would have said.In some development plans, it is possible to expand a room through dormers. Then it depends on the described length and width ratios.