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The Roof in Mexican House Design When you build for cold, snowy regions, you tend to end up with a house that is compact in its form, to hold in the heat, with a steep roof, to shed the snow. That latter feature is missing in Mexico. Roof pitches are shallow, and flat roofs are common.

The Spanish tile roof is ubiquitous in Mexico, except where flat roofs make the roof entirely invisible. I love Spanish tile, because I love things that last, and because I love the color it adds to a house. It is costly compared to a composite roof, yet composite shingle roofs are almost unheard of in Mexico.

It is a mystery to me how a relatively poor country covers its homes with expensive tiles, while a wealthy nation covers its homes with much cheaper shingles. The abundance of the flat roofs in Mexico may come from the use of flat roofs on adobe homes in the Northern regions of Mexico. These are not much different than the flat roofs you find in the Middle East.

They do very well in dryer regions. What we find normal and acceptable in a house is culturally conditioned. When the houses of a region’s past are flat-roofed this conditions them to enjoy that same look in contemporary homes.

Yet this same roof is favored by modernist architects of various flavors. It is my theory that this has made modern houses much more common and acceptable in Mexico than in the United States. The construction of roofs is also different.

Newer homes are likely to have reinforced concrete roofs, even if they are later covered with tile. In the United States if would be common to use wood rafters covered in plywood even for a house with concrete walls. Partly this can be explained by the gentler slopes of Mexican roofs.

It is difficult to pour a steep roof, but easy to pour a roof with a gentle slope. I assume the prevalence of the concrete roof is also a matter of its superior performance during earthquakes.

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