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Roof ceiling beam design.
The roof cavity between rafters can be filled with insulation followed by installation of a perfect vapor barrier followed by finish surface of drywall or whatever else.
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The beams serve both equally.
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The beamed ceiling is an example where function and form are equally important and are equally sought after.
A structural ridge beam is a horizontal beam placed at the peak or ridge of a roof and is designed to carry much of the live and dead loads or weight of the roof structure by itself.
In cases where there is no under roof venting system no soffit intake vents no ridge vents a hot roof design is followed.
Typically the roof beam is made by nailing together a few pieces of dimensional lumber.
The loads on the ridge beam are carried by vertical posts at the beam ends down through the building structural walls to the building foundation.
The cliche of the thatched roof cottage smoky and oppressive with dark exposed beams overhead belongs.
In other words the function is to support the ceiling form is the aesthetic quality.