[gbalint]

In Hungary there is a public project to create freely accessible house plans with all necessary documentation to start to build them. The website is only available in Hungarian (but google translate manages to translate it quite well), and the houses are mostly really small compared to American standards, and their style is just way different from American houses. Anyway, let me drop the link here, maybe there is something interesting to be found there: https://www.oeny.hu/oeny/nmtk/mintatervek

[ilyt]

Now I'm interested, why would someone in

https://www.oeny.hu/oeny/nmtk/tervreszletek/NMTK-138

waste all that space on the recessed entrance instead of just making straight wall to the roof ?

[seszett]

It provides shadow and protection from rain above the entrance. It's a pretty common design.

[ilyt]

Okay but why not separate small roof over entrance? This design is making wall more complex (now whole roof overhangs over entrance) for not all that much gain.

[seszett]

Well it's sometimes forbidden to have multiple roof sections, I don't know about Hungary but it might be often the case there.

And it looks very different, I wouldn't do it at least.

[koliber]

- it looks nice and is a popular style right

- there might be distance requirements between the building and the lot boundary which would prevent a roof from sticking out