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Give serious consideration to a hip roof, if possible.

With its honey-color cedar-plank exterior and a standing-seam aluminum hip roof, it still feels more organic than their firm’s work — and yet it has the same emphasis on craft and natural materials, most prominently wood.

Gandhi conceived of the residence, a holiday home for a Swiss lawyer, as a classic hip roof separated from the boxy undergirding of a typical Nova Scotian house.

“Imagine taking a look at a row of houses with, let’s say, these little mansard roofs or hip roofs in front,” he said.

Outside, radiating eaves extend from the home’s broad hip roof to provide cover for various patios and an outdoor kitchen.