I don't like these rooves (or roofs) PRECISELY because of the content of your reply! The architect/builder has created the house assuming it to have a 'rigid existence'; he pretends that the use of the house will remain within strict boundaries (i.e, in this case, 'no one will ever want to use the roof space').
That's plain LUDICROUS!
A house is damned nigh a 'living' thing with the owner's needs changing over time. A house is designed to have a 100 year life (at least) and the arrogant view that the architect 'knows' how it will be used by successive families for the foreseeable 100 years is damned right INSULTING! To have such a HUGE amount of covered-space rendered as totally useless by such rigid thinking is plain DAFT.
However, the real reason it's done is nothing to do with 'rigid thinking' but is about COST saving, nothing more! Nothing wrong with the principle in that.
.... but...
I don't choose to buy the cheapest bread, tea, car, clothes, etc.. The reason for that is I simply don't LIKE the cheap stuff as it's cheap because of everything of quality that's REMOVED from it!
... And that explains my dislike of such roof trusses.
It also explains why I am (staggeringly luckily) sitting in a VAST 'loft space' (my office) which was 'made habitable' by the previous owners! I paid a large amount for this house precisely BECAUSE I didn't want things like 'W' trusses!
It also explains why I much prefer old houses to modern ones. The change from 'building excellent houses to a reasonable price' to 'build a box, as cheaply as you can' appears to start in the 1950s in the UK.
Like everyone else, it's down to personal tastes and I am NOT condemning those who choose to buy modern houses, I just don't like modern houses... and that's personal!
Ian
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