This is a two part question. attached is a photo.
Can a HIP roof have 3 sides?
Is this considered CLP? - Pilings are used on 4 corners of the home and go all the way to the ceiling joist and connecting with Straps from rafters to joist and straps from joist to pilings. Pilings are in the ground to stratus slab is poured around pilings.
Person has blueprints from build of 1984.
Pics are not great. Is that the front of the home with trees?
Yes, that is the front of the house. A lake is behind the house. I know the pics are not good.
Cannot see it well, but the whole front looks like non-hip, to be graded “other”.
Was there an attic for strap/clip pics?
I’ll defer that to the master ~ @mcyr
Wait he’ll be along 
I would call that a 3 demensional gable and I never seen on before. LOL
Thank y’all for the replies.
The roof has a flat part which is 9% of the total roof. So I understand that it has a flat part and it is not 100% HIP. I’m asking, is there such thing as a 3 sided HIP? and does that qualify for HIP status as a 91%/9%? The three sides definitely are not Gable. All roof sides of the three triangles go toward the ground.
Second. I’m asking about the CLP because I know the rule. rafters connect to joist, joist connect to wall, sill connect to foundation.
But this is probably more secure than clips and 2x4’s. These are 8x8 beam pilings drivin to the earths stratus, that go all the way to the roof joist which are connected from the pilings to the joist and from the joist to the rafters with straps. No I don’t have pictures of the straps. This is a pre question before i go examine the situation and these are google photos. The man says he was the engineer in 1984 and he has blueprints which show all of these connection and straps are part of the blueprint.
It is a hip roof by definition. You can call it a pyramid if you like, but the framing is still a hip.
The State OIR-B1-1802 form classifies a hip roof
no other shapes greater than 10% of the total roof system perimeter
That’s the subject here.
