'How to toggle multiple master windows orientation

I'm using the following XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumns layout

-----------------------------------
|        |               |        |    
|        |               |        |
|        |               |        |
|--------|     Master    |--------|  
|        |               |        |  
|        |               |        | 
|        |               |        |
-----------------------------------

when I use sendMessage (IncMaster 1) via hotkey it splits Master window horizontally

-----------------------------------
|        |               |        |    
|        |    Master 1   |        |
|        |               |        |
|--------|---------------|--------|  
|        |               |        |  
|        |    Master 2   |        | 
|        |               |        |
-----------------------------------

How to split it vertically or toggle it to vertical orientation? To make it like this:

-------------------------------------
|        |        |        |        |    
|        |        |        |        |
|        |        |        |        |
|--------|Master 1|Master 2|--------|  
|        |        |        |        |
|        |        |        |        |
|        |        |        |        |
-------------------------------------
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Solution 1:[1]

Solved by forking Layout and hard coding it to split vertically:

mkdir -p ~/.xmonad/lib/XMonad/Layout
wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/master/XMonad/Layout/ThreeColumns.hs" -o ~/.xmonad/lib/XMonad/Layout/My.hs

Change module name:

module XMonad.Layout.My

Fix importing XMonad.Prelude module problems:

-- import XMonad.Prelude
import Control.Monad (ap, msum)

Change behavior from this:

tile3 middle f r nmaster n
    | n <= nmaster || nmaster == 0 = splitVertically n r
    | n <= nmaster+1 = splitVertically nmaster s1 ++ splitVertically (n-nmaster) s2
    | otherwise = splitVertically nmaster r1 ++ splitVertically nslave1 r2 ++ splitVertically nslave2 r3

to this:

tile3 middle f r nmaster n
    | n <= nmaster || nmaster == 0 = splitHorizontally n r
    | n <= nmaster+1 = splitVertically nmaster s1 ++ splitVertically (n-nmaster) s2
    | otherwise = splitHorizontally nmaster r1 ++ splitVertically nslave1 r2 ++ splitVertically nslave2 r3

~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs:

--import XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumns
import XMonad.Layout.My

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