A showcase of green roofs
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Project • By EGM architects • Hospitals
Instituut Verbeeten
As a specialist hospital, the Verbeeten Institute provides top clinical care in the areas of radiotherapeutic oncology and nuclear medicine. It supplies tailor-made care, with every effort focusing on the patient and his experience. That's why patients and employees have been directly involved in the design. In part, their input has led to the building as it is today: a building with a Healing Environment, friendly, safe and transparent. An environment in which both patients and employees feel comfortable.Villa in a green environmentIn order to provide even better care for its patients, the Verbeeten Institute has realized a new branch next to the Jeroen Bosch Hospital. It is a unique location, with a green environment with trees and meadow... More
Project • By Bowmer and Kirkland Group • Sports Centres
The Pods
The Pods in Scunthorpe is a unique project using construction techniques never before used in a major leisure development.
Main Contractor Bowmer & Kirkland started the construction of the Sports Academy in Scunthorpe as part of an initiative by North Lincolnshire Council to kick-start the regeneration of the town. The £26m development incorporates timber framed pods covered with natural sedum roofs which provide the building with insulation and reduce excess rainwater runoff. The timber framed pods are supported by an engineered timber glulam frame which comprises hundreds of interlinked cassettes. In addition to this the roofing also reduces the load on local drainage systems as well as helping the building to blend into the neigh... More
Project • By Peter Ruge Architekten GmbH • Community Centres
Congress Center Hangzhou
Façade planning Congress Centre City of Hangzhou, China
Client: Administration Department City of Hangzhou
Architect: Pysall Ruge - Peter Ruge, Matthias Matschewski, Nicole Kubath
Project partner: DBH Stadtplanungs GmbH
General Planning Civic Center: TJADRI (Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tongji University Group Co. Ltd.)
As the new central form of the main administration building of the City of Hangzhou, capital of Zheijing Province, the Congress Centre resembles a large precious stone.
The Zheijang Province is known for its tea producing region. To express the building’s regional characteristics, design of the façade is based on the superimposed configurations of the tea cultivation pathways and the plantin... More
Project • By Ciel Rouge • Apartments
VILLA RONDE
By the japanese coast, this building includes a private museum, a guest house and a resort. It is thought as a wide free organic space in which rooms can be closed or in continuity to each other around a patio. The round shape is the best to cover the beautifull view around as well as to resist and glide in the strongs thyphons winds. The building itself seems to grow from an hill in which air system circulate to ventilate permanently the house.
Everything is thought for the best thermic natural ratio with a double facade for protecting from winds and sun, as well as the roof is covered by 30cm of earth ncluding a watering system .
The building takes the same color from the rocks as it was emerging in the green. Inside it is thought... More
Project • By Aedas • Train stations
WEST KOWLOON TERMINUS
The West Kowloon Terminus (WKT) will be the largest below ground terminus station in the world, and will function more like an international airport than a rail station, therefore the facility needs to have both custom and immigration controls. What is highly unusual in this facility is that WKT will have immigration domain for both Hong Kong and China in the same facility as opposed to how immigration works in a typical international airport.
The site’s prominence immediately adjacent to the future West Kowloon Cultural District and next to Victoria Harbor required a design which was completely motivated by civic demand. Enriching the challenge was the reality that there would be 400,000 square meters of commercial development on top of... More
Project • By Emergent Architecture • Universities
Shenyang University Complex
Urban Concept
This building complex is comprised of a vocational school, an international student hotel, a large swimming pool, and a large restaurant. The site is bounded to the west by Wanghua South Street, on the south by North Yunhe Canal, and on the east by an elevated train connecting to Beijing. The site is very loud and the traffic is fast and dangerous. Therefore the primary design consideration is to create a protected, elevated space for students above ground level. A Roof Sanctuary is created by unifying the swimming pool and cafeteria programs. The two low-rise towers of the vocational school and the student hotel book-end this green roof and provide an additional feeling of spatial boundary and protection.
The Roof Sanctu... More
Project • By Diller Scofidio + Renfro • Restaurants
Hypar Pavilion
The dual requirements of a destination restaurant and a public green within the limited open area of Lincoln Center’s North Plaza are satisfied in a single gesture sited between the reflecting pool and the plaza’s north edge. A twisted plane of lawn is elevated to act as an occupiable green roof over a glass pavilion restaurant. The hypar touches down at the SW corner plaza for access to the lawn and has two high points at SE and NW corners. The resulting topography is oriented away from city noise and traffic to create a bucolic urbanism. The contoured wood ceiling of the restaurant frames views to the plaza and the street. A split kitchen serves 160 diners and 40 at the bar. More
Project • By ZinCo GmbH • Parks/Gardens
Sky Gardens – Fusionopolis
Fusionopolis is a high-rise and high-security commercial complex that houses local and overseas occupants. It conceives three high-rise towers (one being 22 floors and two being 24 floors) and a podium occupying a land area of 12.000 m² over an underground car park. In this unique environment, sky gardens and green roofs played a very special role in striking a balance between the intended landscape design and the practical use for the occupants.
The main gardens are situated on the crucial floors with the transitions to the other towers. These roof gardens have a dense vegetation comprising trees with heights of up to 5 metres and shrubs of up to 1.5 metres. Furthermore, many small but visible gardens were built on balconies in the ou... More
Project • By KWK Promes Konieczny • Private Houses
OUTrial House
A green clearing surrounded by forest was the only context for the proposed small house. Hence the idea to “carve out” a piece of the grass-covered site, move it up and treat it as the roofing to arrange all the required functions underneath. When the whole was ready, the client came up with another request, to create some space for a small recording studio and a conservatory. The latter was obtained by linking the ground floor with the grassy roof through an “incision” in the green plane and “bending” the incised fragment down, inside the building.
This procedure turned the roof into an atrium, as the only way to reach it was through the interior of the house. As opposed, however, to a typical atrium, the newly-created space has all th... More