Green rooftop usage ideas
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about green rooftop usage ideas
News • Specification • 16 Jan 2024
10 accessible cultural and community green roofs
Green roofs are increasingly looked upon with favor in building projects across the world, their advantages, from minimizing energy consumption to improving biodiversity, often balancing their costs. A green roof system comprises a number of elements, including: a high-quality waterproof layer, root repellent system, drainage, filter cloth, soil, and vegetation.
There are different types of green roofs with extensive green roofs and intensive green roofs being two of the most common versions. Extensive green roofs require relatively little maintenance, use more straightforward plant species, and are not designed for people. Intensive green roofs are accessible, their structures able to accommodate a range of heavier vegetation and users.&n... More
Product • By Unity Surfacing Systems • Pave-Land Series
Pave-Land Series
Our 1.75” and 2” thick Pave-Land Series is designed to meet and exceed all of your project needs for use on infant/ toddler playground areas (yielding a 4ft and 5ft fall rating), rooftops, recreational areas, fitness facilities and more. It is the foundation for a smart, long-term investment in durability and beauty that will last for years to come.As the industry leader, the superior raw materials we provide, coupled with our proprietary manufacturing process, unique design and large size product gives you the strongest, highest quality, environmentally friendly rubber tile system above all overs.All of our products are independently laboratory tested with respect to ASTM, CPSC, AD, FM safety standards and guidelines to be inst... More
Project • By BoysPlayNice • Apartments
Rooftop Laundry
The late works of Siegfried Morkowitz are best represented by his poem Sentence recently published in the B O D Y Magazine. The melancholy fills the space while the poem is read. For us it worked better than any client specification.Our task was clear at the first sight, we needed to keep the soul of the space, while building a retreat for the creative mind. The disused laundry at the top of a 19th century mestansky dum had it all. In the very heart of the Prague’s Jewish quarters, hidden in the attic, five stories above the havoc of the Old Town. In the very center, though touching the sky. Years of labour soaked up in the walls created the perfect foundation for our design of a poets study.The conversion is a part of the regeneration proj... More
Project • By KWK Promes Konieczny • Private Houses
Single family house in Biały Bór
The object was to be a gathering place for 8 related families. The key concept was to use a round plan, as a circle had been a symbol of gathering for ages. The initial layout was modified, as a semicircle enabled a better look-out towards the nearby lake. The common zone was hidden in a natural slope of the plot. The night zone was located on the upper level and devided into eight units in order to keep each family’s privacy. The form of the units was to correspond with those of the houses in the neighbourhood. More