Garden on the roof
History of roof gardens are hidden deep in antiquity. The most famous example of this, of course, are ancient hanging gardens in Babylon. But green roofs are made thousands of years ago and the Nordic countries and in Central Asia from a purely practical reasons – for natural insulation and removal of water. In the past century, especially the development of a roof garden in Europe and America. Today, roof gardens are particularly relevant in the central part of cities in Western Europe, where it is felt a shortage of land for planting and liaison seats up about 80 percent of the central areas. In these cases, the roof garden is a necessity. But the issue has another side. Widely recognized championship in the creation of roof gardens, and especially in the production of new building materials and technologies, in the opinion of experts, at present time Germany. In this country one of the priorities in the design of new buildings is to provide green roofs, including those with a significant slope. In Swiss cities to 25% of flat roofs with vegetation occupy such a prescription works in Japan to develop gardens on all flat roof areas exceeding 100 m2. Again in Germany, for example, quality green roof give full guarantee of the order of 30-40 years. Such a roof will need repair during this period, but its ecological advantages are clear!
The location of the roof garden in modern construction. Covers often called fifth facade. He is an engineering and architectural elements. It is clear that the type, slope and constructive solution depends on its ability to operate. The load on the roofs of modern buildings is high enough. They not infrequently appear vertoletni playgrounds, sports facilities, swimming pools, playgrounds and more. Along with this modern multistory buildings are saturated communications – television and satellite dishes, air shafts, advertising billboards and others. Not so simple to find a place in this environment for a garden. Moreover, structural and architectural solutions and materials used must be combined with such a plastic and constantly changing living material like plants. In this sense, the main difficulty lies in the fact that it is necessary to combine both requirements not only of architects, economists and builders, but also of the plants as living organisms with their physiological and biological needs.
What is the roof garden?
The man who believe that first made a modern roof garden of his truly great buildings, was the Swedish architect Friedrich Hundertsvaser. Since then, the green roof is one of the most attractive destinations in modern construction. Firstly, it is determined by overcrowding and high density liaison in cities, coupled with the deteriorating ecological environment. Secondly – the undisputed aesthetic and psychological effect of the presence of a green spot in seemingly impossible places for this purpose … the merits of the green roof are obvious. Green plants on the roof allow to reduce the temperature of heating (during hot summer days the temperature of the roof coating can reach 80?? C) to improve sound insulation, absorption of dust and other useful things such as additional protection for members of the fauna.
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