Comments on: Green Roof Typologies

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:07:41 +0000

This is an historic record of the roof garden on Feltex House in Sydney. [ http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/fullRecordPicture.jsp?recnoListAttr=recnoList&recno=32739 ]

Six pictures of the garden are in the Historic Houses Trust collection.

By: RobAid

RobAid — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:37:44 +0000

Green roofs are great! They increase the insulation, lower the heat island effect and create habitat or social/relaxing areas.

There have been some bad executions of the idea though (both aesthetically and structurally).

By: Linda Day Harrison

Linda Day Harrison — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:17:04 +0000

If anyone knows the designer or plant supplier or owner or landscape maintenance contractor for these roof garden projects, please suggest they add the projects to the rooftopgarden.com database. We are adding 1 roof garden at a time to create the most extensive inventory of roof gardens or green walls. The database includes many data fields, but even if they just add the roof location, name and whether or not it is public, private or can be accessible for viewing would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Linda
LDay@rooftopgarden.com

http://www.rooftopgarden.com/database

P.S. we have a nice start on our Resource page where plants suppliers, green roof manufactures can list their links as well.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:14:01 +0000

Following from your advice to refer to Christopher Alexander – in ‘The Timeless Way of Building’ he advises “Try to discover some property which is common to all the ones that feel good and missing from the ones which don’t feel good.”

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:04:09 +0000

‘Fifth Facade’ is an attractive term but has the partial implication that the design of the roof should relate to the design of the building. As you suggest, it would be a better thing if it related to the context of the roof, visually, ecologically and socially.