{"id":1493,"date":"2009-05-04T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T13:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2009-05-04T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T13:45:33","slug":"green-roof-typologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/green-roof-typologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Roof Typologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre.jpg\"><\/a>Jorn Utzon\u00a0called\u00a0green roofs \u00a0\u2018the fifth fa\u00e7ade\u2019 and there are many ways in which the public can interact with the new \u00a0landscapes evolving on roofs in our cities. Green roofs can be public space,\u00a0private space or\u00a0ecological space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre2.jpg\" alt=\"vancouver_convention_centre2\" width=\"775\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre2.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre2-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fly-over roof <\/strong> (photo courtesy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eyesplash\/2851004124\">Eyesplash Photography<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Convention Centre is a great example of a green roof that is best viewed from on high, to appreciate the relationship between the man made and the natural landscape. The promotional images for this fantastic new building http:\/\/www.vancouverconventioncentre.com\/thefacilities\/image-gallery\/ suggest that Vancouver has understood much of what has been achieved with this building But the full potential of the roofs as integral parts of cites \u00a0has yet to be \u00a0fully realised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre.jpg\" alt=\"vancouver_convention_centre\" width=\"775\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vancouver_convention_centre-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Walk-on roof<\/strong> (photo\u00a0courtesy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/cityofsound\/\">cityofsound<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Synthe Roof garden in Los Angeles is a laser cut roof surface that has been sculpted for landscape opportunities and for foot traffic on the surface. The garden is in the care of a popular restaurant in the building below. From this vantage point a different perspective on the city of Los Angeles is possible, as is the potential for more interesting forms of roofscape use and greening. This roof design suggests that new forms of roof + garden will be discovered through the green roof concept.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorn Utzon\u00a0called\u00a0green roofs \u00a0\u2018the fifth fa\u00e7ade\u2019 and there are many ways in which the public can interact with the new \u00a0landscapes evolving on roofs in our cities. Green roofs can be public space,\u00a0private space or\u00a0ecological space. Fly-over roof (photo courtesy\u00a0Eyesplash Photography) The Vancouver Convention Centre is a great example of a green roof that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}