{"id":3248,"date":"2009-11-28T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2009-11-28T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T21:26:59","slug":"green-vegetated-roofs-in-the-theory-of-landscape-and-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/green-vegetated-roofs-in-the-theory-of-landscape-and-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Green vegetated roofs in the theory of landscape and architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_63\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63\" title=\"3616158204_efcc24c28f_b\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalstudio.gre.ac.uk\/stockwellstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/3616158204_efcc24c28f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Ecological space + a little social space: Green roof on California Academy of Sciences\" width=\"775\" height=\"401\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-63\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecological space + (a little) Social Space (Green roof on  California Academy of Sciences)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Germany, vegetated green roofs are often classified as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>intensive <\/strong>(ie treated as a garden, typically\u00a0with exotic plants, irrigation,  turf and social use)<\/li>\n<li><strong>extensive <\/strong>(ie treated as habitat, without irrigation or  maintenance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I prefer to look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden_products\/sustainable_design\/green_roof_design\">green roofs <\/a>from a more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/landscape_theory\/vitruvius\">Vitruvian <\/a>standpoint and consider  their roles as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>visual space<\/strong> [Delight]<\/li>\n<li><strong>ecological space<\/strong> [Firmness]<\/li>\n<li><strong>social space <\/strong> [Commodity]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/clickykbd\/3616158204\/\">clickykbd<\/a>.\u00a0  The California Academy of Sciences designed by Renzo Piano and &#8216;The Living Roof\u00b4s 1.7 million native  plants were specially chosen to flourish in Golden Gate Park\u00b4s climate.&#8217;\u00a0 There  is a small terrace for viewers but the predominant role of the green roof is Ecological Space.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64\" title=\"s2813955171_6941fafe0e_b\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalstudio.gre.ac.uk\/stockwellstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/s2813955171_6941fafe0e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Visual space+ social space: Singapore School of Art Media and Design\" width=\"775\" height=\"260\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-64\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visual space+ Social Space (Singapore School of Art Media  and Design)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8221; This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic,  vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and  symbolizes the creativity it houses.&#8221;\u00a0 The\u00a0 green roof is open to the public and, like the roof of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/parliament-house-canberra-green-roof\/\">Australia&#8217;s Parliament Building in Canberra<\/a>, is surfaced with mown grass.  Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teddy-rised\/2813955171\/sizes\/l\/\">teddy-rised<\/a> It is\u00a0 not ecological space:\u00a0 the grass is irrigated  and\u00a0 mown. The building was designed by CPG Consultants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65\" title=\"u2761106590_8769b2471f_b\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalstudio.gre.ac.uk\/stockwellstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/u2761106590_8769b2471f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Ecological space only: University of Illinois at Springfield\" width=\"775\" height=\"615\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecological Space only (University of Illinois at  Springfield)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Springfield Illinois green roof is ecological space, only. It is not  visual space or social space. Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremywilburn\/2761106590\/\">jeremywillburn<\/a>,<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67\" title=\"a2440496321_6073337a2f_b\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalstudio.gre.ac.uk\/stockwellstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/a2440496321_6073337a2f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Visual space + Social space: Roof on the HQ of the American Society of Landscape Architects\" width=\"775\" height=\"599\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visual space + Social space:Roof ( HQ of the  American Society of Landscape Architects in Washington DC) <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The green roof on the American Society of Landscape Architects is visual  space and social space but not ecological space &#8211; at leasst not as shown in this photograph (the roof has other eco-friendly characteristics).\u00a0 Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/drewbsaunders\/2440496321\/sizes\/l\/\">drewbsaunders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany, vegetated green roofs are often classified as: intensive (ie treated as a garden, typically\u00a0with exotic plants, irrigation, turf and social use) extensive (ie treated as habitat, without irrigation or maintenance) I prefer to look at green roofs from a more Vitruvian standpoint and consider their roles as: visual space [Delight] ecological space [Firmness] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}