With roof gardens/living roofs/green roofs in their relative infancy here in New Zealand it helps to look abroad for direction in their uptake. Two years ago Toronto passed a by-law to make it mandatory for all new building constructions to have a certain percentage of green roof. Starting with residential and now moving onto industrial [...]
With consideration to the rebuild of Christchurch and public support for ‘elevating the garden city’ to the rooftops, I thought this study quite poignant. “Research into tuned liquid dampers revealed potential for the green roof to act in a similar fashion due to the drainage layer being able to store free water which would flow in [...]
Thanks to my friend Sean for emailing this link. This is an incredible home on the waters edge somewhere in Singapore. It’s also a fantastic example of what you can do with sloped roofs. Habitat Roofs has access to the technology and materials in order to build a green roof upto 45%. There is a [...]