Green Roof, Solutions For Cooling House Temperature

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Green roof can be a solution to make your home feel much cooler. With a green roof, the air is present will be felt cooler because the heat coming of the sun will be absorbed first before slipping into the house. The air is also much fresh since the park on the green roof is able to absorb pollution.

Her Pramtama, architect of the US & P Architects said, there are two ways you can do to green the roof, that is making a green roof with a sloping roof and flat roof. Here are the two concepts for creating a green roof following advantages and disadvantages :

Green Roof Concepts

Sloping roof

The concept of green roof in this way can be done by utilizing the vines. For best results,you can choose the type of vines that do not interfere with tile. However, you should make sure no gaps tiles. If there is, then the plants will go in and instead will cause leakage.

Flat roof

This concept makes the roof as a ”soil above the ground”. The trick can be reached by moving the soil, then give the grass and planted with some trees and plants. The benefit,the temperature of the house will get lower and could make it more functional for use.

From these two methods, Pramtama continued, there is a difference in the cost of implementation. The cost of greening a sloping roof can be more inexpensive because it requires no special structure. Meanwhile, on the flat roof is more expensive because it requires concrete structures. However, on this second principle is precisely you can get the added benefit of a ”space” or a house terrace other than on the floor ground.

Green Roof Applications Around The World

Some examples of green roof applications in the building around the world can be seen below :

1. Waldspirale

Waldspirale is an apartment in Darmstadt, Germany, built in the 1990s. Its name meansfringed spiral, reflecting the plan of the building and also has a garden on the roof. The architect is Heinz M. Springmann, this building was finished in 2000.

2. California Academy of the Sciences

Rana Creek, who built the nursery garden on the roof of the Academy, innovatively make the plants and the soil is not landslides on the slopes. By using tree sap and the husks from coconut, they create absorb pores, green paths that not slides. Each of these has three inch thick with an area of 17 inches square and arranged like a set of ceramic floor. Within weeks the roots of plants make it merge into solid planting land.

3. Green Roof on Fifth Ave

This is a park in a building on Fifth Ave, New York City. It is said that on Spiderman movie scene with his girlfriend taken at this location.

4. Green Roof on 40th Story HDB

5. Singapore School of Art and Design

Building designers of design art school in Singapore has created that green public spaces in locations that are unpredictable.

There is also a swimming-pool, palm trees, small islands, etc. which very attractive in terms of aesthetics and beauty besides of course the freshness of green space.

6. Ghibli Museum di Tokyo, Japan.

7. ACROS Fukoka Building, Jepang

8. Green Roof On 6th floor of St. Luke’s International Hospital in Akashi, Tokyo

9. Green roof on Penthouse in New York

This is one example of the roof of a building owned by rich people in New York.

10. Green Roof of Spa Club

Its location is on the roof of a building in the Embarcadero section spa club in San Francisco.

11. Green Roof on Battery Park City Solaire

The Solaire, a residential block in New York that was built with the concept of the focus on environmentally friendly.

12. City Hall building di Chicago

To save energy and money on air conditioning costs in summer, a green roof was created on top of Chicago’s City Hall building in 2000.

Today thousands of species of plants grow here with more of 150 species of plants and can save on utility bills up to $ 5000 dollars per year.

13. The Australian Parliament Building in Canberra

Recently the Australian parliament building is redesigned with the green roof.

14. Largest Green Roof In The World in Ford Factory

The Ford Motors Rouge Factory, designed by Bill McDonough, is the world’s largest green roof which covers 454 thousand square feet.

It seems anything can be planted on the roof of the building, if you do not believe look at pictures of old buildings in Italy below. But this is a little outrageous. The building itself might be damaged by the plants.