Sometime in the last year there was a link to a slide show showing the construction sequence for a residential roof garden in NY. Can't seem to find it using the search. Anyone know the project? As I remember the owner (and architect?) wanted real grass.
And while I have your attention, what is your favorite residential roof garden project? I'm helping a friend plan her roof deck and would like to show some precedents to pique her interest. TIA
We've done and are doing a couple. Limited experience, to be sure. In any case, has anyone else paused at the relative complexity of some of the systems out there?
A lot of them, sure, you provide conditions up to a point and so maybe one need not worry about every detail. But I like to be familiar with anything I spec, and I had quite an education.
The European precents certainly must've begun more simply! How long have green roofs been use in Europe -- 50 or 60 years?
Thanks for everyone's comments so far.
namh, that's the roof I'm looking for, thanks. But there was a slide show of the demo and reconstruction that I can't find.
vado, thanks for the advice, that's why I'm looking for the slide show. I want to show my friend how extensive the work will get if her "shopping list" gets too long. I've been doing this for a while too.
kurt, h.b is right, people have been building sod roofs for centuries. And not only in europe.
All right -- centuries. Yes, I've seen really old sod roofs.
But that won't get you too far on your roof garden planning question. My point is, the prevalent green rood sytems are very likely to be a little more complicated than you'd perhaps expect. Been there.
Or, pile some sod up there in the age-old tradtion.
NYC residential roof garden
Sometime in the last year there was a link to a slide show showing the construction sequence for a residential roof garden in NY. Can't seem to find it using the search. Anyone know the project? As I remember the owner (and architect?) wanted real grass.
And while I have your attention, what is your favorite residential roof garden project? I'm helping a friend plan her roof deck and would like to show some precedents to pique her interest. TIA
This may be a different scope than what you had in mind, but it's definitely one of my favorite projects:
http://www.sawyerberson.com/Landscape/L5/
Article also has links to a few more cool modern roofdecks.
before you get designy you may want to find out if the roof loads are designed to take what you want to do...
Is it this one from NY Magazine?
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We've done and are doing a couple. Limited experience, to be sure. In any case, has anyone else paused at the relative complexity of some of the systems out there?
A lot of them, sure, you provide conditions up to a point and so maybe one need not worry about every detail. But I like to be familiar with anything I spec, and I had quite an education.
The European precents certainly must've begun more simply! How long have green roofs been use in Europe -- 50 or 60 years?
precedents, not precents ^
try centuries
Thanks for everyone's comments so far.
namh, that's the roof I'm looking for, thanks. But there was a slide show of the demo and reconstruction that I can't find.
vado, thanks for the advice, that's why I'm looking for the slide show. I want to show my friend how extensive the work will get if her "shopping list" gets too long. I've been doing this for a while too.
kurt, h.b is right, people have been building sod roofs for centuries. And not only in europe.
All right -- centuries. Yes, I've seen really old sod roofs.
But that won't get you too far on your roof garden planning question. My point is, the prevalent green rood sytems are very likely to be a little more complicated than you'd perhaps expect. Been there.
Or, pile some sod up there in the age-old tradtion.
Okay, I found what I was looking for on Curbed. For anyone interested follow the following links. Thanks for responding.
http://curbed.com/archives/2008/08/14/hot_decks_130_watts_street.php
http://gallery.mac.com/studiokenji#100234&bgcolor=black&view=grid
Much nicer than the NY Mag slideshow
another thing to consider. does she own the roof? if its a multiunit building the roof may actually need to be owned before putting anything up there.
It's a multi-tenant walk-up, but she owns the building.
more links to roof (and fire escape) gardens:
http://www.metafilter.com/73990/Skyhigh-gardens-and-rooftop-oases
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