A Bit About Green Roofs

There are quite a number of excellent resources pertaining to all things green in roofs. Green roof technology has bee around for a whille but it seems to be one or those eco-items that is growing in popularity. (Pardon the pun there!)

To get to some straight facts of the matter I found this helpful chart for the CMHC resource
"Design Guidelines for Green Roofs" by Steven Peck and Monica Kuhn, B.E.S., B. Arch,O.A.A. The PDF also includes a few well documented case studies.



For more info there are plenty of resources out there.
Greenroofs.com (The green roof industry resource panel...)

An interesting article here also

Choosing plants;
Green roof plants.com
Green garage.net

Home Grown

The Wall Street Journal had a great article.....

Ryue Nishiziwa’s House

This project by architect Ryue Nishiziwa is a Vertical Garden House located in Tokyo.

I love the idea but I am not sure how comfortable I would be with being so "on display" for all to see. Especially in city as crowded as Tokyo. Kind of a fish-bowl effect. Also, not sure how they build things in Japan but there does not seem to be much in the way of building systems but maybe they are cleverly tucked away somehow?



Never-the-less, an interesting approach to introducing the outdoors to the modern "house". Found here at Inhabitat.

A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms

This is another absolutely amazing use of a very small space. 333 square feet!!!

3Form - What Can I Say?

3Form almost needs no introduction. Their innovative products continue to evolve. They even have Ecoresin which is a 40% post consumer recycled product. The application possibilities are very impressive as you can see from the website.

once upon a rainbow there was this really BIG project to do...