Friday, 2 December 2011

Go Green with The Roof Garden

By creating a garden on the roof, high-rise buildings can still have a green open space, because there is space efficiency. Garden on the roof (roof garden) is as an alternative reforestation to improve the quality of the environmental health of a large city.


To help prevent or reduce the pace of global warming, adding to the green open spaces to create a garden on the roof of houses, buildings, hotels and offices is one effective way. Although the conditions of the urban area of ​​mostly occupied by buildings, the designers (architects, and landscape architects) have to create a green open space to add plants that had taken over when the building was constructed.

Making a garden on the roof (roof garden) is not cheap and need structure and specific roof construction. Even for optimal results, the construction of the roof to the garden was designed from the beginning, before the building was constructed. However, this investment can come back in a few years later, as the cost of electricity for air conditioning is reduced, as well as building economic value added.

In addition to the shade, garden on the roof (roof garden) can also be used to absorb toxic gases. For example, bamboo or palm can absorb formaldehyde gas and gasoline. While the lily plant, in addition to absorbing formaldehyde gas and gasoline, as well as alcohol and acetone absorb the resulting paint and so on. Vines also serves to absorb the gas acetate, ammonia and other gases. Because of this function, the vines have been used to park on the roof (roof garden) in foreign countries like Singapore and Japan.

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