Green roofs beautify the fifth facade of the building
What you will see when you look up
The sky, the treetops or the buildings?
When you look up, do you know
On top of this roof, green is growing quietly!
As urbanization accelerates, there are fewer and fewer greenable areas in high-density cities, and green campuses, as an important part of cities, play an important role in advancing the sustainable development of urban ecology, among other things.
So, what are the highlights of these anticipated school project projects?
First, it is reflected in the safety, fully considering the load-bearing, waterproof, drainage and other safety needs of the roof, so that the landscape of the roof garden is established on the basis of maintaining the normal use of the building roof. Secondly, it is reflected in the ecology, from the area and pattern of greening as a whole background, enriching the layers and colors of plants, to meet the functionality of the same time make people have the feeling of returning to nature. It is also embodied in artistry, taking into full consideration people’s multi-dimensional feelings in the design of rooftop garden space, taking into account both function and beauty, reflecting the characteristics of plant scenery, highlighting the community effect of plants and seasonal changes, and achieving harmony and unity between landscape and ecology. The use of green roof planters as well as drainage boards can make the project more convenient, and make the greening orderly in the pattern, fully satisfying the points mentioned earlier. Finally, reflected in the low maintenance, under the premise of enriching plant species, try to choose drought-resistant, cold-resistant and easy to manage plant species to reduce the cost of late maintenance. So that the plants can still meet the normal growth demand and show the beautiful natural form under the low maintenance condition.
In today’s high-density cities where greening is increasingly developed in three dimensions, green roofs provide a possible way to renew the greening of existing buildings on campuses. At the same time, as a form of three-dimensional greening that does not occupy ground land, rooftop greening effectively increases urban greening coverage and improves the ecological environment of the city. At the same time, it can play an ecological role in retaining rainwater, mitigating solar radiation, alleviating the local heat island effect of the city and reducing energy consumption. Together with the use of green roof planters, some water can be retained for supplying plants. In addition, green roofs can also beautify the fifth facade of buildings and provide people with space for leisure and communication and to look up to the heights to relieve stress and anxiety, etc.
