Flat Green Roof Detail

Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden.

Flat green roof detail.

Green roofs offer a sustainable and ecologically friendly solution whereby plants and vegetation can live on the deck of the roof. Architectural details photo by tommy hileman. Unlike pitched green roofs flat green roofs can either take the form of extensive consisting of a thin layer of turf or sedum matting or intensive characterised by a greater soil depth that can even accommodate shrubs and trees. While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask.

The plants on a green roof contribute to improving air quality by producing oxygen and absorbing air pollutants dust and co2. Flat roof green roofs. Build a living roof green roof. A green roof is a green space that is created by adding various layers of plants and a growing medium to the top portion of a traditional roofing system.

We have vegetative roof details in pdf dwg autocad and autodesk revit rvt 2d and rfa 3d formats. I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live. And to ensure the appropriate green roof assembly relative to the membrane chosen is provided it is important to understand how they work and how they are installed. Note that it is not like a traditional roof garden in which planting is done in free standing containers as well as planters that are placed on an easy to access roof terrace.

There are many types of waterproofing membrane.