Green Roofs - Low, High, and No Maintenance
LOW MAINTENANCE: I know I let you know just how tricky a green roof can be a few weeks ago when I posted about the ALSA’s new green roof project. Thus, I was excited to see these low maintenance Green Roof Blocks on Apartment Therapy therapy the other day. They are a quick and clean way to add a little life to a roof:
HIGH MAINTENANCE: Here is a much more complicated award-winning green roof project by Skip Burck and Associates. The project is the Harvard Graduate Student Housing at 29 Garden Street. The green roof is atop a parking garage structure.
NO MAINTENANCE*: If you roof issues that won’t allow so much as the green roof blocks, take some inspiration from one of my favorite gardens of all time, Martha Schwartz’s Splice Garden. No budget, no ability to hold weight, no water, an inhospitable climate, no maintenance? No Problem - Schwartz made a plastic fantastic half Japanese Zen, half French Renaissance garden. Appropriately, the client was a microbiology lab.
*By the way, the only kind of no maintenance designed landscape is the plastic kind.
photos from greenroofblocks.com, richardburck.com, and marthaschwartz.com
July 10th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Thanks Becky,
We are also very proud of our new Green Paks modules. They are making it easier and more affordable than ever to create your own green roof. Each 20 inch x 30 inch Pak cost only $20. Complete with our special engineered soil, simply position them on the roof, cut openings through the fabric, and insert the sedums of your choice. It doesn’t get any simpler than this. (www.greenpaks.com)
July 19th, 2007 at 10:51 am
HI Kelly! Thanks for the info. It sounds like such an exciting innovation!
Becky