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The roof garden not only has excellent cooling and heat insulation effects, but also can beautify the environment, purify the air, improve the local microclimate, and also can enrich the elevation landscape of the city. It can compensate the green ground occupied by the building and greatly improve the green coverage of the city. Roofing forms worthy of vigorous promotion.

The roof garden is not a product of the development of modern architecture. It can be traced back to 4000 years ago. The temple tower built by UR, one of the oldest famous cities of the ancient Sumerians, was the birthplace of the roof garden. In the early 1920s,

Roof greening will increase urban green space and improve the deteriorating human

Japan s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism survey results show that

Whether it s the original design of the roof garden or the addition of a roof garden on the roof of a built-up house,

Gardening Technology

The layout of the roof garden should be conducive to the structural layout of the roof. Under the premise of minimizing the roof load, various technical measures should be adopted to meet the ecological requirements of the roof garden plants. This is the main difference between roof garden and ground garden in terms of gardening technology. The main technical points of roof gardening are:

Choose short shrubs and herbaceous plants that are resistant to drought and cold. Because the roof garden has high summer temperature, strong wind, and poor soil moisture retention, it has thermal insulation in winter.

Rooftop garden at Shigeko City Hotel

The design of this roof garden eases the rigidity of this city known for its reinforced concrete, while reducing the summer heat on the roof. At the initiative of Mayor Richard Daly, Brother Chia has become North America's leading "green roof" city.

Empire State Building Roof Garden

The garden embodies the design philosophy of the architectural firm Cook + Fox. Green building experts and designers hope that the spaces they design will reflect the fact that more plants in more places can make cities more livable.

New California Academy of Sciences roof garden

The roof of the new California Academy of Sciences building is a 7-hill roof garden designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and opened in 2008. These styling designs are reminiscent of the characteristic topography of the college's hometown of San Francisco and provide a venue for the installation and use of energy-efficient elements such as skylights and solar panels.

Swiss turf roof

Swiss farmer Matthias Eglin intends to build a new shack for the chicken farm. He replaces the shelter with a meadow on the roof. Like Pro-Germany, Switzerland has established sound regulations to protect green space, and building green turf roofs has become a routine strategy that meets environmental standards.

Roof garden in Stuttgart, Germany

The green roof movement sprouts and develops in Stuttgart, Germany. It originated in 1989. The Stuttgart municipal plan in Germany required the construction of roof gardens on all new flat roof buildings. "All you have to do is climb a tall building in Germany, where you will be able to see the green roofs everywhere," said Stephen Watpeker, founder of the Canadian Industry Association Healthy City Green Roof.