Fortunately, green roofs are a creative and often bizarre constant in residential, commercial and public architecture around the world today. And it is for this reason that we have decided, after the 10 most beautiful green roofs, to show you as many that seem particularly singular and surprising both for their original position and for their use.
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Fortunately, green roofs are a creative and often bizarre constant in residential, commercial and public architecture around the world today. And it is for this reason that we have decided, after the 10 most beautiful green roofs, to show you as many that seem particularly singular and surprising both for their original position and for their use.
1) Give life to bus shelters
Certainly, one of the last places one would expect to find a green roof and on the bus stop shelter: but if you take a look at these photos you will find that it is not that much. Whether they are commissioned or installed in secret, they are still spectacular.
A San Francisco the turf sprouted at the behest of the California Academy of Sciences which made it the testimonial for an advertising campaign.
While what you see with a lot of white fence is the result of a free gardening attack by Guerrilla Gardening.
2) A green roof on the subway
Buses aren't the only means of public transport, so why not make one green roof even in the subway? Apparently soon at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, we will be able to admire the first green roof applied to the entrance to a subway station. Its peculiarity will consist in the fact that it will be sown with Sedum, a succulent plant belonging to the Crassulaceae.
3) The hidden houses by the lake
Seen from a distance it may seem a common hilly landscape, even if dotted with curious white "mouths". But with a closer look, one realizes that the white mouths are nothing more than the entrance to nine houses: the Earth House architect Peter Vetsch. We are in Switzerland and more precisely a Dietikonwhere this complex of green-roofed houses was created on the banks of a private pond. On the roofs, in addition to flowers and ornamental pints, edible species are also grown and modern homes are equipped with all comforts.
4) Greener car
If green roofs can do a lot to keep a home's temperature constant, why shouldn't this principle also work with a car? This is what the Pekingese taxi driver Zhishai must have asked himself, who decided to plant two square meters of grass on the roof of his car. The man assures that the temperature difference is significant.
Other times it can be a good way to decorate, as in the case of this abandoned carcass on the street in Toronto, which a group of Guerrilla Gardeningto reclaim.
And what about the designer's roof garden bus Marco Antonio Castro Cosio in New York that we told you about not recently?
5) Houseboats
Living on the water must be a unique and very interesting experience and it exerts a certain charm on me. But one of the critical issues, in addition to humidity, is that of being far from the mainland, where perhaps we have our beloved garden to take care of and cultivate. But from today we will no longer have any problems as shown by the images of these two houseboats that certainly do not have the green problem.
6) Green sloping
If your land is too small to enjoy green space, don't worry; the artist and architect Mark Merer solved the problem.
Thanks to its prefabricated house, you can realize two dreams, that of the house and that of the garden, with a single swipe. In fact, the structure has a steeply sloping roof where you can build your own lush lawn. Unlike other projects, thanks to the slope of the roof, the garden is easily accessible from the ground level.
7) Let's not forget about Fido
If a doghouse is not placed in the right way it can be too hot or too cold for our beloved Fido. So why not benefit from the mitigating action of a handsome green roof also on the dog house? Some time ago we told you how to go about making one.
8) A green roof also for birds
Many birds in nature live in a house with a green roof, as they nest underground. But for everyone else, you could be the solution: simply by building a birdhouse or feeding trough with a useful and colorful green roof attached.
9) A bizarre pasture
We all know the surprising insulating capacities that a green roof can have; it retains moisture, keeps the home cool and improves air quality as well as providing a habitat for wildlife. But some people have made green roofs and their usefulness extreme by turning them into real pastures for goats. This is what happened at Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant in Door County in Wisconsin.
10) Living green
Why build a green roof on your house when we can put it directly above us? This must have thought the boy portrayed in the photos who, as you can see, chose a suit in the grass complete with a hat, shoes, tie and even a matching car. But maybe green roof hats aren't just for extravagant, alternative-looking guys. In fact, it seems that they are also appreciated in high fashion as evidenced by the images opposite.
I hope to see as many green, creative, colorful and bizarre roofs popping up here soon.
Good growth at all.
Lorenzo DeRitis
Fonte: Webecoist
