#roof landscape

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Chicago Deck Rooftop Deck - huge transitional rooftop deck idea with a fire pit and a pergola

[bloggingmiles]

Covered - Transitional Deck Inspiration for a huge transitional rooftop deck remodel with a fire pit and a pergola

[duckandpenguin]

Covered - Transitional Deck Inspiration for a huge transitional rooftop deck remodel with a fire pit and a pergola

[reasonsforhope]

"Amsterdam’s roofs have just been converted into a giant sponge that will make the city more climate resilient.

The Dutch have always been famous for their ability to control water, born out of the necessity of their homeland, much of which is below sea level.

Now, their expert water management skills are transforming the city skyline in the capital city of Amsterdam from one of terracotta tile, concrete, and shingles into green grass and brown earth.

It’s part of a new climate-resiliency trend in architecture and civic planning known as the ‘sponge city concept,’ in which a garden of water-loving plants, mosses, and soil absorbs excess rainwater before feeding it into the building for use in flushing toilets or watering plants on the ground.

If heavy rains are predicted, a smart valve system empties the stored rainwater into the municipal storm drains and sewers in advance of the weather, allowing the roof to soak up water and reduce flooding in the city.

In this way, the rooftops of buildings can be wrung out and filled up just like a sponge.

In Amsterdam, 45,000 square meters, or 11 acres of flat metropolitan rooftops have already been fitted with these systems, and the contracting firms behind the technology say they make sense in dry climates like Spain just as much as in wet climates like Amsterdam...

A 4-year project of different firms and organizations called Resilio, the resilient network for smart climate adaptive rooftops, rolled out thousands of square meters of sponge city technology into new buildings. As with many climate technologies, the costs are high upfront but tend to result in savings from several expenditures like water utilities and water damage, over a long-enough time horizon...

All together, Amsterdam’s sponge capacity is over 120,000 gallons.

“We think the concept is applicable to many urban areas around the world,” Kasper Spaan from Waternet, Amsterdam’s public water management organization, told Wired Magazine. “In the south of Europe–Italy and Spain–where there are really drought-stressed areas, there’s new attention for rainwater catchment.”

Indeed the sponge city concept comes into a different shade when installed in drought-prone regions. Waters absorbed by rooftops during heavy rains can be used for municipal purposes to reduce pressure on underground aquifers or rivers, or be sweated out under the Sun’s rays which cools the interior of the building naturally.

Additionally, if solar panels were added on top of the rooftop garden, the evaporation would keep the panels cooler, which has been shown in other projects to improve their energy generation.

“Our philosophy in the end is not that on every roof, everything is possible,” says Spaan, “but that on every roof, something is possible.”

Matt Simon, reporting on the Resilio project for Wired, said succinctly that perhaps science fiction authors have missed the mark when it came to envisioning the city of the future, and that rather than being a glittering metropolis of glass, metal, and marble as smooth as a pannacotta, it will look an awful lot more like an enormous sculpture garden."

-via Good News Network, May 15, 2024

[superstarmarcosantaniello]

Deck Rooftop

Ideas for a massive renovation of a transitional rooftop deck with a fire pit and a pergola

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Transitional Deck - Rooftop Deck - huge transitional rooftop deck idea with a fire pit and a pergola

[allisonragents]

Deck in Chicago Massive idea for a rooftop transitional deck with a fire pit and a pergola

[nithilams]

Chicago Deck Rooftop

[arc-hus]

Clear Water Tea House, Nantou, China - Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten

[huariqueje]

Facade Victorienne - Patrick Pietropoli , 2020.

French , b. 1953 -

Mixed media 72x40 in.

[vintagehomecollection]

A remodeling for a retired couple added 500 sq. ft. to their weekend house. It also turned the home into a place where the owners plan to grow old together.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

[oscar-out-of-a-suitcase]

Shevchenkivsʹkyy Hay, Ukraine

[vox-anglosphere]

The stone cottages of Appletreewick, a charming village in Yorkshire

[thesilicontribesman]

Dalton Crags Nature Reserve: Ancient Propped Rocks, Cairns and Limestone Pavements, nr. Kirby Lonsdale, Cumbria

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[londonedge]

An empty and almost deserted Chrisp Street Market in Poplar