Extensive Garden Roof

If you want your roof to function as a garden and have large plants and even water features then the intensive green roof is for you.

Extensive garden roof.

These gardens are suitable for storehouses garages roofs or other additional buildings around the house. However the gardendrain component has a taller profile and is. Intensive the landscape possibilities with an intensive garden roof assembly are virtually limitless. An extensive garden roof assembly can be applied to flat roofs and sloping roofs with a pitch of up to 12 12 or 45 provided the appropriate measures are taken to cope with the shear forces and soil retention.

Another term for these green roofs is rooftop garden. A semi intensive green roof can give rise to a richer ecology with more diverse plant and animal species. Typically these roofs will have more soil and some small shrubs as well as the low growing wildflowers and sedums found on an extensive roof. To install extensive vegetative roof covers on pitches steeper than 2 5 12 12 degrees supplemental measures will be required to prevent sliding instability.

With this type of roof planting mediums are much deeper which can be between seven and 24 inches and can consist of lawn shrubs trees and perennials for example. Intensive systems allow the designer to create a park like setting so they are the best option for roof gardens that will be occupied. A roof garden or green roof is a flat or pitched roof surface that is planted using a growing medium over a waterproof membrane. 1 intensive green roof.

Pitched roof systems sometimes merge into vertical facade vegetative techniques. Extensive roofs are typically lightweight and can be installed over a variety of structures including metal roof decks. Fytogreen have a proven track record in the industry we have installed over. An intensive assembly follows the same design concept as an extensive assembly.

This type of roof garden requires minimum layer of soil substrate and hence it is easy to maintain. Intended for recreational sporting and leisure purposes they are often indistinguishable from at grade landscapes. This deeper soil allows intensive roofs to accommodate large plants and dramatic plant groupings. Varied building systems have been developed to support vegetative covers on steeply pitched roofs.

At the same time it has less aesthetical value as the types of vegetation that grow on this is very limited. Not only does a flourishing roof garden enhance the overall aesthetic green roofs also improve a building s environmental performance thermal insulation and climate responsiveness. It also allows for a formal garden to be installed with paths grass lawn and flowers or pot plants. Intensive green roofs weigh from 35 pounds to beyond 100 pounds per square foot when dry it is all a matter of the soil depth which is affected by the amount of mounding that is used.