Benefits Roof Garden

Side Green - Benefits Roof Garden - Garden not only be made on the home page. Garden can also be made on the roof of the house. Gardens were made in the roof of a building, for example roofs, called Roof Garden.

The development of a dense urban areas with limited space and increasing the awareness of the environment healthy and green, roof garden became one of the best options.

The roof garden, as well as decorative building, also has many benefits, among which are:

1. The availability of plants that can be in food (vegetables, fruits), also called the rooftop farming.
2. As the temperature control (roof garden serves as insolation and absorbing solar radiation so as to lower the ambient temperature which ultimately lowers energy consumption)
3. Hydrological benefits (roof garden restrict rainwater is wasted, because accommodated in soil / growing media and plants growing on the roof of the building), but it can serve as a speed controller and the amount of water flow across the roof).
4. Architectural beauty
5. Recreation
6. In fact it can also be as a wildlife habitat.

Installation of roof garden need to be designed from the outset with both, especially the strength of the roof structure for the plant, growing media, teretensi water will result in a load on the roof. Nevertheless, the installation can also be done on the building is finished by taking into account the strength of the roof and choice of plant species. Roof of the house could use a lawn, in large buildings can be planted plants large (trees).

Method for making a roof garden can vary, for example using cast technique with tilted floors reinforced with good waterproofing system. Or may gathering using a new method that uses material from the plastic into the water flow regulator and retaining growing media.