Roof Garden

Roof Garden

Once I have known that the site of my project was located inside the Wollaton park in Nottingham. I started to research on site context and found out that the whole area of this location are surrounded by by green area. Therefore, I was thinking how to preserved the surrounding green area by not to put a strange architecture in the middle of green space. Roof garden architecture is the most interesting choice to be used for my design project.

Designing green space inside the larger green, concerning about surrounding nature and transforming the architecture to become part of nature, these ideas are the main direction for designing my columbarium or memorial space inside the heart of Wollaton park. My design is needed to avoid to change the nature context and keeping the scenery of green area. Garden on the roof top of architecture is to create the green space to architecture to reduce the solidity of concrete architecture or making the soft contrast to surrounding context.

These are some interesting case studies for Green roof architecture to be studied on:    

Brooklyn Botanic garden visitor center

“Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an extraordinary oasis in the city and a living museum with a collection in constant flux,” stated Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, principals at Weiss/Manfredi. “We envisioned the Visitor Center as a living interface that creates an invitation from the city into the Garden—a demonstration of the compelling reciprocity between architecture and landscape. Just as the Garden inspires wandering, we designed the center so that it is never seen in its entirety but is experienced cinematically as an unfolding place of discovery.”









This building has been designed to be a part of botanic garden, planting over the top will be changed through out the year following the season change. 

VanDusen Botanical Garden visitor center 

"Perkins+Will‘s VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre in Vancouver, BC is designed to meet the Living Building Challenge, the most rigorous set of requirements of sustainability.  Formally and functionally, it encompasses the goals of environmentally and socially conscious design.  The building is an undulating landscape of interior and exterior spaces rising from ground to roof level and providing a vast surface area on which vegetation could grow, thus reoccupying the land on which the building sits with the landscape.  The building also features numerous passive and active systems that reuse the site’s renewable resources and the building’s own waste"








After I was looking at these project I was also thinking of how to push the visitor to become part of the architecture. In these 2 case studies, the visitor are not allowed to walk over the roof, but it would be interesting if the visitors were able to walk and observing the surrounding environment from the top view.