Roof garden with glass slab

[kem_kep]

Hi,
can any one tell me the details of Roof garden with glass slab ...also tell me built example
Regards
Kem

[solidred]

I think you have to make that one up as you go along, Kem. I know of retractable glass roofs and glass floors, but a glass roof garden? Absolutely fascinating proposition. Water and glass is, of course, a beautiful combination but is the rest of the design crisp enough to incorporate the inevitable lichen? Do you want a garden seen from both below and above? If so, you may have to seriously consider artificial lighting positions and the paths the light will take. Soil in planters ain't going to be all that great from below unless you put worms in and could see their burrowing... nature documentary camera-men get some amazing footage of burrowing animals via tricking the thing in glass boxes.
I recall hearing an anecdote about Enrique Miralles viewing a mock-up of a clear double-skin acetate wall and he was told: 'of course, the problem will be organic growth in the cells of this cladding' to which he responded something like: 'oh? Great!!!'
The whole idea, as I said, is fascinating. Can you tell us more?

[sabe]

seen one at roof of main entrance at the Lumiere-Foster built in sydney city...it's not bad...glass roof+water fond above...i saw shallow water above...i guess it's the pond like of thing

[djswan]

Fasinating, I could hold our pet frog's aquarium above my head to catch a visual. Hmmmm, plant roots and frog poo.

[solidred]

I can just see the Maya-modelled frog poo in some hyper-modern design presentation... photoshop in some suitably-scaled figures and dada [trumpet fanfare] ... an arts centre proposal for some competition in some country one has never heard of. Not a bad thing, per se, per scalelessness biomorphic enthusiasm. So erm, DJ, is there a problem here?

[djswan]

Leaky roofs have never been a problem for starchitects.

Our little frog aquarium is not maintainance free that for sure, as my son has become derelict in his duties.

http://howtohydroponics.com/

You can model frog poo in Maya?

[solidred]

I'm sure you could do something respectable with careful use of algorithms

[lekizz]

[djswan]

That a good looking building. Water to ice is much more difficult to deal with. It expands. A ice climbing wall could be a nice feature in that building, and some timbers.

Ice roofs are feasible. What R value is ice? Hockey on the roof.

A pond above your head. Sounds like a cool idea. I'm in.


Glass is a great building material too.

[WalkerARCHITECTS]

OK Kem

I do not think that soil over a glass slab is a good idea. Fish pond or swimming pool seen from below.... hmmm... maybe that could be nice, I have never done those... kind of cliche actually. A glass walkway through the roof top garden could be a nice day-lighting strategy and that has been done. I have a project with Glass stepping stones made of recycled glass, with floating or suspended paver system using the Hydro-tech green roof system, where glass pavers are integrated such that they span across above curbed skylights below, very beautiful, stunning to space below and garden above at night where the under lit paver's glow.