A total thickness of about 15 cm is enough to make the sod survive a dry summer.
Summer house with grass roof.
Stay cool while letting the sun pour in during summer whilst staying cosy enjoying the frosty aesthetics of winter.
For hundreds of years houses in norway have been covered with turf.
It gives a great shelter to relax and enjoy your garden on a sunny or a rainy day.
This approach gives you a small area for recreation and privacy if you so choose.
If you live on the top floor of an urban oasis or have a home with a flat roof you can easily have a qualified contractor install artificial turf over regular roofing materials.
And they come in different varieties.
View from the summer house green roof.
Others are golden and look like they re growing wheat or oats.
The benefits of installing artificial turf on your roof include.
Can help to reduce co2 in the atmosphere a haven for wildlife suitable for sun or partial shade improved temperature regulation and thermal insulation cool in summer warm in winter thus reducing the power required for heating an air conditioning designed to outlast traditional roofing materials.
Grass roots would eventually permeate the bottom layer to create one solid structure.
It replaces the ecology the new house sits upon thereby replacing the habitat that a house takes away.
The ox eye daisies are just about to turn though the wild herbs basil and majoram are sending out a full aroma for pollinators.
There s a traditional colonial look to this corner summer house.
Some are bright green and almost velvety.
Heavy in seed it probably only got their via john s boots during installation or is mild pampering visits.
A number of turf roofs have flowers mixed in with the grass and a few have small trees.
Grass vetchling has somehow made it to the roof.
The grass house was a typical structure used as a shelter or house style that was built by tribes of the california cultural group who made them their homes.
A green roof is in ecological terms a great and simple thing to do.
The dome shaped grass houses were built with a willow framework covered with woven mats made of tule southern bulrush cattail or giant wild rye that were secured with cordage.
Benefits of a green roof.
The grass of the second layer faced upwards to establish a solid surface.
Wildflowers on a summer house green roof.
Used over a whole roof a green roof will be the single overriding design influence on the house as well as impacting on the construction right down to the foundations.
A grass roof and garden walls makes this original summer house an integral part of the garden.
The abundance of windows allows you to experience all the seasons in the comfort of your summer house.