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Posted by Kris Krieger on February 17, 2008, 2:25 am
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>>>>>http://www.ntu.edu.sg/OFPM/About+Us/Development+Division/adm.htm
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>>>>I think I like it, excpet that they're using what lloks like a mown
>>>>lawn. IMO, it'd be better aesthetically to use native grasses and
>>>>leave it unmown, making it an actual habitat - I don't know whether
>>>>that is practical, tho' (possibility of burrowing critters, harder
>>>>to see potential/developing problems in the roof, other problems?)
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>>>Don't know why but that thing made me think of Pierres twisty house.
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>>I can't recall - and I lost the link(s) =:-(
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>>I likethe idea, tho', of a reinforced roof serving as a "natural
>>space" - first off, IIRC, it hlowers heating/cooling costs, and
>>second, it helps replace, to at least some degree, the ecosystem lost
>>when the area was first turned over to human pursuits. At the very
>>least, it's one more bit of air-purification ;)
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> In a way, it's raised berm, as if you no longer have to find the right
> hillside to earth berm your building - you create your landscape from
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>>((I think I was far too young when I first read about, and saw
>>artist's renditions of, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...))
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> No one really knows how they were.
True, but I was really young when I saw the paintings, so, imaginary
tho' they were, they took root in my own preschool imagination, and never
left ;)
> Contemporary accounts make them
> sound like terraced gardens with pools of water. From at least Roman
> times, there have been incredible irrigation systems - perhaps these
> existed before - most irrigation systems greening Iraq, Iran and
> Afghanistan got destroyed by Mongols and other peoples who wanted a
> steppe for their horses.
What always surprises me, when I see videos of Iraq and th eMiddle East,
is realizing how absolutely beautiful it must have been before it all
started getting blown up.
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>>Another thing I've long liked is the idea used in arid climates of
>>using the roof as a summertime bedroom.
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