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Visit to the experimental green roof of the Pompeu Fabra University, in the Ciutadella Campus
Last Friday 11.30.2018 the students of the Master of Architecture and Sustainability visited the experimental green roof in the Campus of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, accompanied by Lidia Calvo, industrial engineer, and Gina Calvo, graphic designer and gardener, both part of the Eixverd team responsible for the development and investigation of this roof.
During the visit, it was possible to observe different configurations of green roo
fs, composed by different materials and types of vegetation. The objective is to measure energy efficiency and the response to weather, of each type of green roof.
Different solutions of price, water requirements, energy efficiency, water retention capacity and the capacity to filtering atmospheric contaminating materials, were compared.
They also have experiments of agricultural roof with different substratum commonly used in traditional orchard, testing the drainage, their weight, the stability of the plant and their productivity, to be later considered as a possibility for urban orchards.
We arrived to some of this conclusions, about green roofs:
- They help to decrease the urban heat island effect.
- There is a reduction of carbon emissions, thanks to using these roofs.
- They are beneficial to the Urban biodiversity.
- They provide thermal and acoustic insulation.
- They assist in the absorption of contaminating particles.
- They promote Urban agriculture in the big cities.
- They provide a longer life to the roof.
Experiments allow to study and investigate about different types and possibilities to make more effective sustainable designs.