A New Approach to a Green Roof: Artifical Rooftop Lake
Austrian art collective Gelitin has created an installation titled “Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted With Without Title”. You can row around this four feet deep artificial rooftop lake in boats made from from reclaimed timber and junk-store furniture with oars assembled from old chair legs.
I can’t wait to see measurements from the heat island to see if temperatures around the building are well regulated. Cool idea. Gives the structural engineers some work.
Interesting idea…. must be heavy. I don’t like the idea of water seepage and leaking.
Austrian art collective Gelitin has created an installation titled Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted With Without Title . You can row around this four feet deep artificial rooftop lake in boats made from from reclaimed timber and junk-store furniture with oars assembled from old chair legs.
Not a bad idea. Would be very heavy, though. And it would probably use a lot of water, depending on the local climate. For my own roof, I’d prefer to add a solar hot water heater and enough PV to power by house first, before I start with a rooftop lake.
If it does end up being able to regulate temperatures in surrounding buildings, all the better. But global temperatures would be better served by reflective white roofs than by rooftop lakes, especially as polar ice melts and darker-colored oceans accelerate warming.