Leaving aside in this discussion the ancient history and tales about Babylonian hanging gardens, the present function of the hanging garden will be analyzed from an architectural, urban, and environmentally.
Today, technology provides methods and materials that make the roof garden accessible from an economically and appropriate in almost every situation, giving the possibility of installing them even on terraces which are not designed for the purpose, from architecture point of view.
Roof (and Vertical) gardens have become increasingly popular by many people around the world, especially by those who love greenery but do not have the space necessary for a classic-style garden. At home, on the balcony or terrace, choosing to make a garden is increasingly fashionable, especially since the advantages are very high and, in principle, outweigh any disadvantages.
CHEKAD© is providing the Portable-Modular method to increase intensive roof gardens in the quantity and quality of greenery spaces within cities, without facing old-fashioned setbacks and difficulties of this process. But it designed many facilities and uses various compatible plants, in these cases, live on a substrate constructed pots and frames.
There are two types of roof loadings when a building is being constructed. Dead load and live load to the weight of the roof structure itself and any permanent structures on that roof. Unfortunately, most formerly constructed roofs are not designed to support an “intensive garden” with a massive substrate layer and big plants which increases Dead loads and threatens the structure.
But CHEKAD© has overcome the problem for more than a decade and made the structure against the amount of dead load caused by the roof garden. The best way to create a green space on the roof is to use the Portable-Modular method as a detached live load.
In this method, ready pre-made planters and flower boxes are used to implement the roof garden. According to the type of use, the planters can have a wide green surface or beautiful and tall shrubs. In fact, the difference between this method and the previous masonry method and styles is not only outstanding in terms of beauty, but in terms of structure, constructing speed, safety, diversity, modernity, etc.
The green roof has not only an aesthetic-ornamental function, it is an operation of ecological architecture that brings numerous advantages to the building and the environment. It increases the thermal support of the roof and is an excellent insulation for the floors under it which CHEKAD steel meshing whit no bolting to the roof and also with a considerable economic advantage in terms of savings on energy consumption (up to 25% according to the various researches.)
It has been shown that green roofs can play an important role in reducing pollution, however, proportionate to the biomass present on the roof, partially reduces urban pollution, this feature is not specific to the technology but plants have to break down pollutants and suspended dust.
This is important to know that most cities have their air polluted and contain too much carbon dioxide emitted from buildings, nearby factories or industries and even motor vehicles. CHEKAD© Green roofs can be a great help such urban centers by absorbing the carbon dioxide from the air and release more oxygen in return, creating a healthier and greener urban environment for cities and people.
