| The Use Of Construction Elements İn Roof And Terrace Gardens And The New Dimensions
As a result of the development in cities, this areas are being more attractive and their population are continuously increasing everyday. Excessive using of this structures in urban areas increases the hard surfaces, air pollution and components which are harmful to the human health. After the result of urbanization comes to this point, people who lives in cities, felt the need of designing easily accessible places that they can really breathe and feel themselves in the nature.
Especially, in the countries which have rapid growth in their cities (for ex. USA), roof gardens is a widely sophisticated and important concept. But in our country, because of the few examples and small amount of studies about roof gardens, this topic is selected for master degree thesis.
The design of the roof gardens is very complicated when they are compared with the gardens which are on the ground level. This gardens have some specific problems which are not found in the ground level gardens. These are; building’s load limitations, dreinage of water, transportation of the growing medium to the roof and plant material selection.
Because of the complicated design of roof gardens, engineers and researchers tried to invent some new materials to solve the possible problems which can be occur in roof gardens. With the development of technolgy, construction elements become lighter, more stable and flexible.
In this study, traditional materials that are used in roof gardens, instruction types and details of these materials will be explained. In addition to these comparison, some examples from domestic and foreign roof gardens will be introduced and contribution of these materials to provide a healthy design will be stated. Also, new dimensions in these areas, situation of the roof gardens and developments in construction materials will be analyzed in this topic.
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