Project general details
WORLD GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AWARD
Sustainable green roof in primary school education
Nominator
Investor
Supplier
Architect
Taiwan Green Roof & Green Wall Association
Ling Jhou Elementary School
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Green Empire Industrial Co.
Location (City)
GPS
Country
Region
Year of nomination
Kaohsiung
data
Taiwan, Province of China
Asia
2024
Project specifications
In order to implement the educational concepts of "World Earth Day" and "Green Energy" on environmental protection, in conjunction with the establishment of the school's green roof, the school integrated concepts such as landscape botanical gardens, energy bases, and happy farms into environmental planning, and extended the campus green space to the roof. In addition, green roofs could become another environment-specific course that integrates the concept of green buildings into learning, allowing students to understand extracurricular knowledge such as low carbon architecture and global environmental issues. Botanical Garden Create an ecological and sustainable green campus: The Botanical Garden have three areas: Taiwan's native species area, exotic plants area and potted plants bank area. Taiwan's native species area and exotic plants area have variety plants for the students to identify different plants and how they adapt these niches. And the potted plants bank area is named as the
Object type
Roof accessibility
Roof slope
Year of completion
Project in operation?
Administrative and civil construction buildings
Public
0-5 degree
2023
YES
Green roof area (m2)
670
Green roof specification
Method of establishment of vegetation
Potted plants grown by workers' hand
Vegetation
Natives: Podocarpus costalis, Antidesma pentandrum, Messerschmidia argentea, Tabernaemontana pandacaqui, Indigofera spicata Forssk., Desmodium caudatum, Murraya paniculata, Spathoglottis plicata, Crinum asiaticum L., Evolvulus alsinoides Linn., Crossostephium chinense, Aster indicus Linn., Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack. Exotic plants: Melaleuca alternifolia, Callistemon viminalis, Callistemon rigidus, Agave americana, Osmoxylon lineare (Merr.) Philipson, Acalypha hispida Burm. f., Alpinia speciosa cv Variegata’, Nicolaia elatior (Jack.) Horan, Scaevola aemula R.Br., Senna bicapsularis, Dianella ensifolia, Tulbaghia violacea Harvey, Evolvulus glomeratus Nees & C. Mart, Tabernaemontana ‘Dwarf’, Phyllanthus myrtifolius Moon, Lantana camara, Ixora x westii J.Huds., Ixora x williamsii Hort. Vegetables: Ipomoea batatas, Gynura bicolor (Roxb. & Willd.) DC., Allium tuberosum, Asystasia gangetica, Amaranthus tricolors, Colocasia esculenta, Ocimum basilicum L., Allium ascalonicum L.
Vegetation layer
Light substrates with the ratio is vegetative pottery stone (3): artificial soil (3): sandy loam (2): humus soil (2)
Retention layer
Heat Insulated water storage and drainage board with heat insulated air layer 4.5 cm and water storage layer 5cm.
Filtration layer
Nonwoven fabric
Drainage layer
Heat Insulated water storage and drainage board with heat insulated air layer 4.5 cm and water storage layer 5cm.
Separate layer
Heat Insulated water storage and drainage board
Protective layer
Waterproof & climate resistant paint
Root layer
Waterproof & climate resistant paint
Category:
GREEN ROOFS
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