I’m not sure where these green roofed homes are located. I have found information on these type homes in Norway, Iceland and also here in the United States in old towns like Virginia City, Montana.
I like the way these green roofs make the home fit into the surrounding scenery. It blends in so nicely it makes you feel like the building have been there forever.
I wonder what is between the structure and the plants that would stop problems?
Here is one take on green roofs. I know there are many more, but it is a good jumping off place for information.
I love this photo and agree…there is a sense of history growing right out of those homes!
This could be from the open-air museum at Maihaugen, near Lillehammer, Norway. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maihaugen )
Roofs like these are called ‘torvtak’ (literally peat roofs) in Norwegian. There is a waterproof layer of double-overlapping pieces of birch bark under the (slabs of) peat, which is used to hold the birch bark in place, and to protect it from wear & tear.
Terje S. Knutsen
Norway
Iceland is unlikely; not much wood, houses were built with turf blocks.
I can assure you that it is NOT Iceland !!
They have a bare stark landscape … with nothing growing over 6 inches tall. Buildings rise starkly upward out of the landscape. At least, that’s all that I saw when the airplane I was on made an emergency landing there one day.
I did some searching and did find one volcanic heated area that has some forestation … but I assure you that Keflavic is a stark barren area …
It’s norway. I live here : -)
There is a thick black plastic between the roof beams and the soil, though in the old days the got by without it. Gutters are birchbark, whick keeps its curl for years.
Lots of tundra covered roofs in Alaska also (although this image does not appear to be there.)
I know they use a membrane between the tundra and the roof, but I forget what it’s called.
I like the way these green roofs make the home fit into the surrounding scenery. It blends in so nicely it makes you feel like the building have been there forever.
This almost looks like Richard Proenneke’s place in Alaska, check out One Man’s Wilderness
At the first light,I suspect a fairyland in the Alice Dreams travel appear in front of me!
No doubt its a outstanding house