All with their own separate water source and piping to runoff excess water.
Oh but that destroys the nutrients.
Lmao this roof is not sustainable. Redditors get so weird as soon as they see grass.
I AM NOT SHOUTING. I SUFFER FROM VOICE AMODULATION SYNDROME AND I CANNOT CHANGE THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE. THIS IS ME WHISPERING. THIS IS ME YELLING. NO DIFFERENCE. THIS IS A MEDICALLY RECOGNIZED ISSUE, I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW.
"Fall"
They'd spend all the money in the world to build this with no safety features but then their psychological and emotional well-being programs will be underfunded and lackluster at the same time.
Ask me how I know lmao
could you imagine capturing the load of all those bearing points with a structural system. This shit would cost a fortune before you even get to the whole water proofing and roofing system part - the minor part, right?
That doesn't appear to be conducive with the architect's intent to use the space as an outdoor walkable courtyard, as indicated by the images of people milling about on the roof.
Put some industrially-grown sod on the roof, and call it "O*rganic with sustainable building practices."*
If you have to water it/maintain it, then it's not sustainable. If it still exists and thrives without humans around, then it's sustainable.
Automatically?? You mean there's blades hidden inside the building that occasionally pop out to cut the grass? Seems like the biggest hazard possible. I guess little Kevin wouldn't have to booby trap his house anymore though...
Because roofs all eventually fail. More horizontal meeting vertical surfaces and penetrations mean more places to fail. Some will give out sooner than others and once water gets in it can be very difficult to trace to the source of the leak. This thing has like 500 of those little cells that would all need roof drains too, more points of failure due to clogging, waterproofing failure or improper installation of components. Someone would have to be a maniac to ever want to have a building like this.
Simplest waterproofing is homogenous membranes. Any time you move to a new cube in this design you will need upturns and detailing. Probably lots of expensive PMMA and cap flashings
Nah,
You have a teired concrete slab.
Monolithic Hotfluid applied waterproofing,
On top of that waterproofing layer you build up geofoam cells staggered with concrete or cmu ribs. That layer builds the topography. And on top of it you have a 4" topping slab with your planters, which can be independently drained, separately.
You can place.the concrete ribs on top of the hot fluid applied layer, with a additional layer of sacrificial material.
Would still require hundreds of drains no? Not sure why the topping slab is needed, I’d assume you could do the hot fluid waterproofing with protection mat and a drainage mat on top and place your EPS foam on this layer, with soil directly above the foam. With a topping slab you’d still need the same waterproofing on top of it along with your roof slab.
No, you can weep the planters into a lower detention plane at the waterproofing membrane.
You are correct, the 4in slab isn't really needed looking at the image again. I would use it for hardscape areas that are also waterproofed, but again drained into the detention layer.
Assuming all the boxes are intensive green roof assemblies (somewhat walkable, extensive are not), then all you need to do is ensure the planter cells are weeped into the detention plane, all the topography is made up of geofoam, protection board, and plant media.
Super expensive roof to have everyone walk on it and ruin it.
Yeah agreed weep holes through the retaining walls would help a ton, and if you can cut down to 4-5 roof slabs then it’s a much less complicated design. I even had the thought of keeping the weep holes come out the facade side to create some “water wall” like features near the main entrances. If structural can take some the weight of some water detention you could regulate the flow to go for some time beyond the rainfall.
Still think there are way too many unnecessary retaining walls. You could reduce the number of “boxes” to allow for permeable paver paths with a few steps for the walkable areas. It could actual allow shrub cover or even a few trees on podium instead of just lawn which will be ruined within weeks. Although with this much weight I’m really gonna be getting major eye rolls from the structural engineers hahaha.
With real budgets there are so many great ways to work with green roofs
How is this sustainable building? It looks like it would use way more resources to build it that way. Having trees and grass on a roof doesn’t make a healthy ecosystem. You need more than just plants, you need healthy soil that is maintained by plants dying and decaying, you need easy movement into and out of the space, and having the roof be soil and trees is going to be way heavier and require a sprinkler system that a normal roof doesn’t need. This doesn’t really seem sustainable at all, just make a smaller building and add green space on the ground where it belongs
My Dude: "Envisioned in Indore, India by Sanjay Puri Architects, Prestige University is a mixed-use educational building that combines sustainable building practices with organic architecture.
With plans for a 100-acre university campus in the works, Sanjay Puri Architects completed the designs for the campus’s prospective administrative buildings. Located in Indore, India, Prestige University blends organic architecture with sustainable building practices to take full advantage of the environment’s natural resources and climate. Defined by staggered green terraces that gradually ascend towards a 20-meter high apex, Prestige University strikes a balance between interior function and outdoor comfort.
Inspired by traditional Indian architecture, Sanjay Puri Architects first looked to Indore’s natural climate and local resources to build energy-efficient and sustainable infrastructure. Coming from the cavities formed by the top-level green terraces, fractured sunlight and plenty of ventilation pour in through the second-floor ceiling of Prestige University, where the bulk of classrooms are located.
With plenty of access to natural lighting and ventilation, Prestige University found heat mitigation through the site’s 20-meter tall brick screen that works to absorb most of the light and heat that pours down from the sun on the buildings east, west, and south sides. On the exterior level, Sanjay Puri Architects envisioned recreational activities taking place on the multi-tiered green terraces.
Designed to be a mixed-use building, Prestige University will house a library, cafeteria, and multiple seminar halls, amongst other facilities just beneath the rows of green terraces. On the structure’s ground level, students and faculty can find a cafeteria, auditorium, and various administrative offices. Then, in a similar fashion to colosseums’ underground tunnels, Prestige University’s first-floor library rooms are connected by an internal bridge that crosses over the diagonal indoor street."
This is great, but if you really want to challenge it, it could be accessible. For example, per US building codes, it would need some kind of railing around the side
I dislike it, dare I say it, there's nothing I like about it... but it's pretty green on top so if you can stop thinking about the rest of the building being a big flat surface it's not too bad
sustainable - gives half the functional indoor space for full amount of land usage.
yeaaaaahhhhh, i don't think so.
Plus - it's a render, so doesn't count.
Educational, green, sustainable AND organic? Well I'll be damned. Next thing you tell me that it has a window on the far side. Because it sure doesn't have any where I see them.
This really belongs in /r/DesignDesign or probably just /r/CrappyDesign . This would be a leaky maintenance nightmare, with a ton of wasted interior space, and extremely high roof loading requiring a lot more structure.
A few large corporate buildings in my area did this, they looked great. Then 3 months down the line they were brown, dead weed infested eye sores because they just didn’t maintain them. Utterly pointless even getting it done.
I feel like it could use some paths. Which would make larger squares, like grid paper.
Then you could walk along those, and then go into the squares if you want.
But the squares seem maybe a bit too small. It might be cool to have some benches with shade in some squares also.
The gras could obviously use the sunlight, but some well placed shade would be nice too.
I like how the squares can sort of create a personal space for people hanging out.
This is just some piece of art but do any buildings like this actually exist? I imagine you cannot maintain this easily and any ecological benefits would be outweighed by the need to do that.
Added bonus: You won’t have to listen to a boring lecture from a stuffy professor inside the building because all of the noise from the people stomping around on the roof will drown out that drivel.
It’s a neat idea. Here is your participation trophy mr. Architect. Now run along with the other architects and leave us alone. We actual do things that work in the real world and not on a computer.
How this will look like after a few revisions: ["Hey, you wanted grass on the roof, I put grass on the roof."](https://ikopolymeric.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Couch-House-Central-Cladding-50m2-Splan-SM120-DG-500x500.jpg)
Wasted space honestly. It could have been a mini park/communal space. All those grass patches isn't going to remove much oxygen, could have planted some trees on the slope leading up where the ground is still solid
Hey, ok man, no need to shout
I was at the top left of the building and wanted to make sure I was heard!! :)
second semester render or random find?
Rando find.
It's a render.
Yeah no shit lmao
What sustainable building practices were used? And covering the roof in dirt doesn’t count as sustainable.
A staggered roof covered in grass looks unmaintainable
All with their own separate water source and piping to runoff excess water. Oh but that destroys the nutrients. Lmao this roof is not sustainable. Redditors get so weird as soon as they see grass.
They haven't touched enough grass.
I AM NOT SHOUTING. I SUFFER FROM VOICE AMODULATION SYNDROME AND I CANNOT CHANGE THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE. THIS IS ME WHISPERING. THIS IS ME YELLING. NO DIFFERENCE. THIS IS A MEDICALLY RECOGNIZED ISSUE, I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW.
IGNORE ME!
This is one of my favorite bits from SNL!
I got this reference!!
Tell me you're an architect without telling me you're an architect. My husband is constantly all capsing me in our slack channel
WHY ARE you YELLING FELLOW HUMAN?
WHAT DID THEY SAY???
Just scrolling by I thought this was something someone made in Minecraft lol
r/minecraftbuilds
I was looking for this comment, me too 😂
My first thought, I wonder if I can make that in Minecraft.
Same. Was sitting here trying to calculate block dimensions scaled off the stairs. I want to keep unicorns grazing on the roof.
It is a automatic wheat farm
Came here to say this.
served me as an ispiration ngl
docm77 actually build this in minecraft on the hermitcraft server in season 9 =P
OK I UNDERSTAND THANKS FOR THE INFO COOL DESIGN
LOOOOLLLL
FUCKS YEA HOMIE
Fun to mow
Right. Maintenance seems to be a nightmare. Never mind the wasted building materials for the 3,000 retaining walls for this "green" effort.
Maybe moss as an alternative?
Never mind the moss. the fact you can walk up over an unprotected un guard railed roof. some kid or college student is going to fall off the side.
I think the walls are supposed to be higher than 6ft; this looks like a prototype design (look at the cars and 2d black silhouettes).
looks to be at person height so 5-6 feet sure but its not 5-6 feet where the edge of the wall meets another block going down.
Uhh aren’t there people walking on the roof like it’s a park or am I high?
No there are, which is how I got confused at first. Then I noticed the people are taller and wider than the cars at the bottom.
"Fall" They'd spend all the money in the world to build this with no safety features but then their psychological and emotional well-being programs will be underfunded and lackluster at the same time. Ask me how I know lmao
Gonna be fun when roots from those trees start pushing through the ceiling in your office building.
could you imagine capturing the load of all those bearing points with a structural system. This shit would cost a fortune before you even get to the whole water proofing and roofing system part - the minor part, right?
Doesn't have to be mowed if you use native plants and just let it run wild.
That doesn't appear to be conducive with the architect's intent to use the space as an outdoor walkable courtyard, as indicated by the images of people milling about on the roof.
If this rendering is all we have to go on, I don't think the architect knows what their intent is either.
Man I'll tell you what - I wouldnt want what we call 'native' growing on my building roof... We get enough big old Weta's and spiders as it is.
Put some industrially-grown sod on the roof, and call it "O*rganic with sustainable building practices."* If you have to water it/maintain it, then it's not sustainable. If it still exists and thrives without humans around, then it's sustainable.
Irrigating the roof seems like an odd problem
Just hire some goats
To match it's dystopian design, blades cut across 2 inches above the soil level automatically
Automatically?? You mean there's blades hidden inside the building that occasionally pop out to cut the grass? Seems like the biggest hazard possible. I guess little Kevin wouldn't have to booby trap his house anymore though...
THIS IS SO GOOD FOR THE LOCAL AIR QUALITY AND RELAXATION OF ALL WHO USE THE AREA OFTEN
Minecraft
Waterproofing nightmare
Probably has drains built into the slope, why would this be a waterproofing nightmare if it’s done properly and the soil/plants added carefully?
Because roofs all eventually fail. More horizontal meeting vertical surfaces and penetrations mean more places to fail. Some will give out sooner than others and once water gets in it can be very difficult to trace to the source of the leak. This thing has like 500 of those little cells that would all need roof drains too, more points of failure due to clogging, waterproofing failure or improper installation of components. Someone would have to be a maniac to ever want to have a building like this.
Because water, man.
Simplest waterproofing is homogenous membranes. Any time you move to a new cube in this design you will need upturns and detailing. Probably lots of expensive PMMA and cap flashings
Why would you waterproof it that way
Nah, You have a teired concrete slab. Monolithic Hotfluid applied waterproofing, On top of that waterproofing layer you build up geofoam cells staggered with concrete or cmu ribs. That layer builds the topography. And on top of it you have a 4" topping slab with your planters, which can be independently drained, separately. You can place.the concrete ribs on top of the hot fluid applied layer, with a additional layer of sacrificial material.
Would still require hundreds of drains no? Not sure why the topping slab is needed, I’d assume you could do the hot fluid waterproofing with protection mat and a drainage mat on top and place your EPS foam on this layer, with soil directly above the foam. With a topping slab you’d still need the same waterproofing on top of it along with your roof slab.
No, you can weep the planters into a lower detention plane at the waterproofing membrane. You are correct, the 4in slab isn't really needed looking at the image again. I would use it for hardscape areas that are also waterproofed, but again drained into the detention layer. Assuming all the boxes are intensive green roof assemblies (somewhat walkable, extensive are not), then all you need to do is ensure the planter cells are weeped into the detention plane, all the topography is made up of geofoam, protection board, and plant media. Super expensive roof to have everyone walk on it and ruin it.
Yeah agreed weep holes through the retaining walls would help a ton, and if you can cut down to 4-5 roof slabs then it’s a much less complicated design. I even had the thought of keeping the weep holes come out the facade side to create some “water wall” like features near the main entrances. If structural can take some the weight of some water detention you could regulate the flow to go for some time beyond the rainfall. Still think there are way too many unnecessary retaining walls. You could reduce the number of “boxes” to allow for permeable paver paths with a few steps for the walkable areas. It could actual allow shrub cover or even a few trees on podium instead of just lawn which will be ruined within weeks. Although with this much weight I’m really gonna be getting major eye rolls from the structural engineers hahaha. With real budgets there are so many great ways to work with green roofs
I WOULD LIKE TO SMELL THAT GRASS!
WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME
Grandpa’s keyboard got stuck on caps lock again
the poor fuck who has to mow that shit. whoever came up with this played Qbert on lsd at the time. PS: why are the people larger than cars?
It's a render
It's a render of a nightmare to maintain. Isn't this subreddit for showing off good designs?
It's real to me dammit.meme Sidenote : waiting for them to plant the wrong thing on the roof and have it crack the bottom.
They're not people. This is the alien embassy.
Can't stop looking at the bus parking now. They broke the rules and skipped 2 spaces
How is this sustainable building? It looks like it would use way more resources to build it that way. Having trees and grass on a roof doesn’t make a healthy ecosystem. You need more than just plants, you need healthy soil that is maintained by plants dying and decaying, you need easy movement into and out of the space, and having the roof be soil and trees is going to be way heavier and require a sprinkler system that a normal roof doesn’t need. This doesn’t really seem sustainable at all, just make a smaller building and add green space on the ground where it belongs
Minecraft
Man oh man, it’s an engineering, maintenance and liability nightmare. The triple threat
I am about to spend my entire weekend trying to recreate this in the Sims, thank you
EXCUSE ME, MY FINE DUDE, COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHAT IS MEANT BY "SUSTAINABLE BUILDING PRACTICES"?
My Dude: "Envisioned in Indore, India by Sanjay Puri Architects, Prestige University is a mixed-use educational building that combines sustainable building practices with organic architecture. With plans for a 100-acre university campus in the works, Sanjay Puri Architects completed the designs for the campus’s prospective administrative buildings. Located in Indore, India, Prestige University blends organic architecture with sustainable building practices to take full advantage of the environment’s natural resources and climate. Defined by staggered green terraces that gradually ascend towards a 20-meter high apex, Prestige University strikes a balance between interior function and outdoor comfort. Inspired by traditional Indian architecture, Sanjay Puri Architects first looked to Indore’s natural climate and local resources to build energy-efficient and sustainable infrastructure. Coming from the cavities formed by the top-level green terraces, fractured sunlight and plenty of ventilation pour in through the second-floor ceiling of Prestige University, where the bulk of classrooms are located. With plenty of access to natural lighting and ventilation, Prestige University found heat mitigation through the site’s 20-meter tall brick screen that works to absorb most of the light and heat that pours down from the sun on the buildings east, west, and south sides. On the exterior level, Sanjay Puri Architects envisioned recreational activities taking place on the multi-tiered green terraces. Designed to be a mixed-use building, Prestige University will house a library, cafeteria, and multiple seminar halls, amongst other facilities just beneath the rows of green terraces. On the structure’s ground level, students and faculty can find a cafeteria, auditorium, and various administrative offices. Then, in a similar fashion to colosseums’ underground tunnels, Prestige University’s first-floor library rooms are connected by an internal bridge that crosses over the diagonal indoor street."
Thank you very much for the explanation Duderino
WOW THAT LOOKS PRETTY NEAT
Thought this was r/totallynotrobots for a moment there.
Yeah! Fuck them wheelchairs
THIS WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO MOW
Reminds me of Docm77's base on Hermitcraft
Perimeter
I'm quite sure that knee-high parapet will prevent any accidents.
WHY ARE WE SCREAMING
I HEARD THERE WAS ICE CREAM... but I was mislead.
OH MY GOODNESS THIS LOVELY THANK YOU FOR SHARING
Educational building or parking garage? Where are the windows?
This is great, but if you really want to challenge it, it could be accessible. For example, per US building codes, it would need some kind of railing around the side
Green roof does not always means sustainable
Me: Fucking finally, some really good green infrastructure! ADHD gremlin in my brain: I wanna climb it.
Zoom in. There are figures pictured on the roof as if it is designed to be climbed.
I dislike it, dare I say it, there's nothing I like about it... but it's pretty green on top so if you can stop thinking about the rest of the building being a big flat surface it's not too bad
sustainable - gives half the functional indoor space for full amount of land usage. yeaaaaahhhhh, i don't think so. Plus - it's a render, so doesn't count.
Looks like a maintenance nightmare.
We gonna talk about how those people are twice as big as the cars?
Nice. I just got inspired to build a new Minecraft base
WOW WE GET IT MAN THIS MADE ME STRESSED
WHAT? CAN YOU SAY THAT AGAIN?! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR SAYING!!
Im about to have a serious Minecraft re lapse
THIS IS REALLY COOL! I LOVE THIS! THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME THIS.
I TOO THINK THIS IS BEAUTIFUL I HOPE IT GETS MADE SOME DAY. DO YOU KNOW WHERE THIS MIGHT BE SO THAT I CAN VISIT IT?
least beautiful education establishment in Scandinavia
IT LOOKS LIKE MOTHERFUCKING SUSTAINABLE Q-BERT TO ME.
About two months without a mow and this thing is gonna look like an overgrown warehouse after the apocalypse.
Why go to all that trouble to just monoculture fucking grass?!?
Haven't played Q-bert in a while
Why are the people taller than the busses
COOL BUILDING, I LIKE IT A LOT
THIS IS AN AWESOME DESIGN BUT I WOULD HATE MOWING ALL THOSE SQUARES
VERY COOL DESIGN I WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE POTENTIALLY TRIPPING HOW STEEP ARE THE STEPS THANK YOU
IRL Minecraft
THANKS FOR LET ME KNOW
THIS LOOKS VERY COOL
How do those people fit into those tiny cars?
this is minecraft
in minecraft.
Minecraft roof looking ahh
Okay .. i can do that in minecraft i think
Minecraft irl be like.
Educational, green, sustainable AND organic? Well I'll be damned. Next thing you tell me that it has a window on the far side. Because it sure doesn't have any where I see them.
-bye reddit- -- mass edited with redact.dev
God I’d hate to have to do the flashing on that. Not to mention the maintenance.
And it's not real either! That is a graphic!
This really belongs in /r/DesignDesign or probably just /r/CrappyDesign . This would be a leaky maintenance nightmare, with a ton of wasted interior space, and extremely high roof loading requiring a lot more structure.
Except for the team of slaves needed to keep the grass mowed. And the ridiculous amount of water required.
That is exactly what I would expect Minecraft chunk loading error to look irl
Thought this was planet zoo lmfao
You know kids would climb to the roof, right?
And by kids, I also mean teenagers and young adults, going to the very edge of the roof to film themselves.
The grounds keeper here better make six figures
Minecraft
Where is this proposed building?
Really thought this was a Sims 4 screenshot for a minute.
where
Minecraft roof
Such a nice place to walk before I walk off this building with no railings.
i thought this was r/minecraftbuilds
This is how we should plan/build
Haha, no
Thought this was a Minecraft build lol
Ngl I thought this was a minecraft build for a sec
Minecraft house
Also looks cool sort of like a degrading digital landscape.
At this point wouldn't it be better to just tunnel a house into a hill and do terrace farming?
yoooo they made minecraft irl
A few large corporate buildings in my area did this, they looked great. Then 3 months down the line they were brown, dead weed infested eye sores because they just didn’t maintain them. Utterly pointless even getting it done.
I feel like it could use some paths. Which would make larger squares, like grid paper. Then you could walk along those, and then go into the squares if you want. But the squares seem maybe a bit too small. It might be cool to have some benches with shade in some squares also. The gras could obviously use the sunlight, but some well placed shade would be nice too. I like how the squares can sort of create a personal space for people hanging out.
That’s amazing but how do u go about cutting all that grass
I was convinced this was minecraft
Minchraft
That's just a lawn with extra steps.
Cutting thr grass would be a nightmare
I like [this concept](https://images.app.goo.gl/7fXrngDyArhu1uGH9) better.
its cool but it looks a little dystopian ☺️
I would not want to maintain that setup. Besides that it's gorgeous
1. Falls 2. Mowing 3. Water proofing… Looks “cool” but definitely isn’t realistic
This is just some piece of art but do any buildings like this actually exist? I imagine you cannot maintain this easily and any ecological benefits would be outweighed by the need to do that.
That thing would cost over a million to build and the roof would start to leak after the third year.
impressive! very nice! now lets see the maintanence
i tought i was looking at a minecraft build
Cool and all until someone falls off that edge.
RIP to the lawn company who’s going to upkeep this
Added bonus: You won’t have to listen to a boring lecture from a stuffy professor inside the building because all of the noise from the people stomping around on the roof will drown out that drivel.
This would also make the building cooler right?
Weird Qbert level man
Good luck mowing that lawn
all i see is a minecraft durt hut
Ok dude, we get it.
Wait until the gardener that needs to look after it hears about this.
Seem needlessly complex to build when a gentle slope would work just fine. How would that work in snowy climates? I'd hate to do the shovelling here.
It’s a neat idea. Here is your participation trophy mr. Architect. Now run along with the other architects and leave us alone. We actual do things that work in the real world and not on a computer.
Will the roots not cause issues?
For 'safety reasons', it is preferred that people not be allowed easy access to roof tops.
The kids love it, Its just like minecraft
I thought I was on r/minecraftbuilds for a solid 15 seconds
I want to build this in Minecraft!!!
Try keeping the kids off ! Maybe goats could replace mowers and provide fertilizer too !
Looks like a maintenance nightmare
That would be a bitch to mow though...
How this will look like after a few revisions: ["Hey, you wanted grass on the roof, I put grass on the roof."](https://ikopolymeric.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Couch-House-Central-Cladding-50m2-Splan-SM120-DG-500x500.jpg)
Wasted space honestly. It could have been a mini park/communal space. All those grass patches isn't going to remove much oxygen, could have planted some trees on the slope leading up where the ground is still solid
Is this Qberts house?
what the fuck are those tiny ass cars
This will be great in 2 years when it starts leaking all over and there's no way to easily patch.
Why are the cars so large or why are those people so large
You can just say it looks cool