27 Roof Garden Design Ideas

by Hilya Safa · Published September 17, 2015 · Updated August 7, 2016

Beautiful Modern Roof Garden Design

A garden can be placed in many corners of the house. Starting from the front, the back, or in the middle of the room in the form of the inner court. Even if you want a garden from a height, the roof can be used, or often referred to as a roof garden.

Beautiful Modern Roof Garden Design

The roof gardens, in addition serve to create greening at home, also in minimizing solar heat into the house. This is due to the presence of the park, it will automatically reduce solar heat, thus lowering the temperature inside the building.

In designing the roof garden, there are four things that must be considered:

First, regarding the structure. A structure which is calculated not only dead load, but also live load.

Second, drainage. Ideally, there is one piece of drainage point for every 3 meters, with a pipe diameter of 10 cm. To avoid clogged pipes, add a floor drain on it.

Third, the type of plant. Choose plants that do not have many roots, no leaves, and easy to maintain. Plants that are suitable to be planted on the roof garden is a type of grass and shrubs.

Fourth, accessibility. Create a wide staircase, because in addition to functioning as a circular path, stairs also act as a goods lift as raising crops, natural stone, etc. Minimum stair width is 75 cm with a distance of stairs no more than 20 cm.