I most recently came across the biography of Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708)
He was the inventor of the Mansard, which are rooms filling the roofspace. In modern architecture roofs are flat but in classic cities like vienna you have most houses with a classic roof. Back in the days these spaces were used for the personell, servants and slaves.
Nowadays most of these spaces beneath the roof are just empty and used as a storage, in rare cases. Mostly trash is piling up there and these spaces are of no use at all. So I had the idea of how to use them for the good of the people.
Actually this idea came from looking at old castles in austria which are in a desolate state, without any windows and damadged roofs but a perfectly fine building structure and from the idea the people are greening flat roofs of modern architecture.
Well combine that and instead of going with the classic thing to repair a roof and restore the old useless condition adapt the spaces for small scale gardening. Like a greenhouse on top of every building. You do the same thing like as if your were greening a flat roof but instead you have a roof over it to grow vegetables and herbs for the use of the people living in the house. Leaving the classic structure of the roof but putting glass or plexiglass pannels or even seethrough solar panels into the roof as a perfect weather protection.
This idea is based on free energy. So if you have for instance a H2O generator in the house supported by a couple of solar panels you can grow vegetables all year long. By giving them the perfect climate and supporting their growth with plantlight lamps on the not so sunny days.
Advantages through this:
Protection from Insects - no use of pesticides
Protection against severe weather conditions
Protection against sour rain or chemicals in the air.
More oxygen production in city area
No use of transportation of fresh goods.
No cooling methods necessary in the transportation cycle.
Ability to apply demeter based agricuture above your living spaces.
You see what you eat and can care for it yourself
Protection of the crop in case of flooding.
Protection against fire, since flames are transfered from burning roof to the next. (try to burn wet soil)
With the right vegtables grown the house can be supported to full selfsufficience.
He was the inventor of the Mansard, which are rooms filling the roofspace. In modern architecture roofs are flat but in classic cities like vienna you have most houses with a classic roof. Back in the days these spaces were used for the personell, servants and slaves.
Nowadays most of these spaces beneath the roof are just empty and used as a storage, in rare cases. Mostly trash is piling up there and these spaces are of no use at all. So I had the idea of how to use them for the good of the people.
Actually this idea came from looking at old castles in austria which are in a desolate state, without any windows and damadged roofs but a perfectly fine building structure and from the idea the people are greening flat roofs of modern architecture.
Well combine that and instead of going with the classic thing to repair a roof and restore the old useless condition adapt the spaces for small scale gardening. Like a greenhouse on top of every building. You do the same thing like as if your were greening a flat roof but instead you have a roof over it to grow vegetables and herbs for the use of the people living in the house. Leaving the classic structure of the roof but putting glass or plexiglass pannels or even seethrough solar panels into the roof as a perfect weather protection.
This idea is based on free energy. So if you have for instance a H2O generator in the house supported by a couple of solar panels you can grow vegetables all year long. By giving them the perfect climate and supporting their growth with plantlight lamps on the not so sunny days.
Advantages through this:
Protection from Insects - no use of pesticides
Protection against severe weather conditions
Protection against sour rain or chemicals in the air.
More oxygen production in city area
No use of transportation of fresh goods.
No cooling methods necessary in the transportation cycle.
Ability to apply demeter based agricuture above your living spaces.
You see what you eat and can care for it yourself
Protection of the crop in case of flooding.
Protection against fire, since flames are transfered from burning roof to the next. (try to burn wet soil)
With the right vegtables grown the house can be supported to full selfsufficience.
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