Traditional roof gardens which require a reasonable depth of soil to grow large plants or conventional lawns are considered intensive because they are labour intensive requiring irrigation feeding and other maintenance.
Traditional grass roof.
And they are long lasting.
Until the late 19th century it was the most common roof on rural log houses in norway and large parts of the rest of scandinavia.
Turf roofs in norway are a tradition and you will see them everywhere.
The advantages of turf roofs also called sod roofs are many.
They provide good insulation.
Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the vernacular architecture of finland and the scandinavian peninsula.
In the past makers of norwegian log cabins would place moss in between the logs that made up the walls.
You can walk out from the second floor of this house onto the green roof sod roof of the first floor which creates a grass covered patio.
A sod roof or turf roof is a traditional scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards.
This thick sheeting will be the grass roof waterproofing membrane.
These days the grass roofs are built out of tradition and simply because they look nice and fit in with the norwegian countryside.
Roofs in scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory.
The load of approximately 250 kg.
The first step is the covering of the house roof with plastic sheeting.
They are very heavy so they help to stabilize the house.
Intensive roofs are more park like with easy access and may include anything from kitchen herbs to shrubs and small trees.
Traditional black norwegian wooden houses.
There are actually several ways to make your roof unique while also making great use of the space and one of the most popular are grass roofs.
Often called green roofs these designs feature a roof that is completely or partially covered with some sort of vegetation usually grass.