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IaaC Student Elena Mitrofanova, working alongside biochemist Paolo Bombelli has created a proposal for a facade system that utilizes the natural... 
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What’s the coolest place in Los Angeles? It may be right over your head. Starting in 2014, thanks to an update of the Municipal Building Code, all new or refurbished buildings will be equipped with “cool roofs.” A cool roof is built of reflective rather than absorptive material. Compared to traditional roofs, cool roofs can be as much as 50 degrees cooler on the roof surface, and can lower interior building temperatures by several degrees. Los Angeles is the first major American city to pass a cool-roof ordinance... Via Lauren Moss
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We can even go this one better with green roof designs. But light is preferable to dark when it comes to surfaces in our hot climate (this is why adobes were white washed). Our most energy-intensive season is the the hottest period at end of summer/early fall months, with most of that energy going into air conditioning to cool heated buildings.
Norm Miller's curator insight,
January 8, 2014 1:48 PM
Great to see LA becoming a leader in requiring cool roofs that cost no more. |
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Being a horticulturalist I am passionate about the way plants grow. This is further fuelled by my role in greening urban infrastructure. There are many species suitable for growing on buildings and this can be seen by the proliferation of green roofs and vertical gardens around the world. My favourite pastime is exploring the rich habitat I live in, on the northern edge of Sydney, Australia.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Some nice examples here about green roofs (and landscaping more generally) in arid settings.
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Robotic tractors will create patterns across a field of crops on the roof of this pavilion that Carlo Ratti has designed for the World Expo 2015 in Milan.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Well, this certainly is a green roof, but perhaps we are taking this a bit too far.
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