Comments on: Home is White Cube With Grass Roof

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:15:20 +0000

OMG! this house is so cool. I used this in a house a designed for an assignmnet. Worked really well!

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:33:51 +0000

Now there’s a really practical idea! Veggie garden and annual goat festival.

By: babs60645

babs60645 — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:46:14 +0000

I’d go with a vegetable garden, weight restrictions permitting, or a wildflower/butterfly/hummingbird garden to minimize maintenance. In any case, a few bee hives on the roof would work if the neighboring flora could support them.
A grass lawn on the roof demands too much care i.e. watering, mowing, yadda yadda..Goats eat grass, but they are too noisy, smelly, and mischievous for my taste. But then, grilled goat ain’t bad, provided enough barbecue sauce.

By: Stump Man

Stump Man — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:40:07 +0000

Growing grass is pointless. Grow Food!

By: Hoodwink

Hoodwink — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:03:40 +0000

This kind of home (if built into the hillside, or totally underground w/skylights) would be a great solution for those of us in CA, or Austrailia, where wildfires seem to occur with greater frequency, every year! Use black/dark grey cement, instead of white, to keep from having to re-paint, and install some fire-rated steel, roll-down window protection (maybe even one that rolls across the stair entry way, to keep the fire above), and you are good to go!

By: Lone

Lone — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:50:58 +0000

Great looking house. Love to have a dinner or something on the roof.

2many morons 2count -
Your going to have to do better than that.
Having that grass (and the soil it grows in) on the roof makes for great, natural insulation all year long and it also does a small aesthetic service to the landscape (if only superficially in this case). And they were making a joke about the goats, don’t see what was hard about understanding that. Even if you did have them they’d at least keep weeds and other irritants down which is half of maintaining a lawn.

ashogo-
Japan’s been doing this for awhile because they’ve been in a urban land crisis for several decades. Could go back a few thousand years pointing out whose been putting gardens on top of their homes. The house is in Poland, where that issue isnt present to any real degree, so a plan like this sticks out.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:13:26 +0000

Brian: – heh.

By: 2many morons 2count

2many morons 2count — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:33:53 +0000

House with grass on the roof, stupid. As FOR (not to) the mower, goats don’t “mow” anything, you are a moron.

By: ashogo

ashogo — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:51:31 +0000

Japan is way ahead on this stuff; they have entire gardens built on the roofs of 15-story offices for their employees to use. This is a cool design though.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:59:10 +0000

Add a garden and some cattle, and you have Farm over Function.