Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University
Abstract
The roof is usually neglected in contemporary conventional design.On the contrary creating green areas on the flat building roofs has several advantages, such as improving the environmental and visual conditions of the city and increasing social interaction. To design green roof, the designer should take into consideration four main sets of factors: socioeconomic and cultural; functional and spatial; construction detailing; and technological factors’
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