Roofs & Rambles

Organised by the sponge network, in association with reset and livingroofs.org, the first integrated habitats workshop seems to be have been a great success. I was joined by Adam Dawson of Sponge and Blanche Cameron of RESET at Justin Bere’s House. Blanche had had this idea to try and do a workshop based on trying [...]

Hadn’t visited The Muse for a month or so the home of Justin Bere and Bere architects. Back in May, the main meadow roof had been dominated by common vetch. This had been a bit of worry. However the fact that a local house sparrow family were foraging on the profuse aphids covering the plants [...]

Visited Islington MO living roof, green roof, or brown roof today to measure up for the next stage of the greening. The existing small 40m2 plot is to have a big brother later in the year courtesy of the Buglife – Sita natured enhanced project. The current plot has really come on with Lucerne Birds [...]

Finally catching up with myself went to Stuttgat, Ulm, Linz and Vienna in late may this year in big green roof tour.
In Paris where I changed trains saw a green wall next door to Gare du Nord. In Stuttgart visited a few green roofs of which my favourite was a meadow roof at podium level. [...]

Original the Laban Dance Centre’s livingroof followed the original idea of the brown and rubble roof – self colonisation. However visits to Switzerland suggested that seeding the roofs would speed up the process. Most of the plants on the roof have been collected from around the local area. Anything attractive growing in bare concrete at [...]

Over the years a whole range of bugs have taken up residence on the rubble, brown roof at the Laban dance centre. It has thoroughly researched over the years. Annually since 2003! Some point soon we will publish a whole species list but a few things come to mind: we have seen quite a few [...]