I’m on a rooftop in Vienna. It’s a warm day but around me students work and chat in comfort, shaded by solar panels amid lots of plants.
The garden feels like an oasis amidst Vienna’s densely packed buildings.
It’s a demonstration project by Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), to show how a green roof can be combined with solar panels while preserving the feel of a garden.
It’s a demonstration project by Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), to show how a green roof can be combined with solar panels while preserving the feel of a garden.
Such gardens are valuable in cities where open space is at a premium and a green roof is more than just a flat roof with a few pot plants.
They have several layers of materials, providing sealing, drainage, filtration, soil and vegetation. The benefits are abundant: they can cool roof surfaces, retain rainwater, attract varied animal species, and of course create a more pleasant atmosphere.
Some are walkable, with solar panels suspended high above the garden. On others the panels are placed low down, or even at the ground level.
Given the demand for renewable energy, it makes sense to combine the garden and solar panels into a biosolar roof and in some ways the two functions complement each other.
The cooling effect can boost the performance of the photovoltaic (PV) technology. And the soil or other substrate for the plants can provide the weight to anchor the panels.
I’m on a rooftop in Vienna. It’s a warm day but around me students work and chat in comfort, shaded by solar panels amid lots of plants.
It’s a demonstration project by Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), to show how a green roof can be combined with solar panels while preserving the feel of a garden.
The garden feels like an oasis amidst Vienna’s densely packed buildings.
Such gardens are valuable in cities where open space is at a premium and a green roof is more than just a flat roof with a few pot plants.
It’s a demonstration project by Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), to show how a green roof can be combined with solar panels while preserving the feel of a garden.
It’s a demonstration project by Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), to show how a green roof can be combined with solar panels while preserving the feel of a garden.
Such gardens are valuable in cities where open space is at a premium and a green roof is more than just a flat roof with a few pot plants.
They have several layers of materials, providing sealing, drainage, filtration, soil and vegetation. The benefits are abundant: they can cool roof surfaces, retain rainwater, attract varied animal species, and of course create a more pleasant atmosphere.
Some are walkable, with solar panels suspended high above the garden. On others the panels are placed low down, or even at the ground level.
Given the demand for renewable energy, it makes sense to combine the garden and solar panels into a biosolar roof and in some ways the two functions complement each other.
The cooling effect can boost the performance of the photovoltaic (PV) technology. And the soil or other substrate for the plants can provide the weight to anchor the panels.
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