Nigel Dunnett Roof Garden

He and colleague james hitchmough led the team behind the olympic park london back in 2008.

Nigel dunnett roof garden.

Nigel dunnett the landscape agency. Sep 1 2014 explore yvonne voermans s board garden designers. Above the roof waterproofing layer there is a modular drainage sheet that allows excess water to drain from the system but also acts as a permanent reservoir of water at the base of the gardens. See more ideas about garden garden design garden inspiration.

He is director of the green roof centre sheffield and acts widely as a consultant on green roof design and planting and sustainable garden and landscape design in general. He knows his stuff having completed various high status projects. Above this layer sits a filter fleece that lets water through but which prevents the growing medium from being washed away into the drainage layer. Influence of substrate depth.

Nigel dunnett is professor of planting design and urban horticulture at the university of sheffield. He writes regularly for landscape and garden publications including gardens illustrated and the garden. However subsequent structural analysis proved the portico to be unsuitable for supporting a green roof. The initial concept for the scheme also included a green roof for the portico which would have been the starting point for that storm water chain.

Urban ecosystems 11 4 373 384. Dunnett n nagase a hallam a 2008 the dynamics of planted and colonising species on a green roof over six growing seasons 2001 2006. Nigel dunnett on pinterest.