Human-Driven Extensive Greenroof Design
| dc.contributor.author | Henderson, Beau Tyler | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Miller, Patrick A. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Johnson, Benjamin C. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Ervin, Erik H. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Landscape Architecture | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-14T20:42:13Z | en |
| dc.date.adate | 2003-09-03 | en |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-14T20:42:13Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2003-06-12 | en |
| dc.date.rdate | 2003-09-03 | en |
| dc.date.sdate | 2003-07-30 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Throughout history, utopian ideals have existed promoting nature as a necessary affect for better aesthetic and psychological being. Yet, as human populations climb so do stresses upon the natural environment - therefore, bringing "the city in harmony with nature" becomes more challenging. Fortunately, hope exists through the use of greenroof technology. Greenroofs are a green space created by continuous layers of drainage, protection, growing medium, and plants either onto or integral to a roofing system. This paper explores extensive greenroofs, characterized by low-maintenance and shallow growing medium. Greenroof benefits (ecological, economical, aesthetic, psychological) are classified as: Market and Human. Further exploration of human-driven benefits result in the definitions of active and passive sensation (the division of sensation): Active sensation is the immediate, present, unimagined engagement of a specific sense. Passive sensation is the imagined perception (sensing) of an object or element. As defined, Active Sensations are real and, therefore, have limits/defects/boundaries; yet, Passive Sensations are imagined, and therefore, limitless. As alluded by William James, "The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos." The remainder of the document explores human-driven greenroof design; emphasizing design as a form of inquiry. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Landscape Architecture | en |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-07302003-101502 | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07302003-101502/ | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34257 | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | GreenroofThesis03.pdf | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Human-Driven Design | en |
| dc.subject | Extensive Green Roof Technology | en |
| dc.title | Human-Driven Extensive Greenroof Design | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Landscape Architecture | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Landscape Architecture | en |
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