Human-Driven Extensive Greenroof Design

dc.contributor.authorHenderson, Beau Tyleren
dc.contributor.committeechairMiller, Patrick A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberJohnson, Benjamin C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberErvin, Erik H.en
dc.contributor.departmentLandscape Architectureen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:42:13Zen
dc.date.adate2003-09-03en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:42:13Zen
dc.date.issued2003-06-12en
dc.date.rdate2003-09-03en
dc.date.sdate2003-07-30en
dc.description.abstractThroughout 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.degreeMaster of Landscape Architectureen
dc.identifier.otheretd-07302003-101502en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07302003-101502/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/34257en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartGreenroofThesis03.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectHuman-Driven Designen
dc.subjectExtensive Green Roof Technologyen
dc.titleHuman-Driven Extensive Greenroof Designen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineLandscape Architectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Landscape Architectureen

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