Green Roof Portland

Designed by michael graves the building was completed in 1981 and was hailed as a prototype of postmodern architecture at the time adorning the covers of newsweek and time.

Green roof portland.

Green roof advocates everywhere are celebrating the recently adopted portland central city 2035 plan cc2035 plan which includes a mandate for vegetated roofing. The result is a growing interest in using ecoroofs and roof gardens. For information about portland s ecoroof program contact tim kurtz 503 823 5418. The green roof atop the portland building an architectural icon located in downtown portland oregon was completed in november 2006.

Portland is at the forefront of this exciting green building movement. A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium planted over a waterproofing membrane it may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems. Our good friend jim labbe installed the roof in portland pdx oregon in 2017. Portland has a long tradition of green roofs back to the early noughties.

However they do not refer to them as green roofs but as ecoroofs. Container gardens on roofs where plants are maintained in pots are not generally considered to be true green roofs although. Ecoroof video the nature of portland s rooftops. The piedmont green roof is the next stop on our small scale green roof tour.