

Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Henderson, Beau Tyler URN etd-07302003-101502 Title Human-Driven Extensive Greenroof Design Degree Master of Landscape Architecture Department Landscape Architecture Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Patrick Miller Committee Chair Dr. Benjamin Johnson Committee Member Dr. Erik Ervin Committee Member Keywords
- Extensive Green Roof Technology – Human-Driven Des
Date of Defense 2003-06-12 Availability unrestricted 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.
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