Roof Pond Building

A backyard garden pond with running water floating plants and darting fish can make a bland space breathtaking.

Roof pond building.

Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden. The two buildings were configured as modified roof pond systems one with a wet surface and one with a dry surface. Add tip ask question comment download. Keeping it attractive and trouble free takes work but with a little extra care at the planning and building stages you can create a pond that s almost maintenance free.

Extremely versatile it can be used over the roof membrane for maintenance or under the new roof membrane in reroofing applications. Henry 176 pondpatch filler and leveler is an innovative method for filling and leveling roof ponds to assure positive drainage. The rainwater guttering is also concealed within the roof and wall construction to allow the building profile to appear continuous and uninterrupted. Pond house forresterarchitects 26 mar.

Roofing with a pond liner the old garage that we converted to a food production place came with a real challenge. The major uncertainties addressed were the heat loss rates from wet and dry roof ponds and the heat transfer from a cooled ceiling with either natural convection or forced convection ceiling fans. This will ensure that the pond is capable of retaining water indefinitely. In general the pond is covered during day to prevent heating and open at night to be cooled.

The roof is 2 75 m high. All the illustrations are drawn based on information provided in the reviewed papers particularly the following references. Spread heavy clay soil throughout the pond bed so that you have at least a 1 foot thickness throughout. The walls are built from 24 cm brick finished with plaster from the inside and cement from the outside.

A open roof pond without sprays. The big building has a roof with a very low 1 12 slope. Use flashing tape lead replacement self adhesive tape to seal the pond liner to the edge of the building where there is no flashing this makes sure that no water gets under the pond liner. Use the heavy machinery to tamp down this clay layer so that it is for all practical purposes seamless.

What is roof pond roof pond is a passive cooling technique based upon the increased heat capacity of cheap and widely available water. B open roof pond with sprays. This type of roof tends to leak when covered with roof metal sheets especially if the sheets overlap in the middle like ours did.