Roof Pond Building

Because of different roof layouts the building can reduce heat and preserve a lower indoor temperature.

Roof pond building.

Harold hay in 1973 at atascadero california. Vietnam house with a thatched roof and a pond. To demonstrate a roof pond system that uses water and sun to heat and cool without electricity. Thanks to that slot people can feel and be aware of the movement of.

Pond house forresterarchitects 26 mar. H2o sun 3. The roof is 2 75 m high. Ponding is the typically unwanted pooling of water typically on a flat roof or roadway.

Roof pondroof pond skytherm systemskytherm system by sushilkumar gupta s y b arch 18 sem iii 2. So i did research to find alternatives. Skytherm house invented by. There didn t seem to be many alternatives available till i got the idea to use a pond liner.

Along with the roofing system there is a slot that allows more day light to enter the area in the middle of the house. To cover the roof of a 30 feet long building with metal the roofing sheets would need to be at least 30 feet long for it to not leak. It is a 4 7 m single room building built from typical iraqi building material. Ponding water accelerates the deterioration of many materials including seam adhesives in single ply roof systems steel equipment supports and particularly roofing asphalt.

Extremely versatile it can be used over the roof membrane for maintenance or under the new roof membrane in reroofing applications. The walls are built from 24 cm brick finished with plaster from the inside and cement from the outside. The rainwater guttering is also concealed within the roof and wall construction to allow the building profile to appear continuous and uninterrupted. To examine how useful a roof pond would be in improving the indoor environment in baghdad a test room was used.

This would be expensive and there would be no way i could do it myself. Reroof main house only no solar.