{"id":38214,"date":"2017-04-13T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoplastglobal.com\/?p=38214"},"modified":"2022-11-24T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T15:31:15","slug":"roof-gardens-modern-trend-already-theorized-by-le-corbusier-its-five-points-towards-new-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplastglobal.com\/en\/blog\/roof-gardens-modern-trend-already-theorized-by-le-corbusier-its-five-points-towards-new-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Corbusier’s roof gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in Poissy, France, that sums up his five points of architecture.<\/em>\r\n\r\nRoof gardens play a far greater part in improving city living and nowadays are becoming increasingly common worldwide. But it is not about a recent architectural topic: it had already captured\u00a0the interest of the renowned Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier<\/a> at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.\r\n\r\nIn 1926\u00a0Le Corbusier<\/a> and Pierre Jeannert<\/a>\u00a0wrote the short manifesto “Five Points Towards a New Architecture<\/a>“, where they discussed supports, free design of the ground plane, horizontal windows, free design of the facade and roof gardens<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nWithin Le Corbusier research, the roof garden was a fundamental mean of bringing nature to houses. It meant\u00a0to a city the recovery of all the built-up area. Le Corbusier experimented with a variety of spatial conditions for the roof garden: it could be an elevated space with vegetation within the heart of the building, a terraced garden, external to the building, as well as a solarium, at the top.\r\n\r\nToday it has been confirmed that Le Corbusier’s work was going in the right direction. Several recent research studies measured the impact on noise, pollution, and heat of roof gardens and got these conclusions:\r\n