How can we make the city both more dense and more liveable? By opening up its rooftops! At a time of land scarcity and global warming, this vast reservoir of largely unused land is the focus of much interest.
From the roof of the eight-floor residential building in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, you can see the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. It’s the space…
MIT students created RoofScapes to convert pitched roofs in Paris into green spaces. MIT students have established a start-up called Roofscapes to convert the pitched roofs of Paris into green spaces using timber structures.