Architectural Shelters with an Indigenous Live Roof
A Modular System LiveShade combines a green roof product with ICON’s attractive steel structures to create a cool and attractive shade space. ICON’s engineered roof facia is designed to work with the LiveRoof® modular green roof system, which is available throughout many locations in the US. A LiveRoof® grower in your region assures that you will receive a product that has been produced for your growing zone.
Green roof module with soil elevator installed
Green roof module filled to top of soil elevator
Green roof plants grown to maturity
Installer sets green roof modules on the roof within the engineered fascia
Soil elevator shields are removed to allow for seamless growth
Plants are watered to allow for settling of growing medium
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Specifications
Module Size: 1’ x 2’ x 3-1/4” (soil height approximately 4-1/4”) Soil fills soil elevator, plants and soil obscure module edges. Module Weight: 14 oz./sq.ft. Material: 100% post-consumer recycled polypropylene 100 mil. thick walls. Water Dispersal: Appx. 10 gal/min/lineal foot. HiFlow option available. Module Color: Black or gray. Weight Vegetated (fully saturated): approx. 27-29 lbs./ sq. ft. Drainage: Positive drain holes, at lowest point in module. Soil Media: Proprietary LiveRoof® specified engineered soil, based upon German FLL granulometric specifications, 94+% by dry weight inorganic content for minimal shrinkage/decomposition. (92% in British Columbia). Dry weight approx. 60-65 lbs/cu.ft. Acceptable Protective Underlying Materials: Modules to be placed directly upon EPDM. Plants: Contact ICON for grower in your region, for specific recommendations.
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Irrigation of LiveShade™ Shelters
LiveShade combines a green roof product with ICON’s attractive steel structures to create a cool and attractive shade space. ICON’s engineered roof facia is designed to work with the LiveRoof® modular green roof system, which is available throughout many locations in the US. A LiveRoof® grower in your region assures that you will receive a product that has been produced for your growing zone. LiveShade™ Irrigation
Dig trench into soil with hoe
ICON structures can be fitted with irrigation to keep the green roof healthy and lush. Flexible waterlines can be fed through the steel framing members to the peak of the structure. At the roof, burying the water lines in the soil avoids unsightly lines in young plant trays, and reduces the opportunity for vandalism on the system. Drainage is designed into the fascia system, and can be taken to grade with a gutter and downspout. See illustration at right. ICON does not provide irrigation products. To hear an interview with a Chicago-area landscape architect about live roofs on park shelters, visit:
Prevegetated LiveRoof Modules SCH 40 PVC Irrigation Pipe
MP Rotator or Equivalent Pop-Up Irrigation Head Use hoe to trench pipe in at Moisture PortalsTM SCH 80 Solvent Weld Fittings
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DragonFly Landing, Lisle, IL
The LiveShade™ shelter at DragonFly Landing in Lisle, Illinois was conceived by the landscape architects at Planning Resources Inc. The park is a former flood plain area that was converted to a storm drainage pond, and they wanted to promote the reduced runoff that a green roof provides. Darrell Garrison, a Principal at Planning Resources, gave ICON an interview in which he discusses the project. You can view that interview on You Tube at: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2qq5jZeA5QU For their work on PrairieWalk Pond and DragonFly Landing, Planning Resources Inc. of Wheaton, Illinois was the recipient of the 2011 Honor Award in the category of Environmental Stewardship by the Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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Dorothy Drennon Park, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Tod Stanton of Design Perspectives, Inc. in Naperville, Illinois designed this LiveShade™ shelter to promote an environmentally friendly theme at the new Dorothy Drennon Park in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. The two tiered shelter has painted metal standing seam roofing on the top tier, which allows for rain water to drain onto the live roof material on the lower tier. Extensive installation of live roof structures can reduce rainfall runoff by up to 90% annually, and when installed in urban areas, can reduce the heat island effect. To hear an interview with a Chicago-area landscape architect about live roofs on park shelters, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qq5jZeA5QU
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Tolentine Park, Olympia Fields, IL
Thomas Lind of Brusseau Design Group, LLC in Hoffman Estates, Illinois specified this LiveShade™ shelter for the new Tolentine Park in Olympia Fields, Illinois. This 16’ x 16’ LiveShade™ picnic shelter sits at the entry to the play area of the park, and is identified by a custom entry arch structure. Other features of the park include a public garden, a sensory garden, arborvitae maze, a walking/biking trail, game area that includes bag toss, bocce and basketball, a playground and a themed waterplay installation. To hear an interview with a Chicago-area landscape architect about live roofs on park shelters, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qq5jZeA5QU
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