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While carefully preserving the integrity of historical roofs, our system allows each building to fully participate in urban resilience by reducing direct solar exposure and overheating, cooling and purifying air, retaining rainwater, as well as fostering local biodiversity. The green and communal spaces we create on the roof address the rising demand for direct outdoor access.

Scalability

Green roofs are nice. But in a city like Paris, four out of five buildings are covered by a pitched roof. Roofscapes is among those who see this surface as an incredible opportunity to improve well-being, living together and urban resilience.

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Low-tech city

Climate disruption is forcing the built environment to protect its inhabitants from increasingly extreme temperatures, at a time when we have less and less energy to artificially correct such temperatures. For a city to adapt and be resilient to climate-change, it is urgent to make use of solutions that are passive, replicable, and low-tech.

The right to adapt

As cities now face climates that differ radically from those for which they were built, Roofscapes defends the right to adapt to climate change through passive and decarbonized strategies in order to ensure that everyone has access to livable temperatures despite a warming world.

Power to non-humans

Renaturing cities doesn't simply imply greening the backdrop in front of which human-centric urban activities are played out. Renaturing cities implies, above all, a different mindset towards non-humans: giving them back some of the power we've seized for ourselves, recognizing their way of life and learning to live together with each other.

commitments

Low-tech city

The right to adapt

Power to non-humans

Construction

Roofscapes has developed a construction strategy that can be adapted to each roof configuration by replicating certain principles throughout the city. The modularity of the system of prefabricated wooden platforms allows it to adjust to the different dimensions and spans of the roofs. The loads of these modules are transmitted vertically to the thick masonry load-bearing walls that characterize pre-war European centers; these walls are largely oversized, providing the structural capacity to support new roof surfaces.