Laban Dance Centre Brown Roof

The brown roof eco roof not only the laban garden create an environmentally friendly area for the laban centre.

Laban dance centre brown roof.

Before the redevelopment of the area the brownfields with a lot of debris and bricks had become the habitat of various rare plants insects and birds including the black redstart. The building is complete and has the first brown roof ever built in london for black redstarts. Although there is a sound ecological idea behind this approach there are a number of problems. Mail us fill in the contact form.

44 0 20 8305 4444. The first and most famous of these is the roof of the laban dance centre by herzog de meuron. Trinity laban conservatoire of music and dance king charles court old royal naval college london se10 9jf. A steady breeze was blowing but not the gale that coursed across the roof last week.

The laban dance centre is a the first of several landmark developments in deptford creek. The building has the first brown roof ever built in london for black redstarts urban recovery was the task for deptford creek which had declined over the years from neglect and misuse. Located in the thames corridor in london the deptford creek area now has several brown roofs. This research compares green roofs with well established urban brownfield sites.

4 2 brown roof laban dance centre. The brown roof is 400m 2 and is constructed of crushed concrete sourced from demolition material from the site prior to construction. Trinity laban is funded by the office for students ofs and research england re. Furthermore the newly created substrate based brown biodiverse roofs at laban and creekside are highly species rich.

The green roof brown roof on the laban dance centre although it was late afternoon there were at least four white tailed bumble bees and at least 7 brown carder bees frequenting the roof. The brown roof is 400m2 and is constructed of crushed concrete sourced from demolition material from. The original concept of the brown biodiverse roof was to use recycled brick and concrete form a local recycling plant. Original brown roof laban dance centre london.

The building won the riba building of the year award and herzog de meuron won the stirling prize for the laban dance centre building in 2003. The laban dance centre is the first of several landmark developments in deptford creek. The building is complete and has the first brown roof ever built in london for black redstarts. The original brown roof in london was installed on the laban dance centre in deptford and has developed into an important small biodiverse oasis.