Living-Roof, Zaragoza Building, Spanish Architecture, Images, Design
Living-Roof in Zaragoza
Temporary Pavilion in Zaragoza – design by Magén Arquitectos, Rebeca Tristán
20 Nov 2012
Living-Roof
Design: Magén Arquitectos
Location: Zaragoza, Spain
Living-Roof

It’s been almost a century since Le Corbusier, published in the 20s his “Theory of the roof-garden,” seed of the fifth of his five points for a new architecture, which addresses the use of the terrace.

Although we can think that climbing up the roof is an ancient impulse of human and technical progress of constructive solutions, today roofs of our cities are underused. The project “living-roof?-(re) activate the roofs proposes an exploration of the possibilities of use of contemporary urban roofs, transforming them -through its use- in an architectural space to be lived and used as support activities associated with their condition of elevated plane over the cityscape.
The origin of the investigation was the roof of Ebro Environmental Center, also in Zaragoza, exploring the possibilities of a public facility as urban space, viewpoint, energy collector, green area, and even as urban garden. With this experience, the new project is focused on private landscapes, boosting facilities and activities in the field of domesticity, which also reflected the momentum in other sectors, such as hotel, to opportunities to use roofs.

The pavilions overlooking Zaragoza tend to be a prototype of a po...