Detail: Nutzbare Dachflächen | Functional Roof Areas, 12/2006

Editorial

Le Cor­bu­sier was ar­gu­ably the most in­flu­en­tial ar­chi­tect in the pro­pa­ga­tion of the flat roof du­ring the early mo­dern mo­ve­ment. The dis­cus­sion whe­ther a roof should be flat or pit­ched howe­ver, be­longs to the past. Flat or pit­ched, roofs can do much more than just fi­nish a space or pro­vide wea­ther pro­tec­tion.

This issue presents some of these al­ter­na­ti­ves; the roof as a ter­race or gar­den space, solar power sta­tion, or even a place for buil­ding ex­ten­si­ons and in­cre­a­sing urban den­sity.