• A CASE STUDY IN ROOF GARDEN

Abstract

As the world is heading towards the drain out of natural resources and the loss of forest/ agricultural area due to urbanization, there is a need of roof gardens. Due to the population explosion, all the open areas are occupied by concrete buildings. When we cannot avoid utilizing open spaces on the ground for the construction of buildings and other utilities, then at least the open spaces available above these buildings can be utilized for plantations and gardens. It is very suffices to use roofs of the building for gardens. In this paper we discussed the need of roof gardens, and how to minimize the cost of making roof gardens by using linear programming problem.