ABSTRACT
The authors’ paper is focused on the technical aspects of reconstructions of large flat roofs with a special regard to avoiding the need to remove an existing roof deck and thus to significantly reduce the implementation, time and financial demands of an overall reconstruction.
Apart from this main aspect, attention is paid also to newly occurred aspects in the operation and use of flat roofs, specifically to the possibilities of retention of rain storm water and the problems of the location and operation of photovoltaic panels. In relation to technical aspects, also user aspects are considered and discussed, and great attention is paid to architectural aspects which can be in many cases achieved by a simple solution if it is well thought out and worked out with a specific architectural intention and in accordance with the overall architectural design of a building, as well as with the urban conditions of its surroundings. In their paper, the authors do not deal with the systems and possibilities to green roofs too deeply, since it is a well known and architecturally elaborated field. Generationenzentrum Eggersdorf, Graz, Austria – An architecturally successful and technically simple realization of a flat roof https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315730769/02223970-f959-45ac-9ad6-ab23b3acb748/content/fig70_1.jpg"/> Award in the competition of the IFD 2011 international roof congress in Dublin System MULTICOLOR, Büsscher & Hoffmann GmbH, Enns, Austria
