267m2 – Semi-Intensive Sloping Indigenous Roof Garden at Turrawarra Abbey

Location  – Tarrawarra Abbey, Yarra Glen

Landscape Architect  – Aspect Studios

Architect  – Baldasso Cortese

Project Builder  – Building Engineering P/L

Design & Install  – Fytogreen Australia

Completion  – March 2015

Photography – Andrew Lloyd

Fytogreen installed a 200mm deep profile picturesque roof top garden on the new Fire Shelter at Tarrawarra Abbey.  Part of the roof garden includes a 22ø slope section with a 300mm deep profile. A total 2,100 plants were used, spread between 24 species.

As a response to the potential threat on extreme weather days, the green roof to this building can be wet-up via the sub soil irrigation system using site captured water with a pump on generator power.


AWARD WINNNING PROJECT:  2018 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects VIC Award  – Aspect Studios – Category – Small Projects – Tarrawarra Abbey