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Architectural Shelters with an Indigenous Live Roof

A Modular System

LiveShade combines a green roof product with ICON’s attractive steel structures to create a cool and attractive shade space. ICON’s engineered roof facia is designed to work with the LiveRoof® modular green roof system, which is available throughout many locations in the US. A LiveRoof® grower in your region assures that you will receive a product that has been produced for your growing zone.

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Green roof module with soil elevator installed

Green roof module filled to top of soil elevator

Green roof plants grownto maturity

Installer sets green roof modules on the roof within the engineered fascia

Soil elevator shields are removed to allow for seamless growth

Plants are watered to allow for settling of growing medium

Specifications


Module Size: 1’ x 2’ x 3-1/4” (soil height approximately 4-1/4”) Soil fills soil elevator, plants and soil obscure module edges. Module Weight: 14 oz./sq.ft. Material: 100% post-consumer recycled polypropyl-ene 100 mil. thick walls. Water Dispersal: Appx. 10 gal/min/lineal foot. Hi-Flow option available.Module Color: Black or gray. Weight Vegetated (fully saturated): approx. 27-29 lbs./sq. ft. Drainage: Positive drain holes, at lowest point in mod-ule. Soil Media: Proprietary LiveRoof® specified engi-neered soil, based upon German FLL granulometric specifications, 94+% by dry weight inorganic content for minimal shrinkage/decomposition. (92% in British Columbia). Dry weight approx. 60-65 lbs/cu.ft. Acceptable Protective Underlying Materials: Modules to be placed directly upon EPDM.Plants: Contact ICON for grower in your region, for specific recommendations.

Irrigation of LiveShade™ Shelters

LiveShade combines a green roof product with ICON’s attractive steel structures to create a cool and attractive shade space. ICON’s engineered roof facia is designed to work with the LiveRoof® modular green roof system, which is available throughout many locations in the US. A LiveRoof® grower in your region assures that you will receive a product that has been produced for your growing zone.


LiveShade™ Irrigation

ICON structures can be fitted with irrigation to keep the green roof healthy and lush. Flexible waterlines can be fed through the steel framing members to the peak of the structure. At the roof, burying the water lines in the soil avoids unsightly lines in young plant trays, and reduces the opportunity for vandalism on the system. Drainage is designed into the fascia system, and can be taken to grade with a gutter and downspout. See illustration at right.

ICON does not provide irrigation products.

To hear an interview with a Chicago-area landscape architect about live roofs on park shelters, visit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qq5jZeA5QU

Dig trench intosoil with hoe

PrevegetatedLiveRoof Modules

SCH 40 PVCIrrigation Pipe

MP Rotator or EquivalentPop-Up Irrigation Head

Use hoe to trench pipe inat Moisture PortalsTM

SCH 80 SolventWeld Fittings

DragonFly Landing, Lisle, IL

The LiveShade™ shelter at DragonFly Landing in Lisle, Illinois was conceived by the landscape architects at Planning Resources Inc. The park is a former flood plain area that was con-verted to a storm drainage pond, and they wanted to promote the reduced runoff that a green roof provides.

Darrell Garrison, a Principal at Planning Resources, gave ICON an interview in which he discusses the project. You can view that interview on You Tube at:


For their work on Prai-rieWalk Pond and DragonFly Landing, Planning Resources Inc. of Wheaton, Illinois was the recipient of the 2011 Honor Award in the category of Environmental Steward-ship by the Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.


Dorothy Drennon Park, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

Tod Stanton of Design Perspectives, Inc. in Naperville, Illinois designed this LiveShade™ shelter to promote an environmentally friendly theme at the new Dorothy Drennon Park in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.

The two tiered shelter has painted metal standing seam roofing on the top tier, which allows for rain water to drain onto the live roof material on the lower tier.

Extensive installation of live roof structures can reduce rainfall runoff by up to 90% annually, and when installed in urban areas, can reduce the heat island effect.




Tolentine Park, Olympia Fields, IL

Thomas Lind of Brusseau Design Group, LLC in Hoffman Estates, Illinois specified this LiveShade™ shelter for the new Tolentine Park in Olympia Fields, Illinois.

This 16’ x 16’ LiveShade™ picnic shelter sits at the entry to the play area of the park, and is identified by a custom entry arch structure.

Other features of the park include a public garden, a sensory garden, arborvitae maze, a walking/biking trail, game area that includes bag toss, bocce and basketball, a playground and a themed waterplay installation.




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