Wood cement roof
The wood-cement roof was developed in 1839 by master cooper Samuel Häusler and is considered the forerunner of the flat roof . It consisted of oil and packing paper, which was glued with pitch or tar on the spot to wooden formwork , and was covered with sand and gravel to protect the roof membrane and for fire protection reasons. The applied substrate was partially greened with lawn or left to itself for spontaneous self-greening. This is how the first green roof that was ready for series production was created during industrialization . In the growth centers of European industrialization there are still partly original wood-cement roofs.
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literature
- Article in: Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon , Vol. 4 . 14th edition. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1894, pp. 673–675.
- Eduard Rüber: The lawn roof. The cheapest, most durable and most fire-proof type of roofing for urban and rural buildings . Edition Libri Rari, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-88746-390-0 (reprint of the Munich 1860 edition).
- Susanne Bossler, Bernd Suszka: Vegetation and substrate on roofs in Osnabrück . Diploma thesis, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück , Department of Land Care 1987.
- Susanne Bossler, Bernd Suszka: Spontaneous vegetation on roofs in Osnabrück . In: The Garden Department. 37/1988, pp. 209-223 .