Norwegian Houses With Grass On The Roofs

Some are green as pasture while others are golden in color.

Norwegian houses with grass on the roofs.

A sod roof or turf roof is a traditional scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards. The load of approximately 250 kg per m of a sod roof is an advantage because it helps to compress. Until the late 19th century it was the most common roof on rural log houses in norway and large parts of the rest of scandinavia. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the.

Green roofs have become a long standing tradition in norway and it s not common to see them dotting the country s landscape or in this case essentially melding with the landscape. Others are golden and look like they re growing wheat or oats. Some are bright green and almost velvety. Norwegian grass roofs the norwegian translation is torvtak which means turf roof.

They look like hobbit homes or houses for fairies but scandinavian grass roofs are the real deal. The grass roofs of norway kaushik patowary sep 15 2010 38 comments norwegians have their own way of going green and quite literally. And they come in different varieties.