Skyrise Greenery
Green roofs, vertical greenery and gardens in the sky – skyrise greenery is greenery integrated into built-forms in the city. It has increasingly become an important component of sustainable urban development in the 21st century.
The continuous efforts in making Singapore a “City in a Garden” have resulted in the lush greenery throughout the island. With skyrise greening, nature becomes closely intertwined with the urban fabric, existing not only as parks and gardens but also as an integral part of buildings and our living environment.
Within NParks, much effort has been put into research and the promotion of skyrise greenery through seminars, publications, awards and the development of guidelines and incentives.
What is skyrise greenery?
Rooftop greenery
Rooftop greenery refers to the greening efforts and landscaping on rooftop surfaces. In general, there are two main categories of rooftop greenery – green roof (extensive rooftop greenery) and roof garden (intensive rooftop greenery).
Vertical greenery
Vertical greenery represents a new dimension in greenery-related infrastructure, where plants are incorporated within vertical surfaces. Traditionally, vertical greenery commonly involved climbing plants with adventitious, self-clinging roots growing directly on coarse building surfaces, twining plants growing on trellis and pergolas, or plants growing within the crevices of stacked rocks. In recent years, numerous contemporary systems have been developed for the growing of plants on vertical surfaces.