Houses With Grass Roofs In Norway

They look like hobbit homes or houses for fairies but scandinavian grass roofs are the real deal.

Houses with grass roofs in norway. I dont think so first i think this is natural but the norwegians traditional type of green roof co. 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. During the viking and middle ages most houses had sod roofs.

Roofs in scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory. In rural areas sod roofs were almost universal until the beginning of the 18th century. The load of approximately 250 kg per m of a sod roof is an advantage because it helps to compress. Houses with their roofs looking like small meadows may seem a little strange in these modern times but until the late 19th century turf roofs were the most common type of roofs in rural norway.

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. Some are bright green and almost velvety. Turf roofs in norway are a tradition and you will see them everywhere. Some are green as pasture while others are golden in color.

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. Norwegian grass roofs the norwegian translation is torvtak which means turf roof. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the. Grass roofs in norway is this the way of going go green.

The grass roofs of norway kaushik patowary sep 15 2010 38 comments norwegians have their own way of going green and quite literally.