The rooftop was conceived in three primary strips; a vegetated roof, a folded wood deck and a paved area with lawn.  The central strip of folded wood decking provides a proliferation of uses including gathering areas, viewing benches, tanning areas and hot tub. The wood strip is interrupted by the main tectonic movement of a sunken courtyard intruding it and a guesthouse extruding it. The wood strip unfolds in some areas exposing a mirrored stainless steel surface on its underside that creates a spiraling stair pod to the courtyard and a pantry area in the guesthouse.

This is what the designers said:

We wanted to build a new environmentally-friendly town where the environment is considered
as an important part of everyday life. we propose ‘spiral garden system’: a public sustainable
place like a green heart, easy to maintain and self-sufficient, created by a joint population that will stimulate social interaction among neighbors. a light, spiral structure protected by a
transparent and suggestive mesh, the project encourages the city to create sustainable exchange spaces in different ways. this spiral contains an ascending garden where native vegetation can coexist with urban orchards, shared and planted for the neighbors for easy maintenance and serving also as a green outdoor walk. ‘spiral garden system’ increases social interaction between people, provides a place for exchanging natural products, and becomes a way for local residents to get involved with their neighborhood. to sum up, we propose an ecological project in a wayto give sustainable change to daily city lives, where humans and nature can coexist.

Various designs of conservatories are available that you can opt for according to the space available at nominal costs with perfection. Different types of UPVC conservatory designs are:

Dome Conservatory: Made in a dome type structured roof, this type of conservatory allows light to enter flat to the surface of your conservatory. The glass used is generally clear with an option of rain dropping inside your conservatory.

Gable Conservatory: This type is available in triangle shape under the end of conservatory’s pitched roof where triangle top meets the roof ridge. You can build the type that can easily make using your available space and size with trusses made vertically from roof.

Lean to conservatory: UPVC conservatories look perfect in this type of design having modern approach with a slanted roof braced on the elevation of the wall attached to your house. The architecture itself is modern and less expensive that best utilizes your space in a perfect manner even if the area available is small. It can give a slant in conservatory that is leaned to the property of your house. Due to the simplicity of the construction, these are very popular as DIY conservatories allowing the customer to save even more by cutting out the salesman’s commission.

P-shaped conservatory: It is designed in such a way that the vertical line of P is usually a lean to design attached to the house property and the round of P can be made in harmony with the vertical part of the conservatory. This can give you more space to be used inside a UPVC conservatory that can accommodate extra stuff inside it.

Sliding door conservatory: This is the most commonly type of conservatory made of UPVC doors and windows that are durable in property and constructed in different patterns. The main components of sliding door conservatories are folding doors, sliding doors and concertina doors that allow extra ventilation as compared to the traditional doors and windows. An option of high quality sliding doors will make the proper functioning of this type of conservatory.

T-shaped conservatory: This is similar to the P-type of conservatory in which the horizontal of T is the lean to design with vertical-end made in harmony with the property. The benefit of this type is that all the corners are made in such a way that the look of the conservatory becomes huge.

Lantern conservatory: This type has high-heightened ceiling with a real big space that will make your UPVC conservatories look large in coordination with the house interiors. You can use a variety of glasses to make this type of conservatory and increase the ventilation options of your conservatory. You can design any of these types of conservatories in your house that can blend well with the interiors of your house within a limited budget and time.

You can direct the water by creating a path for it to follow (water spouts, for example). The biggest problem with water spouts in the process of harvesting the water, is that they are usually very close to the soil, and you can’t place a large container underneath them.

In this case, you can place rain chains at the edges of your house which will direct a large quantity of water directly into a container. 

The garden rain chains are made of aluminum or copper, and can be found in various forms or styles: Japanese rain chain, cups rain chain, links, double links Zen loops etc.

You can also install a digital Waterflow controller, that can be connected with a computer, that checks to the local Weather Bureau for the forecast and decides if the plants need an intense watering or none! This can really save you a lot of money!

Any destination you might have for your dream house, just follow some simple rules:

• In a world invaded with modernism, a simple wooden house with a simple paint, colored door and windows and curtains in tone with the wood of the house would calm everyone.
• Your house and garden would be more relaxing with a lot of green. Just combine the paved areas with the grass and plants.
• The color harmony is the key. The floors, the ceramic or wooden flower pots, the garden furniture and the pillows are all great in ground tones.
• In a small space you can place a table and two chairs where you can drink your coffee in the morning or just sit and relax.
• You can place most of the flowers in pots because they are easier to maintain.

While nature can take care of your garden in some areas, you can be a real ecologist by storing the water in rain barrels when it rains and use it later (that mostly applies to areas where it doesn’t rain that often). You can use that water for you indoor flowers also – it’s even more recommended.

But how can you start in this process of rain harvesting?

The simplest way is to place barrels under the water spouts of your house. This will do just fine, but you won’t get the maximum quantity. For more efficiency, position a chain in the spout: this will make the water flow a lot more precise. Professional rain water barrels have a side flat (for saving space), a valve for the hose, and are designed in various ways to fit well in the environment – after all, why does a barrel have to look a like a barrel? It can be a box, a wall, a crate…

If you decide to start harvesting in a rain barrel, you’re lucky: it’s a lot more organic and healthy for your plants!

In June, consider planting some summer flowers that will bloom every time until the frost comes, like: petunias, sage, lion’s mouth, queen of the night, dills, coreopsis etc. If you’ll plant those later, they will have difficulties in growing and they will have a light bloom, because the summer heat will affect them.

Rare and remove any weed from the young plants

Most flowers and vegetables seeded in the months until June have already bloomed. It is important to rare those and remove any weeds. If you don’t do this at the right moment, the plants will be compromised, growing frail and remaining little, overwhelmed by weeds, they will lack light and food because they will be too frequent. Eventually, they will bloom a lot later and will produce less and smaller flowers. In this kind of conditions, the vegetables will loose their quality too. Remove the weeds from the roots and get them out of the garden! If you leave them there, the first rain will revive them, because of their great survival properties.

Loosing the soil and destroying the crust

Because of the rains, frequent watering and even work and walks done in the garden, the soil will harden and form a crust at the surface, highly unfavorable to flowers, vegetables, trees and vine. The crust has to be fought with a light breeding, using the dig or the spud. This way, you can favor the water and air path into the soil and destroy the weeds, a feared competitor to water and nutrients for all crops.

Don’t neglect the watering

The weather is a lot hotter, so the lack of water is starting to get noticed in the soil for all the plants. You have to water very well, in a way that will make the water run towards the roots of the plants. If you seed some vegetables too, it’s good to know, for example, that the cabbage, the cauliflower, the cucumbers, the onion, the salad, the celery are great water consumers. Moderate consumers are the tomatoes, the peppers and the eggplants. Perennial vegetables are more resistant to drought than the annual ones. Water the garden early in the morning and in the evening, with water kept in open containers, that has the same temperature as the air, and repeat this process every 7-10 days.

The continuous blooming secret

For some species, you have to remove the flower as soon as it withers, to stop creating seeds, a process that will unnecessary use the nutrients and the water from the soil (unless you want to obtain the seeds!!). For the majority of the annual plants, the withered flowers should break at the stem clamping. For the roses, cut the stem for a region that will go down until it reaches the first leaf consists of five small leaves (folio); the first leafs under the flower have only three folios. Be careful that the first bud under the cut to be oriented to the bush exterior. This will grow a shoot on which, in some soils, in autumn will bloom a new flower. On bulb plants (daffodils, tulips, hyacinths) tear the entire stem, until the first leafs, which you’ll leave as they are until they turn yellow and dry. For the lilac, you can remove only the withered flowers on top of the branches, without cutting the wood part.

This particular model is available here, and if you don’t know what to do with 5000$, I say go for it.