// With which of its properties can the steep roof contribute to a successful urban redensification?
Interview mit Tom Verschueren, dmvA architects in Belgien, beim RooftopTalk #19
If we look at a historical city, each historical city is featured by different architectural styles. That means that you have to try to integrate your new project in the existing urban fabric. Nowadays, if we are talking about densification, we often talk about scale, human scale and integration. I think that gabled roof, a steep roof, is a better medium than a volume with a flat roof. For example, in the city of Rush in Belgium, it is even not allowed to build with a flat roof. Each architect has to respect the local building regulations that tells you have to build with a steep roof in Rush. My question is, is it better that some of cities in Belgium - in Germany also - try to respect this regulation and to avoid to build with flat roofs? I think it can be a good solution for historical cities, not for each city, but really historical cities may requires a steep roof instead of a flat roof. Culture determines architecture. And architecture is often also determined by climates. If you take for example Marokko with warm climate, the 5th facade, the roofs are used as roof terrace for technics. This it's completely different to Central Europe. Here we have a lot of rain, so why wouldn't we build with a steep roof?
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