Our July meeting featured a tour of the Lovejoy Block 2, better known as the Asa Flats + Lofts. We had a great turnout, and had the added bonus of being able to see a number of adjacent ecoroofs and roof gardens. The first stop was the upper floor roof terrace, which had some great views of downtown to the south and Forest Park to the west.
Viewing from above, the lower terrace is visible, which offers extensive ecoroof atop townhouse units, and the community garden spaces with raised bed planters and more intensive vegetation.
The upper roof also offered some great view of a range of other area ecoroof and roof terraces. To the west is the Lovejoy Block 1, which has extensive vegetation and a more intensive rooftop below. In the right side of the photo, you can also see a glimpse of the Machine Works ecoroof adjacent to I-405..
Lovejoy Block II
To the north, the lush patterns of the ecoroof atop the Wyatt are visible, along with the intensive roof terrace area below. The contrast between these two projects and their aesthetics was quite a topic of conversation.
The Wyatt
We headed down to the lower terrace and checked out the synthetic lawn dog run (complete with fireplug) as well as the wide array of community garden beds in galvanized planters.
Afterwords we headed to Bridgeport for some refreshment and (somewhat noise-hampered) conversation… check out the meeting notes section for the low-down on what we discussed.
August 25, 2009 at 4:02 pm
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