Client

Paignton Zoo

Architect

Kay Elliott Architects

Main Contractor

Dean & Dyball

Type of Development

Living Coasts is Torquay’s latest attraction and is themed on its coastal habitat.  It contains a selection of tanks and pools to house many land and sea animals including penguins, puffins and otters.

Reason for Green Roof

A green roof was specified in order to create a roof top habitat for animals and birds.  Combining an aquarium with a marine aviary by using a green roof and cleverly constructed artificial rock landscaping, ensuring that the building would blend in easily with coastal landscape.

Type of Roof

Bauder Intensive Green Roof

Size of Green Roof

Build up of Roof

The multi-landscaped roof called for 9 different specifications, each one tailored specifically.  A combination of the specification constructions allowed 2-layer, warm roof and inverted roof scenarios to be adapted using the following materials:- 

Waterproofing Build-Up
Bauder VB4-Expal Vapour Barrier, 4mm thick featuring an expandable aluminium lining and utilising SBS modified elastomeric bitumen giving total vapour impermeability and providing initial waterproofing integrity during the system’s installation. 

Bauder Eurotherm Insulation, manufactured rigid CFC and HCFC free thermal insulation. 

Bauder  G4E Underlayer, 4mm thick highly modified with SBS elastomeric bitumen and reinforced with a very high tensile woven glass fibre carrier.

Bauder Plant-E Capping Sheet, 5mm thick, bituminous root resistant capping sheet containing a specially formulated chemical root inhibitor.

Green Roof Build Up
A variety of hard landscape finishes were adopted to comprise paving, concrete and boardwalks.

The intensive green roof system was also incorporated to achieve a variety of plant finishes including small shrubs and trees.

Comments

“Living Coasts is the final and most important element of the Torquay Harbour regeneration.  Living Coasts gives people a reasons to come to the waterfront and will prove to be the jewel in the crown of the English Riviera”
Philip Knowling, spokesperson for Living Coasts.

Completion Date

July 2003