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    CHAPTER SEVEN FLAT ROOF GREENING OF EXISTING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS AS A PASSIVE STRATEGY FOR DECREASING CITY WARMING AMIR CAUSEVIC, AMIRA SALIHBEGOVIC, NERMAN RUSTEMPASIC Abstract Strategies for a healthier life and a better natural environment remain ‘one of the main topics in social science, but we still witness a poor relationship between our society and both the natural and built environments, One of the most common effects of global warming is thermal heating of cities. This is responsible for about 40 % of total annul ‘energy consumption and one third of carbon dioxide emissions (UNEP, 2009). One of the most widespread effects of global warming is the increasing temperature of cities, ie., the emergence of heat islands or urban pollution (urban heat island or UHD), Eco-friendly, green, and sustainable architecture is a synonym for a holistic approach, both in terms of architectural and urban design and work undertaken on existing structures. A passive strategy in sustainable architecture, one that promotes a relationship between the natural and built ‘environments, is the greening of existing roots, Among passive strategies for sustainable construction and an ‘environmentally acceptable, responsible, and positive relationship with the natural and buill environments, the greening of buildings is a natural model to achieve cncrgy-cfficient measures for existing buildings. The greening of roofs on existing buildings of collective housing, in the category of smaller residential buildings, which are the most numerous type in Bosnia and Herzegovina (58 %), highlights its potential as a Flat Roof Greening of Existing Residential Buildings as a Passive 99 Strategy for Decreasing City Warming ‘measure to improve the energy characteristics of these buildings and to reduce urban pollution. This paper gives a review of structures builtin the Sarajevo Canton in the last half of the twentieth century, pointing out the need for their restoration through greening of flat roofs in the context of sustainability and their contributing to lowering the thermal heating of the city. Through analysis, including analysis of the structural and material aspects of flat roofs in the built environment, this research indicates possibilities and architectural solutions for greening flat roofs on existing residential buildings for different loads, depending on the typology and materials used, Keywords: warming; heating; eco-friendly; sustainable architecture; ‘green roofs; environmental protection. Introduction We are witnessing climate change and its increasingly extreme natural impacts and catastrophes. Concerns about the environment are increasing, especially in urban areas. There are many strategies for sustainable development and construction, This paper deals with one strategy for the passive recovery of structures, which can result in lowering the load placed on the natural and built environments One of the simplest ways fo retum to nature everything that the construction of a building has occupied or “scized,” is to make the envelope of a building green, in particular the roofs. Greening of roofs was ‘known even in the ancient architecture of Babylon (600 BCE), in the area ‘of modern-day Syria: the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis provide the ‘earliest documented use of this concept, Soil is used as thermal insulation, both on facilities built into the ‘ground, and as a layer applied to the roofs of buildings, Its use is found in areas with warm, as well those with harsh, cold climates, where the soil layer has been used for stabilization (e.g, the traditional architecture of Norway, Denmark, ete.), This is a relatively new phenomenon that was developed in Germany in the 1960s. As such, Germany is considered to be the place of origin of modem green roofs in Europe: the green roof is used as a functional layer to protect against heat and fire. Roof greening in Germany has increased annually by approximately 13.5 million square ‘meters (m’). 100 Chapter Seven Building Green Roofs as an Energy Efficiency Measure ‘Taking into consideration that there are settlements with flat roofs of

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