There’s a new green roof at Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. Exhibition Designer Lindsay Smith says the “Cairns on the Beach” courtyard installation has been in the works the past two years, but is now available for viewing and the enjoyment of Museum patrons…
Smith explains the purpose of the pre-vegetated modules or plantings around the stone sculptures are to soften and add color. Smith indicates well known American Crop Artist Stan Herd assisted with the project in its early planning. Three landscape architecture students were involved in the early design phase.
The exhibition is an installation in the Stolzer Family Foundation Gallery, an open air courtyard. Museum director Linda Duke says, “From early in the conceptual phase, everyone got excited about the green roof idea; the Landscape Architecture students were especially keen on having a chance to design one.”
The green roof uses the LiveRoof® Hybrid Deep System with six inches of soil. The pre-vegetated modules were grown by Roof Top Sedums and then shipped to the building site and installed by LiveRoof® Certified Installer Dryspace, Inc.
Smith will be a guest on KMAN’s “In Focus” next Wednesday (July 8).
