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...School of Design, meeting Faust’s challenge would require major renovations to its only building, Gund Hall,a 1970s Brutalist concrete building half occupied by a 35,000 square foot open studio space where the temperature varies by as much as 15 degrees between the bottom and top levels...
...Harvard Graduate School of Design removed 3,750 pounds of gravel from the roof of Gund Hall and replaced it with different amounts of organic substrate on Friday afternoon to test different cost-effective methods of green roof retrofitting...
...School of Design successfully installs a green roof, Werthmann said that the plants will be able to absorb excess storm water as well as reduce the amount of sunlight directly hitting Gund Hall...
Werthmann has only been able to place two inches of substrate on the roof of Gund Hall—most green roofs require at least four—and only 10 to 20 percent of test areas have sprouted plants...
Christoph F. Reinhart, a professor at the School of Design, said that creating a green roof at Gund Hall may not save the school as much energy as other green projects, such as new insulation for the building...