Trailer Documentaire CityRooftop's De steden worden steeds warmer en de buien steeds harder het lijkt of we  een neerwaartse spiraal zitten. Hoe kan dit opgelost worden. Volgens Philip kan dit door het vergroenten van de daken. Op 20  augustus , 2014 zijn we begonnen Philip en de  Dakdokters te volgen Philip wil de daken in Amsterdam ombouwen tot eetbare tuinen die daardoor de regen langer vasthouden het gebouw verkoelen en omdat groeten lokaal wordt verbouwd hoeft er geen transport van buiten af plaats te vinden. Hierdoor wordt er minder energie gebruikt en kan de stad weer langzaam afkoelen.

Benny Vink twenty students and two instructors  In May 2017, twenty students and  Dr. Cameron Owens Associate Teaching Professor  from the University of Victoria (Canada) set off on a travel study adventure. After a week in Victoria, they will travel from the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic Northwest on a month-long itinerary from Paris to Copenhagen. En route, they will meet with city planners, designers, activists, community leaders, academics, and others grappling with the daunting social and ecological crises facing cities and ths week they visited   the "set" of Pure Media where in the last four years the documentary  CityRoofTops  was filmed. Benny Vink was able to explain that all film and media need to shift to a more sustainable way of working and he showed how sustainable filming can be done with succes. He also talked about the documentary  CityRoofTops , GrowingHome  and  AChef'sHeart Students relaxing on top of the Roof on Building B

City Roof Tops in final edit 20 Augustus 2014 we started filming on the roof of Building B in Amsterdam today 14 September 2016 over two years later I return  to see the final results and the final shots.  Philip with the help of Dakdokters wants to turn the rooftops in Amsterdam into self sustaining edible gardens.   B uilding B   on the Johan Huizingalaan in Amsterdam was  the first building to start with.  The first screen shot's  from our documentary "City Rooftops " two years ago

polder rooftop 21 june 2015 For our documentary  CityRoofTops   we went back to the Polder rooftop, nine months earlier two rows of sedum  were replaced by two rows of  vegetables.  Each  with a different irrigation  system. Today we came back to see the results. The test came out great but the arugula kept disappearing from the roof. Looking closer Philip discovered some goose droppings near the arugula. We don't need a CSI badge to know that the geese are eating the arugula Footages from docu CityRoofTops nine months earlier  Sacha Stolp and Phlipip Tra make are removing the sedum to make place for vegetables  almost two rows of sedum gone .However after Philip left to go to Building B, the police showed up on the roof,  somebody had triggered the burglar alarm. Since I was alone I had a lot of explaining to do, but it is always good to talk about our film projects Police car @ polder rooftop

Saturday, May 3 we continued filming for our documentary City Rooftops it was  a beautiful spring day on top of  Building B and the whole Grown Down Town team came to pick weeds , expand the henhouse and  repland the grapes  .   replant grapes                                                                                                                        expand the henhouse   Chickens give in exchange for organic waste eggs and fertilizer for edible plants on the roof Every day, four Kipster eggs

Philip van Traa Since September 2014 Pure Media is following designer and plant specialist Philip van Traa for the documentary CityRooftops . On Wednesday the 11th of March we sat down for an interview Philip van Traa. Set in one of his favorite locations, Philip van Traa shared his story and his heart. But before doing so, some preparation was necessary. Interview set-up Benny and I arrived early to check out the location. As we brought all the gear up, a buzzing sound was very much present on the huge open floor where the interview would be. Benny wanted this interview to be one of the high points in the documentary - so everything should be of the highest quality, including the sound. If you remove this kind of buzz in post production, voices start to sound unnatural and 'tinny' - and that's not what Benny wanted. We found the machine that was causing the buzz was the air ventilation system for the toilets. Then we asked the people at the location if we cou

Architect Luuk Verlint and filmmaker Benny Vink On Wednesday January 21st we continued filming for our documentary City Rooftops This time we talked with architect Luuk Verlint at his drawing table. He is the architect behind the drawings of the 2000 square metre roofgarden. Having done hundreds of roofgardens with the innovative team at De Dakdokters , this particular project is one of his grandest designs so far and is unique. Besides fruit, vegetables and various herbs, B's roof has a beach, barbeque spots and two lanes for "jeu de boules" to name some key points. Rooftops as these are what Luuk calls the "green lungs of the city". They can bring back some of the uses of land from the ground that was acquired for city buildings. More recently De Dakdokters are finding ways to use roofs for water retention to help cities manager their waterflow when there is a lot of rain. Amongst others, Luuk Verlint shared about the fluidity of design pr