Paper Title
Study on Selection of Area For Terrace Garden

Abstract
In today's urban environment high rise buildings, parking areas, network of roads have acquired major urban land. In such congested environment rooftop and terrace of buildings provide a valuable potential source of outdoor space accessible to users of building. Need of terrace gardens has increased with increasing number of high rise buildings which deprive their occupants of any visual contact with nature. Terrace gardens bring back the missing link between man and nature though on a moderate scale. The factors which make roof gardens important part of architecture throughout the world is:- • Full use of terrace, which is normally a discarded area in crowded cities. Maximum meaningful use of minimum available space. • An economical way of balancing green space with uncontrolled growth of cement structure in urban areas. • They provide additional insulation to building. The trend of terrace garden is not new, for centuries it has been common to use rooftops as a living space/Recreational space. •The first known historical reference to a roof garden is the stone temples in the region of Mesopotamia . Civilizations in Mesopotamia built roof gardens thousands of years ago on the landings of Ziggurats, or stepped pyramids. The next known successor to the roof gardens are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon built by the Persians around the 500 B.C . The roof gardens along with being a visual delight cooled the hot landscapes and provided greenery. Keywords - Environment, terrace , garden, roof gardens ,green space .