[15] Urban rooftops dwellers.

An examples of roof-habitation can be found all over the world. From beehives and football pitches to driving schools and swimming pools, humans are slowly beginning to move upwards and make a usage of an enormous possibilities that lay above our heads. They are mostly privately built dwellings which are the extensions of the building’s last floor but that’s only a start. Some architects like Werner Aisslinger have come up with solutions like LoftCube which is basically a portable house whose weight had been calculated for transport by helicopter. FPS Architecture perch a prefab metal container on the roof and connected it to the main house via a set of stairs, creating an economic and ecologic extension of a designer's workshop.

Beekeeping

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/07/urban-beekeeping

http://www.life.com/animals-pictures/88790911/urban-beekeeping-on-east-london-rooftops

Buenos aires

http://weburbanist.com/2010/01/28/going-up-radical-subversive-urban-rooftop-dwellings/?ref=search

LoftCube

http://www.loftcube.net/main.html

Hong Kong rooftops communities

http://peperoni-books.de/portraits_from_above.html

Warehouse Rooftop in Bradford by Kraus + Schoenberg.

Gap between two Victorian warehouses in Yorkshire by Kraus + Schoenberg.

Family home in London by Richard Rogers.

http://weburbanist.com/2011/03/04/lofty-living-11-modern-additions-to-urban-rooftops/

Skyroom by David Kohn Architects

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/10/13/skyroom-by-david-kohn-architects/

Olympic hotel. Room for london by Design Initiatives 

http://weburbanist.com/2010/12/31/a-room-for-london-cloud-shaped-temporary-rooftop-hotel/