Project Description:

Sky Parks is a research and demonstration project that reimagines existing rooftops as vital ecological and social infrastructure. Developed by Studio Georgouras in collaboration with the NSW Department of Planning and Environment, UNSW Built Environment, and the Gujaga Foundation, the project transforms an underutilised rooftop on the UNSW campus into a living laboratory for climate adaptation, biodiversity and community engagement.

The project explores how lightweight, modular green roof systems can retrofit existing buildings to reduce surface temperatures, capture stormwater and support native plant communities. Through planting design informed by local ecology and cultural knowledge, Sky Parks demonstrates how even constrained urban surfaces can host habitat and contribute to broader resilience goals.

As both a prototype and a teaching tool, the project provides a framework for integrating living infrastructure into dense urban contexts — showing that meaningful greening doesn’t require new land, only new ways of seeing the spaces we already have.