The features, facts and figures…

• Rooftop garden will provide produce for the kitchen and bar and will use energy efficient LED grow-lights to stimulate the growth of plants due to the largely shaded site

• Drip irrigation will water garden. Water used on rooftop garden will filter through soil and sand and collect in the bottom of Schutz bins to be re-used.

• Water from kitchen and bar will be recycled

• Worm farm holding thousands of worms will process organic waste from the bar and kitchen and will also provide rich vermicast for use on the garden

• Products and material used in the operation of the premises will be sourced locally and consideration will be given to their sustainability, practicality and life-cycle

• Straw bales will insulate the building to keep a stable temperature without the need for large cooling or heating systems

• The bar top will be made from recycled plywood from the floor of the Greenhouse by Joost. Rubber floor on rooftop from recycled car tyres. Cushions in seating made from natural latex with kangaroo leather covering. Ice buckets made from old gas cylinders, fencing wire light-shades, reclaimed plastic palettes set in 70% recycled concrete, etc

• The Greenhouse will have a licensed capacity of 120 people

• There will be approximately 7 tonnes of steel in the Greenhouse’s frame and over 40,000 screws holding this frame in place. The frame will support approximately 7 tonnes of weight, including the rooftop garden, which will include herbs, vegetables, fruit trees and plants housed in discarded Schutz DSL Ecobulk liquid bins (to allow for re-use of excess garden water runoff), a native beehive for pollination and producing honey, and a worm farm for recycling organic waste from the kitchen and bar

• The Greenhouse will have around 420 straw bales in its walls and ceiling

• The exterior of the building will be clad in corrugated iron covered by a vertical garden with 4000 terracotta pots filled with strawberry plants

• Furniture (designed by Joost Bakker) will include tables made from the plywood floor of the Greenhouse by Joost (Federation Square, Melbourne 2008-09), chairs made from old road signs, bar stools/tables made from wafer board recycled from old wooden palettes, and light shades made from reclaimed fencing wire.