Advances in Environmental Biology, 9(4) March 2015, Pages: 79-81 AENSI Journals Advances in Environmental Biology ISSN-1995-0756 EISSN-1998-1066 Journal home page: http://www.aensiweb.com/AEB/ Corresponding Author: Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos, Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Design and Architecture, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia E-mail: mohdyazid@upm.edu.my Residents’ Preference Towards Rooftop Garden: A Case of The Heritage Condominium, Selangor Neda Jafari, Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos and Osman Mohd Tahir Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Design and Architecture, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: Received 12 October 2014 Received in revised form 26 December 2014 Accepted 1 January 2015 Available online 17 February 2015 Keywords: Preference, Rooftop Garden, Function Rooftop garden system can become an absorbing. Also, rooftop gardens have positive impact on residents. In addition, urbanization has brought about a number of challenges such as greater ambient noise, increased environmental stressors and information overload. The aesthetic value of rooftop garden is considered important in cities where roof escapes are dominated by gray color and unattractive structures. The instant objective of this research was to examine the resident’s preference of function of rooftop garden. The preferences of function of rooftop garden are examined. In this research a method presented quantitative - survey questionnaire distributed among of residents in The Heritage condominium in Selangor. The result is towards recognition of preference to elevate sustainable building and promoting the usage of rooftop gardening residential building. In conclusion most of participants release positive correlation with having rooftop garden in their living area. Furthermore, this study help to residents for receive a perfect environmental in their live area. © 2015 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved. To Cite This Article: Neda Jafari, Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos and Osman Mohd Tahir., Residents’ Preference Towards Rooftop Garden: A Case of The Heritage Condominium, Selangor. Adv. Environ. Biol., 9(4), 79-81, 2015 INTRODUCTION Nowadays, Urbanization has brought about a number of challenges such as greater ambient noise, increased environmental stressors and information overload. This has led to increasing incidences of Direct Attentional Fatigue contributing to increase stress and mental fatigue among urban residents [1]. Also, urbanization is related to increasing greenhouse gas emissions from increased energy expenditures in rapidly expanding cities [1]. Roof gardens are an important technology and planning tool that can be used to help urban center to respond to the climate changes and improves urban environmental quality [2]. Excessive runoff has the positive effect on flooding and it increases the chance of damage to the property and people. In addition, a high volume of storm water runoff can come to municipal sewer systems. As a result, roof garden or green roof reduces volume of storm water runoff [2]. Roof garden can sequester carbon and for this reason, the selection of plant is very important because some plants have different effect on the roof. Also, light absorption and reflection are different in each plant [2]. Moreover, roof garden tends to experience lower surface temperature than the original exposed roof surface. In areas well covered by vegetation, over 60% of heat gain was prevented by the implementation of green roof system[2]. This technology can reduce heat flux. For example, the temperature of downstairs in a building with roof garden has been noted as 10 degrees Celsius lower than other buildings which lack the roof gardens [2]. In addition, Roof garden or green roof decreases transport heat (both into and out of the building), besides it can reduce consumption of energy for heating and cooling. Moreover, roof garden provides that facility to reduce 2% of electricity consumption and 9-11% of natural gas consumption. Roof gardens can reduce the heat island [2]. Roof garden or green roof is a roof with vegetative cover, trees, shrubs, grass and even frat vegetable that can be used as natural environment in an urban setting [3]. Many roof gardens include five or six layers on top of the building where each layer contains a waterproof membrane, a protective layer, the growing medium vegetation materials and irrigation system [4]. Roof garden is inclusive of two forms i.e. extensive is between 50