Roofscapes is a startup from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. The company was founded in 2020 by MIT graduate students Tim Cousin, Olivier Faber, and Eytan Levi with the mission of transforming untapped rooftops into green roofs as a way to mitigate the effects of climate change and to provide new outdoor spaces in cities. Roofscapes was incubated at the MIT DesignX accelerator and was awarded first prize upon completion. After receiving an award from the Ministry of Ecology in the Hackathon Renov’Action, Roofscapes joined Urban Lab, the City of Paris’ laboratory for urban innovation. Recently, Roofscapes has won the “Paris Resilient Innovation” grant, which will support the implementation of a pilot project in the capital.

Tim, Olivier, and Eytan met back in 2014 as they started architecture school together at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. After further studies between ETH Zurich and the University of Tokyo, they worked in various architectural practices in the UK, Japan, Switzerland, Denmark, India, and Australia, including Junya Ishigami in Tokyo, Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, COBE in Copenhagen, and Rahul Mehrotra in Mumbai. Tim, Olivier, and Eytan decided to finish their education together at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where they studied between the Department of Architecture and the Center for Real Estate.