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Home furnishing giant Ikea is taking its ‘self assembly’ packaging style to new heights with this multi-tier garden kit. Best of all, anyone can download the instructions for free over the internet.
Space10, Ikea’s own lab that focuses on creating experimental product design, collaborated with architects Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrik Husum to develop the open source plans for The Growroom – a multi-tier spherical garden that offers ample space for growing plants and vegetables in outdoor areas with limited spaces.
According to the team, the objective of The Growroom is to encourage community gardening in the city. In Singapore, this also ties in with the concept of community garden spaces commonly seen in HDB estates. In addition, private homeowners can also consider downloading the plans to create their own Growrooms in their backyards.
Details:
Provided in the downloading kit for The Growroom are detailed drawings to cut out the various pieces of the garden from plywood and a 17-step instructional guide. Users will have to source for their own plywood materials as well as a local workshop that can help to cut out the necessary shapes.
Who is using The Growroom?
Shortly after its launch last week, plans are under way for The Growroom to be created in gardens around San Francisco, Rio de Habeiro, Helsinki and Taipei. The team hopes that there will also be upcoming news of Singaporean communities taking the initiative to try out The Growroom in their own estates.
“The Growroom ...is designed to support our everyday sense of well being in the cities by creating a small oasis or ‘pause’ architecture in our high paced societal scenery, and enables people to connect with nature as we smell and taste the abundance of herbs and plants. The pavilion, built as a sphere, can stand freely in any context and points in a direction of expanding contemporary and shared architecture,” says a spokesperson from Space10.
Game to start your own sphere garden? Download the plans here.
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