IKEA’s Flat-Pack Garden

WORDS Cheri Morris

IKEA‘s external innovation hub, Space10, has made the design for their indoor flat-pack growroom available online. This indoor garden can be built with just 17 pieces of plywood.

Designed alongside Nordic designers Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrik Husum, the DIY spherical indoor garden is a beautiful form of food producing architecture and is intended for fast-paced city living where space is scarce and locally grown veggies and herbs even scarcer. The 2.8 x 2.5 metre structure is spatially efficient, as it grows vertically, yet also allows enough space for its owner to sit inside to admire the growth and peaceful garden sanctuary from within.

With an emphasis on the importance of switching to locally produced greens, this clever project enables urban dwellers to grow their own healthy and sustainable produce while encouraging a connection with nature and food awareness.

Following global requests to buy the scheme after its initial display at the Chart Art Fair in Copenhagen, the team decided that shipping the design large distances didn’t agree with their desire to promote local food production and chose to make the plans available online instead. You will need to cut the pieces of plywood with a CNC machine, laser cutter or table saw. Thereafter, all you need is a screwdriver, a rubber hammer and some nails.

View the open-source plans here.

(h/t) designboom.com