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Ikea introduces amazing flat-pack indoor garden
This is the Growroom, a spherical garden made from plywood that you can now build at home, after the instructions were made available to download for free this month.
It's been designed so it can be easily assembled, accessible and affordable for most communities. It was conceived as a means of encouraging consumption of locally-grown food, reducing food miles and the environmental impact involved in shipping food across the world.
The Growroom is the work of SPACE10, a "future-living lab" supported by Ikea that, according to its website, "serves as an external innovation hub for Ikea to get inspired, gain fresh perspectives, and discover new talents and ideas to invest in and bring forward."
SPACE10 worked with architects Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrik Husum to create what they describe as a "urban farm pavilion."
In a Medium post they say: "It 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.
"The overlapping slices ensure that water and light can reach the vegetation on each level, without reaching the visitor within and thereby functions as a growth activator for the vegetation and shelter for the visitor."