Smart Green Design: Indoor Vertical Gardening for Apartment Dwellers

Sometimes, windows just aren’t enough to grow anything but shade-loving plants. Depending on what side of the building your apartment is on – or whether it’s looking out into an alley or courtyard – you might not get anywhere near enough sun to keep plants alive. So, what’s a wannabe gardening urbanite to do?

If a new concept by Ingela Viks + Liina-Kai Raivet takes off, you’ll have a way to grow all kinds of stuff inside your apartment, even if you’re short on space. The ‘Green Indoors’ is a vertical planting system that provides both light and water to growing plants with space for up to 24 plant pots.

From Inhabitat:

We’ve seen other indoor growing lightpots, but they tend to take up precious counter space. The Green Indoors plant stand consists of a flat metal base fitted with a light filled tube with a matte cover to minimize glare. The stand not only provides necessary light, but also automatically waters each plant individually according to its needs. When there is enough natural light, the plant stand shuts off its light, and it also turns off automatically at night.

Since it provides light, it has a double function as a lamp with that daylight tinge that people in rainy regions can really appreciate. This concept was created as part of the Designboom/BÜSSEL design competition – we really hope it goes into production! Cool green design that brings fresh homegrown food to anyone regardless of where they live = awesome.

Link [Inhabitat]

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