The Vert plant

Rationale

The storage system I have designed and created was the vertplant. This design is influenced in its own biomorphic and biometric ways. Many cliff sides have plants continuing to survive even though they are in such hard to reach places.

When I was thinking of what people in high density housing may need I realized that due to lack of outdoor area and soil they tend to lack their necessary home grown produce, especially for things such as herbs and other additives to meals. This led to me wanting to think of a method of growing their own produce, yet making the most of little area.

When doing my research on high density housing I notice it usually consists of 1-3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen, 1 TV/dining area, and a small balcony. Of all these areas I gathered that the balcony is the area that gets the most sunlight. From knowing this I knew where the placement of the produce had to be, the balcony.

I then had to figure out a way to make the most space of this balcony area. I then discovered plants that grow up cliffs, vertically, they make the most out of little area yet are still available to get the necessary sunlight and water, and this gave me the idea of a vertical plantation.

After looking at cliff sides with more depth, I discovered numerous biometric methods I could adopt. I noticed how a lot of the plants throughout the cliff tend to share the same soil, I added this to my design as it allows the plants to share nutrients and share water easier. From looking at cliff sides I also noticed that plants get all their sunlight from being hung over, using this I discovered that the exact same method can be used in a balcony area. Then I also noticed how water tends to drip down the side of the cliff, one way or another managing to get to every plant, I then adopted this method for my own design, allowing all the plants to get their water from dripping off from other plants.

When it came to biomorphism I used the method within a cliff of the plants being vertical, another crucial thing that I noticed is that the location of the plants are generally randomized, depending on the flow of the water, due to this I made the location of the plants on my design rather random to suite the feel of a cliff side. I had also noticed that the rock formation on the sides of the cliff, although the plants need soil to grow, the cliff needs rock to stay upright, so using this aspect I added some rock like formation on the side to give a feel of biomorphism.