PLANT LAB
IN COLLABORATION WITH: Morgan Petrovich, Rockne Hanish, Brian Gillett, Darryl Jones, Mike Cook, and Chris DeHenzel
LOCATION: San Francisco, California
IMAGE CREDITS: Team mentioned above
SAN FRANCISCO 2011 flower & garden show
The PLANTLAB is a volumetric field of edible plants, grown using hydroponic methods to expose and articulate the use of water in the “living California garden.” We produced vegetables in an indoor garden that does not rely on traditional methods of planting embedded in the earth. Rather than constructing a new ground, the garden is formed by a cloud of 432 suspended crystalline tubes and water distribution systems that allow visitors to circulate around the garden and inhabit the space beneath it. Each recyclable clear plastic tube contains a plant, an inorganic growing medium, and a connection to a drip irrigation system, which circulates nutrient infused water from a submersible pump in a reservoir.
