The Plant Room

Cut Bits Cut!

All the elements for the Plant Room screen have been cut thanks to our buddies WETA! Now the jigsaw puzzle begins as we hurtle toward the HOTHOUSE at the New Dowse.

Cheeky Diagrams

To illustrate the different functions of the Plant Room we have developed a set of diagrams (now we don;t have to talk so much!) Here’s one showing all the different aspects overlaid.

Plant Room Renders

Just in time for judging we have managed to produce some splendid visualisations of the Plant Room in-situ! Have a look below!

Construction Documentation

Check out the emerging construction documentation as it changes with inputs from all our consultants…

Plant Room distribution studies…

As a team we’re excited to see this project grow…and what better way to explore this than to visualise the many iterations of the project…as in - what would it look like en masse on a building!?!

Our clever wee CAD technicians behind the scenes have put together a few mock-ups of what they envision an existing building could look like with a bunch of Plant Rooms attached…

Check out the images below to see how AWESOME it would look! we can imagine some pretty amazing configurations of these things - and with all the greenery growing, woo - what a beautiful place to live!

Container Location

Hello!

Behold our Plant Room Container as it will look like on location!

We have committed to build two plant rooms, as well as The Plant Room fitted to an existing apartment building we are also building a transportable exhibition to communicate the ideas of sustainable building to the wider community. It will be fitted to a shipping container and exhibited at various locations around New Zealand. The container will also provide a location for events where the technologies and products used can be fully explained.

The Wellington City Council has allowed us the use of a small green space in Aro Valley, Wellington to build this exhibition! very exciting! we are a so much closer to this becoming a physical reality…

Colouring Competition

Hello dear readers!

Finally, you can dust off your crayons and dye, donn your art-shirt and get down and dirty in full technicolour! The first official Plant Room Colouring Competition has opened up and we want you to take part….

Just head on over to our Colouring Competition section, download the image, get doodling and get prepared to share your masterpiece with the world!

We accept both digital and print entries so you can either email or post in your entry - I’m pretty keen to see some sparkly collages!

Entries close 31st August AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT! SO GO GET YOUR ART ON!

Oh, and make sure you keep checking the Colouring Competition page to see other offerings as they arrive!

Blog updates

I thought I would pop up a quick note to let you know that I have added a few more awesome links to the right-hand navigation panel, check them out! There are some awesome projects in there, including my own personal favourite Rural Studio.

Also, I feel like it may be a little ambitious - but I have added a Archive section to the site. The plan is to go through the screeds and screeds of paper with all the little brainstorms and sketches from over the past year and share them with the world. Reduce, Re-Use and Recycle right?

For our first entry into the archive I have managed to hunt down the original video for our launch party, it’s a winner!

The Plant Room goes international!

We have entered The Plant Room into another competition, this one is for the Guggenheim in New York!

The competition is an extension of Learning By Doing, an exhibition in the Guggenheim Museum Sackler Center for Arts Education that features plans, photographs, and models of student-built shelters from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. For the past seven decades, students at this school have taken on the challenge of designing, building, and living in small shelters nestled in the landscapes of the school’s Arizona and Wisconsin campuses. In working on these shelters, students consider human needs for safety and comfort, as well as the relationship between architecture and place.

You can check out The Plant Room’s entry here!

It’s July already?!

Things have been a little quiet on the blog recently, however this just because we are busy beavering away pulling this amazing project together! The members of The Plantroom team are a busy bunch of people, most of us working or studying fulltime, which leaves us with only a precious amount of time to dedicate to the cause - however, we have been lucky enough to secure the wonderful Jess Bennett as our Project Manager to help push the project along as we pick up the pace and get this thing built by November!

We are actively seeking sponsorship to help us make this project a reality, so if you or anyone you know is keen to help us out, then please CONTACT US

As any good marketing campaign does these days, we are hitting the social networks - so please feel free to connect. These networks enable us to share more about the project on a regular basis, and i’m sure things are about to start to get really interesting so check us out! You can find us on Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter.

And for something even more exciting…I present to you a short animation of The Plantroom ‘in-situ’: