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!

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…

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!

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 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!

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’:

Firstly, we have established our budget for the production of both Plant Rooms! This is a fantastic achievement as we can now ask for some solid sponsorship with an accurate document to back our enquiries. The budget even includes the worms for our worm farms!

Secondly, our relationship with Product Spec is officially active. We now have some clear answers on specific materials needed for production and some security in knowing what we can obtain and what else we need to source.

Plant Room member, Jess, has been employed by Victoria University to be our official Project Manager. Jess will play an important role in overseeing every step of the Plant Room and being our ‘public face’. We will have a Plant Room team page up on our site soon, so you can find out more about Jess and other key members of the Plant Room team.

We are hoping to secure Aro St as an initial location for the container. In the meantime, Jesse and Tim have provided McAllister Heights and our glazing contractor with more drawings. We still need to confirm whether the glazing will be modified in order to install the Plant Room. We are looking for contractor sponsorship for the removal of the Plant Room and for the reinstallation of the glazing after the 2 year period.

This brings us to SPONSORSHIP! With our budget in place we now need to make connections with local businesses that are interested in sponsoring the Plant Room. We are all racking our brains to put together a list of people and/or companies to approach to make the Plant Room a reality. If you are interested in helping the Plant Room, contact us.