SINE LINDHOLM

THE GROWROOM

(2016) Open Source Design in Collaboration with Mads-Ulrik Husum and SPACE10
Visit webpage for more information: https://www.husumandlindholm.com/
https://space10.com/space10-open-sources-the-growroom/

Download the files here: https://github.com/space10-community/the-growroom

There has never been a greater focus on how we produce our food, treat our environment and share our economy, like there is today. On the basis of a spatial experimentation with the urban farming concept, we strive towards creating architecture where atmosphere and sensuousness acts as the primary design factors, to generate poetic spaces with a sense of tranquility. 
We have focused on the growing ideologies: local production (maker-movement) and sharing-culture. These movements are starting to challenge the way we think about products, design and architecture. With the shared data (open source) movement a new worldview has occurred that challenges many of our conventional ideas about patent and ownership. Which changes the way we think about products, design and architecture. Architects play an important and responsible role in this context because designs must now operate on very different parameters than before.
In the city structure Growroom is marking this focus and points in a direction of expanding temporary and shared architecture. It enhances our awareness by offering a different kind of ‘oasis’ or ‘pause’-architecture in the high paced societal scenery. 
Growroom expands the opportunities of use-, sensuous- and visual-potentials of the urban farming movement, by experimenting with spatiality and inclusion as a part of the floating cityscape. The visitor is being invited into an intimate world where only the visitors and vegetation co-exist.

DESIGN
The pavilion, built as a simple sphere, invokes the idea of a vibrant cosmos – a green globe. The visitor shares the same seat as the plants; in this sense people and vegetation are equals and coexist in the same cycle.
By working with the shape of a sphere in designing a pavilion, it becomes an inviting space activator, able to stand freely in any context. 
The horizontal division of the pavilion emphasizes the life and growth of plants. The overlapping slices ensure that water and light can reach the vegetation on each level, without reaching the visitor within. Hereby coexistence is created, as the pavilion functions as a growth activator for the vegetation and shelter for the visitor.