AUROVILLE GREEN PRACTICES
PROJECT BRIEF
Earthern plantation container design along with packaging. The planters should be user friendly and an aspirational product. It should encourage bringing in plantation into daily lifestyle of people.
KEY FEATURES
Elegant
Sophisticated
Earthern
Easy to mnufacture
EXPLORATIONS
Following features were experimented
Form
Size
Finish
Kitchen herbs were planted in each to get the perfect size, shape, finish and detailing suitable.
Final form and finish.
PACKAGING
1. Easy to mass produce without machines.
2. Easy to stack
3. Eco friendly
4. Packagin should reveal the product inside while displayed on the shelf
MATERIAL EXPLORATION
Handmade paper embedded with seeds for kitchen herbs was made in collaboration with Auroville paper industry. After many attemps on different pressure applied through hydraulic press machine, the desired paper was achieved.
The idea behind is, when unpacked, packagin paper can itself be discarded back into the same plant to grow herbs from.
Loose fibres of handmade paper permit the seeds to germinate easily. The paper can be sandwiched between soil or could be kept on the top layer of moist soil also.