Vitality Family Garden Composteira by Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu

Vitality Family Garden Composteira by Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Prata in Design Sustentável, Produtos e Projetos Ecológicos Competition Category.

PrataProduto Sustentável· 2021

Vitality Family Garden Composteira

by Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu

Client: Dopamine

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Produto Sustentável Category

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The Design

About Vitality Family Garden Composteira

O Vitality Family Garden é uma pequena composteira de interior concebida para processar os resíduos de cozinha domésticos. As minhocas colocadas no interior da caixa consomem os restos de alimentos e transformam-nos em fertilizante natural. Esse fertilizante é depois utilizado para cultivar vegetais em pequenos vasos de plantação. Uma lâmpada LED de cultivo apoia o crescimento das plantas em ambientes interiores, e os seus modos de iluminação são selecionados através de botões. O produto não é automatizado, pelo que a compostagem e o plantio são realizados pelo utilizador. O Vitality Family Garden reduz os odores da cozinha e devolve os resíduos alimentares a uma vida útil.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

Vitality Family Garden Composteira conquistou o A' Design Award de Prata, um reconhecimento extraordinariamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de topo de gama, deslumbrantes e impressionantes. Os vencedores da Prata são obras tremendamente brilhantes e extremamente criativas que ilustram a perícia, o talento e a acuidade excecionais dos seus designers. Espera-se que Vitality Family Garden Composteira seja uma obra maravilhosa e de referência, notavelmente profissional e profundamente inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata é uma invenção muito notável e admirada, que beneficia e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Vitality Family Garden Composteira é uma criação imensamente invejada que desperta desejos, traz sentimentos positivos e faz nascer espanto e deslumbramento.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Vitality is a small indoor compost bin, which solves the daily kitchen waste generated by the family, and use the natural fertilizer converted from the kitchen waste to grow vegetables.The design concept is to use earthworms, a common harmless creature, to eat food waste and produce compost for planting. Earthworms like to eat food waste, which not only eliminates the unpleasant smell of food waste at home, but the unique digestive system can also convert food waste into the nutritional value of fertilizer, which is used to provide better plants.
Dimensions & Packaging: box size: length 39 cm, width 15 cm, height 11 cm, planting lamp size: length 25 inside, height 13 cm, width 2.2 cm, planting pot size: length 7 cm, width 7 cm, height 5 cm
Tags: Compost Bin, Grow Box, Contemporary, Young
Production Technology: The indoor planting technology used in the product is quite mature, and the LED lighting supplement technology used is also suitable for mass production.
Design Challenge: The earthworm are a difficult group to control. They will escape the soil when the external environment is unstable. In the end, we got a lot of guidance information from insect biologists and agricultural planting experts.
Research: Literature review, observational studies and focus groups made to support the design process. Literature review data is documented in research documents submitted.
Inspiration: Food waste accounts for 46.2% of combustible waste, but each ton produces 0.3 tons of carcinogenic gas and a large amount of carbon dioxide. Traditional burial and incineration will not only pollute the land and air, but also waste food resources that should have been rationally used.
As one of the major categories of domestic waste, reasonable disposal of kitchen waste is an important issue in today's waste disposal.
Project Duration: Through the form of composting, the kitchen waste becomes an essential nutrient for plant growth, so that the discarded kitchen waste can be turned into delicious food again.The project was launched in Japan and China in December 2019. This is a 6-month experimental project that will end in June 2020.
Operation Flow: Control the lighting mode through the buttons. The product is not automated, and is designed to allow consumers to complete composting and planting activities independently. Earthworms and planting lights can help people better nurture and take care of their plants.
Team Members: Chaozhi Lin
Junjie Zhou
Yong Liu
Can Wang
Haitao Shi
Xudong Yang