银 可持续产品 · 2021
Vitality Family Garden 堆肥箱
by Chaozhi Lin, Junjie Zhou and Yong Liu
- A' Design Award 银奖 2021 in 可持续产品
- CLIENT: Dopamine
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 52,358
- Verification code B1567438D9 · Verify this award
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About Vitality Family Garden 堆肥箱
"活力家庭花园"是一款用于处理家庭厨余垃圾的小型室内堆肥箱。置于箱内的蚯蚓以食物残渣为食，并将其转化为天然肥料。所产生的肥料随后可用于在小型种植盆中栽培蔬菜。产品配备LED植物生长灯，为室内植物生长提供光照支持，并可通过按键切换不同的照明模式。该产品并非自动化设备，堆肥与种植过程均由使用者亲手完成。"活力家庭花园"能够减少厨余异味，让食物垃圾重新回归有用的生命循环。
About the A' Design Award 银奖
Vitality Family Garden 堆肥箱是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Vitality Family Garden 堆肥箱将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Vitality Family Garden 堆肥箱是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。
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- 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.
