GardenTower.

Hanging garden for small rooms

Course: ID200 · Sheet metal
Year: 2025

Render of a GardenTower module in a green room by the window, a fern on its shelf

Stacking sheet-steel modules that hang from the ceiling and grow plants in the space student rooms never use.

Brief

Design a product made with standard sheet-metal processes: laser cutting, bending and welding.

Idea

Student rooms have no floor to spare, but the space overhead is empty. GardenTower hangs from the ceiling, so the load goes into the structure, not your desk, and you add modules as your plants grow. Every edge you can touch has a 20 mm radius.

Process

I worked out the bends and the triangular cut pattern in paper and card before going to CAD. Then came a parametric SolidWorks sheet-metal assembly with flat patterns, GA and exploded drawings, and Visualize renders. My group developed the DaLi brand around it.

Full-height photo of the three stacked modules — Three modules, hung.

The steel GardenTower hanging with trailing plants — Planted.

Render of three modules stacked, the triangular laser-cut pattern catching light — Render of the stack.

Paper prototype of two modules, testing the cut pattern and bends — Paper prototype.

Cardboard prototype held up to test the stacking joint — Card prototype for the stacking joint.

Poster

Poster.