tevaplanter rethinks indoor pots without the use of soil or dirt

The core idea for tevaplanter was to create a new home for plants. It needed to be simple, clean, low-maintenance, and hydroponic – without the use of any soil or dirt. Combining the idea of hydroponics and the concept of porous material was the key.

The designers created a proprietary ceramic material that has just the right amount of porosity and hygroscopic tendencies to allow water to diffuse through the material and allow the plant to grow on the surface of the material.

Just fill terraplanter with water and the plant will take only what it needs to visibly grow & flourish on the exterior surface of the planter creating beautiful compositions.

The team behind tevaplanter wanted to design an innovative solution that was aesthetically beautiful but it also needed to serve a function; it needed to be a good home for plants. For this they needed to produce a complex shape for the surface of the pot to meet the needs of the plants.

It needed to:

• Hold seeds on the surface while they sprout.
• Hold water for plant roots to drink.
• Provide a shape and texture that would allow plant roots to grip the surface.

In order to bring the product to life, the designers used parametric design to create the shape they envisioned, and created several prototypes to test with seeds and plants.

After testing they looked for ways to improve the product and refined the algorithm and design to get to the optimal solution for plants to thrive. The tevaplanter is a vessel that acts as a water bank. The water is held in the vessel and is slowly diffused through the material to the cells on the surface for the plant to drink.