By Jessica Stewart on June 28, 2020

IKEA is looking toward the future with a fresh home design. Located in a 120-year-old abandoned building in Poland, the IKEA Home of Tomorrow is an innovative look at city living. Through the incorporation of nature, the team behind the design is teaching the public how to live more sustainably in a zero-waste environment.

By thinking of the home as a living organism, the design connects the spaces by circulating waste, water, food, and other resources. Over 600 plants filled the 2,700-square-foot space, which was conceived by Polish designers Joanna Jurga, Paulina Grabowska, and Justyna Puchalska. They took inspiration from research by IKEA that estimates that 70% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. As a response, they are showing the public how city living can still mean being in touch with nature.

Herbs, vegetables, fruit, and fungi are all grown within the space to show how food cultivation can happen in an urban setting. By employing different types of gardening—from hydroponics to soil-less agriculture—they are able to easily demonstrate a wide range of possibilities.[…]

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