Shape-Shifting ‘Origami’ Pots That Grow Together With Your Plants

Growth, innovative shape-shifting ‘Origami’ pots inspired by the Japanese art of origami grow with your plant, expanding to accommodate more soil and a more comprehensive root network. This design, by the London-based duo at Studio Ayaskan, aims to make plant pots more sustainable than ever.

“In nature, everything evolves, adapts, grows, blooms, degrades, dies, gets absorbed, reused,” the designers, Bike and Begum Ayaskan, told Contemporist. “The modern approach to building is the opposite. Objects go through stages: people produce, use, and discard them. Through its carefully calculated origami pattern, growth mimics nature’s ability to grow and transform by unfolding over time, bringing these qualities to the manufactured object.

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“We are both very passionate about nature,” Begum and Bike Alaskan told us. “We were drawn to the opportunity to narrate a story between an object and its inhabitant, an indoor planter and a plant).”

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“We were very much interested in the interaction the two had with each other. We wanted to show that even a simple home decor object, like a plant pot, could be improved and changed by understanding its life cycle and implementing behavior patterns through geometry and structure.”

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“The indoor plant pots are made up of polypropylene. A mesh of the same material is attached to the base, allowing the water to drain. The facades of the pot are then folded into its initial stage, ready for a plant to be potted. The material is very resilient.”

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“To come up with the correct origami pattern, we initially started by experimenting with many origami patterns. Once we chose the pattern we were working with, we had to figure out the trigonometry behind the shape, so we calculated the ratios that would give us the exact shape we wanted.”

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“We are currently discussing with manufacturers to get this clever design into production. We aim to have them ready in the next few months and add a few new colors.”

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