Here’s a rendering of our final brackets. We chose to go with a fleur de lis insignia, but conceivably it could be any shape as long as it has the two hooks for hanging the troughs and the tab for mounting in wet mortar.
so this bracket is ready to install on any surface.
and this bracket shows that the tab can be modified to be integrated into any building material, be it brick and mortar or even prefab panels
So after building the models in Mary’s technical drawings, we realized a couple of things. First of all, our project is going in a good direction that could easily become a real product. Our models showed us that our ideas are legitimate, and with a little more development will be a great level for a Junior design project. Our system is now going to have a molded trough, either out of a plastic or sheet metal, capped on the ended with blocks that allow for horizontal modularity. The end caps are the structure that attaches to our wall bracket. The wall bracket right now is in the shape of a fleur de lis, but once we figure out our mounting system this could conceivably be in any form. Our group is real happy with the system we have developed, and we feel that we have addressed almost every issue that has come up.
This is a bracket for hanging our modular grow boxes. It is designed so that it can be installed during the construction of a wall or post construction. For installation during construction, you bend the inner tab back at a 90 degree and lay it into the wet mortar between bricks or cinderblocks. For post construction, you simply secure it to the wall using masonry anchors through the holes in the bracket. The grow box is hung from the hook. The fleur de lis insignia ensures that even when a grow box isn’t installed, the bracket still adds ornament to an otherwise drab wall.
Here are a series of concepts for modular vertical planters. Modeled in Rhino, these are explorations of form.
