Smart greenhouse allows plants to grow in Prague metro station
Added on 01 February 2024
When you walk into the typically grey and concrete entrance hall to the green ‘A’ line at Můstek station, you will see that it is now not only the metro line on the map that is green. A new installation, Project “Metrorost”, designed by scientists from the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) working with the Prague public transport company (DPP), brings a little slice of nature into the artificially lit and mechanical caverns of the Prague metro system.
The structure inside which the plants are placed has a purposefully irregular and unusual shape, explains Josef Haber from ČVUT’s University Centre for Energy-Efficient Buildings (UCEEB).
“We tried to design the installation so that it seems to come out of the wall into the space, and to make it kind of shocking, in its own way. We decided to make a contrast between the vegetation, which doesn’t have a lot of sharp edges, and the shape of the construction around it, which does.”
The plants are housed in a smart greenhouse, which is specially designed to be durable and for the plants to require as little human care as possible. The greenhouse monitors and measures all the things that the plants need to survive, says Daniel Adamovský, another scientist from ČVUT.
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