Inspired by the interesting planters that populate Autodesk's Pier 9 office, I sought to create my own version of the office planter on a micro scale. My goal was to allow plants to flourish in the most unlikely of places — tiny crevices between desks.

(You can read my original blogpost about this project for Autodesk's 123D here.)

You will need:

Air plants (I chose Scaposa Kolbii because they are hearty yet whimsical.)
Access to the interwebs (for 123D Design)
3D printer

Step 1: Design Your Planters

I made mine on the online version of 123D Design. I made a number of iterations (especially with spheres and triangles) but found the square planters to be the most durable and aesthetically pleasing.

To make your planters:

Select a box from the primitives sidebar. Size it to roughly 20mm x 20 x 20.
Go to the sketches panel and create a rectangle sketch 18 x 18.
With the sketch selected, find the extrude tool in the gear menu that pops up and push the sketch down to roughly -18.
Make a second box. This will be used to secure your planter in the crevice, so make sure you measure the crevice beforehand. I found that the space between desks was somewhere around 5mm so I made my second box 35 x 5 x 5.
Position the second box roughly in the center of the face of the first box opposite the hole. Group both boxes.
Go back to primitives and crate a cone with a radius of half of your second box. Position it at the end of your second box and group the entire thing.
Export for printing.