Borrowing stylistically from post-Soviet architecture, Russian industrial designer Maxim Scherbakov’s modular Plantscape explores the concept of plants surviving in environments unsuitable for plant life.

Created with Alexey Galkin, co-designer at their St. Petersburg studio Plan-S23, Plantscape is a nod to the urban landscape where materials like cement and steel structures dominate plant life.

Scherbakov and Baharev’s limestone and brass modular urban planters simulate these urban conditions that are not inherently conducive to growing things.

Photos: Alexey Galkin. Via Behance, h/t Trendland.