Benefits of Anti-Erosing Matting

Juha Sarviaho: My Name is Juha Sarviaho and I’m an industrial designer.

The Problem

And we were traveling with my wife and we saw lots of dessert areas and
it’s just very dry and they taught that what could be the cultural use for
this desert areas.

Finland

We have in Finland we have different kind materials, wood and pit areas
and all kinds of base as coming so we thought we could put them together
in a carpet and start to grow things in the carpet.

The Idea

Magic Carpet

The Inspiration

In this forest as you can see here when I come down it has got here in the
forest in the think carpet it’s a natural carpet and the carpet is about 4 or 5
cm and under it we have this sand, stones, almost nothing like in Sahara.

The Research

After two days we made some experiments because we have this first
experiment was behind here.

The Principle

We have this one the first carpet experiments. We have peat, wood, and
other things mixed in of spot and then we put seed on it, grass and
everything and then we put the other box of peat and other materials on it
and we can get a sandwich structure and the production it has caused more
thinner and we can roll it in a carpet.

The Design

This a mono or mocap from carpet. Here sticks or bake in it so that it
keeps the carpet in the crowd in the sand and depending also how dry the
area is and what is the areas, we have to also water it. We have to get
water somewhere.

So we can use this solar energy for pumping the water.

We have to start a project with we can say what is the best materials
maybe after one year we have results and then the carpet flies.

Materials Development

In Finland we have 60 persons of our countries swamps and the swamps
are not sustainable. If you start peat production maybe 5 or 10 years and
then you have to go to some other place so maybe we have to think some
other alternatives for example reefs for the carpets.

I think we are very caught in recycling in Finland and this is a rubbish
camp and this is bio waste and you can see its growing all kinds of things,
pumpkins, potatoes, and it’s very good material for carpet. It has compost
over a year. The only problem is that it might cover inside it heavy metals.

This company here makes –which is base paper—and produce with an
installation purposes and we could use this material also with magic carpet
doing – it’s very nice material.

This is timber works in finish forest whereby oh and the machine is
popping in the wood and after stripping we have top part of the wood.
They leave this part of wood in the forest in the bushes and it takes many
years to decompose them and we could use this material after making it
wood chips we could use this in magic carpet.

I believe in this product 100%. It’s going to work.