Iron Camping Gear · 2024
Escape Camping Kitchen System
by Xun Peng
- A' Design Award 2024 in Camping Gear
- CLIENT: Xiamen University of Technology
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 29,220
- Verification code AD145E19F6 · Verify this award
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About Escape Camping Kitchen System
Escape is a portable camping kitchen system designed for outdoor meal preparation. The design is based on observation of camping cooking behavior, which showed that handling and operation were often difficult. Escape stays compact in the folded state for easy transport and is unfolded for use at the camping site. Five functional modules are integrated: a storage area, a meal preparation area, a cooking area, a second storage area and a dining area. Ergonomics was considered throughout, and camping users tested the design to refine the layout.
About the A' Design Award
Escape Camping Kitchen System is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Escape Camping Kitchen System is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Escape Camping Kitchen System is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- Escape is a portable all-in-one camping kitchen system designed based on the user's camping kitchen behavior, ensuring a comfortable and smooth experience. The kitchen system is available in both folded and unfolded states. Folded for easy transportation and unfolded for use when needed. The system integrates five functional modules: storage area, meal preparation area, cooking area, storage area and dining area, which meet the needs of users during the camping and cooking process.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The dimensions of the product take full account of ergonomics. The size of the product when the lid is closed is: 1285mm x 470mm x 900mm; the size of the product when the lid is open is: 1765mm x 470mm x 900mm.
- Tags
- Camping, Camping kitchen system, Camping equipment, Outdoor kitchen system, User behavior
- Production Technology
- In the pre-design stage, interviews and observations of camping users are conducted to understand the explicit and implicit needs of users in the process of camping meals and kitchens, and the Kano model is applied to analyze the needs to get the priority of users' needs in the process of camping meals and kitchens, and the design is carried out in accordance with this. In the design process, ergonomics is fully considered and users are invited to test the product to improve and optimize it.
- Design Challenge
- In terms of data collection means, this study mainly relies on more subjective qualitative research methods such as interviews and behavioral observations, and is limited to surveys of some user groups in limited camping scenarios, which may make the generalizability and representativeness of the results somewhat constrained.
- Research
- Type of research: research on camping kitchen system and product design based on user behavior analysis; Purpose: to improve the systematicity and user experience of camping kitchenware; Method: interview method, natural observation method, demand priority analysis method; Tools: questionnaire, AEIOU behavior analysis model (behavior, environment, interaction, object, user), Kano demand analysis model; Participants: camping enthusiasts; Results and Insights: improved systematization of camping kitchenware and solved problems in the camping kitchen process, improved user experience.
- Inspiration
- The project was designed based on the users' camping kitchen behavior. Through the observation of users' camping kitchen behavior, it was found that problems such as difficult handling and cumbersome operation were common. Therefore, the Escape Camping Kitchen System was designed to streamline and optimize the operation line of camping kitchens to solve the above pain points, significantly improving and enhancing the camping kitchen experience of users.
- Project Duration
- The project started in June 2023 in Xiamen and was finished in April 2024 in Xiamen.
- Operation Flow
- 1. pull Escape Camping Kitchen System to the camping place; 2. undo the clips at the back of the main body and take out the table board; 3. unfold the main body and the table board and make simple food preparation; 4. pull open the lid; 5. open the storage area and take out the set of pots and pans, expanding accessories, etc. in the storage area; 6. assemble the expanding accessories; 7. connect the gas canisters; 8. open the fire to make the cooking; 9. have the meal at the table board; 10. fold up for storage
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Designer Xun Peng, Escape, 2024.
Image #2: Designer Xun Peng, Escape, 2024.
Image #3: Designer Xun Peng, Escape, 2024.
Image #4: Designer Xun Peng, Escape, 2024.
Image #5: Designer Xun Peng, Escape, 2024.