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Tentagon Inflatable Tent by Wei Chen and Chi-Yung Li Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Outdoor Gear and Camping Equipment Design
Wei Chen and Chi-Yung Li acknowledged for outdoor gear and camping equipment design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Outdoor Gear and Camping Equipment Design category for Tentagon Inflatable Tent by Wei Chen and Chi-Yung Li, designed for Tentagon. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Tentagon Inflatable Tent
Tentgaon is an inflatable tent with an triaxial structure. The appearance is based on a pentagonal belt watch, which is connected to the inner tent through the left and right inclined angles, and uses gravity to achieve a balance between the inner tent and the air column. Tentagon create a classic shape with simple geometry, and at the same time appeal to life with different angles and faces. It hope users can bravely step out of the comfort zone and interpret the attitude of life!
About Wei Chen and Chi-Yung Li
The tentagon studio represented by Wei Chen and Chi-Yung Li. It is more familiar with sustainable design and product design. The works designed in the past have also won awards for sustainable design and product design. Currently, they are more focused on user research, through user analysis. To design each product, including tents of course, tentagon studio hopes to design products that are not only beneficial to the environment but also make users more comfortable to use, and improve society through design.
Award Record
With this recognition, Wei Chen and Chi-Yung Li is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Camping Gear and Outdoor Equipment Design Award
The A' Camping Gear Design Award is an international industrial design competition recognizing good camping equipment by leading brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to camping gear designers, outdoor equipment designers, product designers and industrial design studios from all countries. Entries typically include tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, camping stoves, lanterns and multi-tools. Awarded camping gear designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/camping-gear
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/139808
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139808
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139808
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/330653
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Tentagon Inflatable Tent
- Function
- Inflatable Tent
- Category
- Outdoor Gear and Camping Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sports
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dim Gray, Gainsboro and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Tentagon
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Chen and Chi-Yung Li
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #139808
Credits
- Team
- Chi Yung Li, Wei Chen and Yu Chih Chang
- Image Credits
- Creator Wei Chen , Chi-Yung Li ,2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Tentagon is a two person lightweight tent with an inflatable frame, mainly for beginners in camping. Compared with the inflatable tents on the market, tentagon is lighter and more technical. It adopts innovative three-axis air column technology, which subverts the previous one axis technology on the market, so that the overall tent frame has a better supporting structure. It is also made of environmentally friendly fabrics.
- Inspiration
- In the past, tents with metal brackets were not convenient enough for camping beginners to assemble and store. Therefore, we used an inflatable technology to design the tent. However, the current inflatable tents on the market all use one-axis technology. Technology is limited in appearance and structural stability, so we designed tentagon and used high frequency sealing processing technology to manufacture inflatable frame.
- Research
- Type of Research:Traditional Tent Use Feedback Research Objectives: Expect to find the problems of traditional tent design and improve them. Research methods: First collect data, and then start to summarize the problems of traditional tents. Use of Internet and physical questionnaires to collect data. The experimental results show that as many as 80 percent of novice campers feel that the current commercial tents are very inconvenient to build and store. Quick build and simple storage steps are the main needs at present.
- Challenge
- When designing tentagon, the most challenging thing is the design of the inflatable shaft structure. The three-axis inflatable structure must be considered in terms of angles, manufacturing procedures, design, etc. As long as a problem is not dealt with, the inflatable structure will be deflated. , so we made many models for testing, and then we designed the most suitable structure for the triaxial air column.
- Realization and Technology
- The frame of the tentagon tent is made in an inflatable way. Using high frequency sealing technology, two pieces of nylon fabric are made by sealing and gluing through high temperature and high pressure, and corresponding loops are added to the inflatable column. The fabric of the inner and outer tents is made of fabric with wind resistance, high waterproof coefficient and UV resistance, so that the whole tent can be used in severe climate environment.
- Operation and Interaction
- Tentagon can be inflated within 2 minutes, and the user only needs to fill the inflatable frame to complete the construction. In addition to setting up, the one-piece tent is also more convenient and quick to pack up. The overall shape of the tent is represented by a pentagon, which is connected to the inner tent through the left and right inclined angles, and uses gravity to achieve a perfect balance between the inner tent and the air column.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in July 2021, completed in January 2022, and completed the design of the second edition in March, which will be exhibited at Young Designers’ Exhibition in Taiwan in June 2022.
- Specifications
- Tent dimension Width 1800mm x length 3000 mm x Height 1800 mm Bag dimension Width 300 mm x length 600 mm x Height 270 mm
- Keywords
- Inflatable , Camping , Outdoor , Lightweight , Tent
