Shadow Chức năng chính: Chăn cứu sinh đa chức năng by Xudong Cai

Shadow Chức năng chính: Chăn cứu sinh đa chức năng by Xudong Cai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Sắt in Thiết kế Thiết bị Bảo hộ Competition Category.

SắtThiết bị Bảo hộ· 2020

Shadow Chức năng chính: Chăn cứu sinh đa chức năng

by Xudong Cai

Client: Dongguan Whale Design Technology Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award Sắt Winner in Thiết bị Bảo hộ Category

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The Design

About Shadow Chức năng chính: Chăn cứu sinh đa chức năng

Nội dung sách: Shadow là một chiếc chăn cứu sinh đa chức năng được thiết kế để giúp đỡ những người phải di dời do xung đột, biến đổi khí hậu và các tình huống khẩn cấp khác. Shadow kết hợp ba chức năng: một thiết bị hỗ trợ nổi, một tấm chăn giữ ấm và một túi ngủ đơn giản. Miếng bọt biển tạo lực nổi bên trong sản phẩm cung cấp khoảng 90 newton lực nâng đỡ trong nước, và lớp lót chống thấm bên trong giúp giữ khô các giấy tờ quan trọng. Lớp lót màng nhôm phản chiếu nhiệt cơ thể để duy trì độ ấm. Công nghệ hàn nhiệt tần số cao giúp sản phẩm bền chắc và không thấm nước. Các dây thun đàn hồi cho phép gấp gọn nhanh chóng để mang theo và mở ra nhanh chóng khi cần sử dụng.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Sắt

Shadow Chức năng chính: Chăn cứu sinh đa chức năng là người chiến thắng giải thưởng A' Design Award Sắt, một sự công nhận danh giá dành cho các thiết kế tốt đáp ứng các yêu cầu chuyên môn và công nghiệp được kỳ vọng từ các sáng tạo được thiết kế tốt. Những người chiến thắng giải Sắt thể hiện kỹ năng tuyệt vời, chuyên môn hóa cao, sự thấu hiểu chuyên gia và năng lực sáng tạo của người tạo ra chúng. Shadow Chức năng chính: Chăn cứu sinh đa chức năng được kỳ vọng là một sáng tạo được đánh giá cao, ngưỡng mộ và trân trọng, thực tế và đổi mới. Thiết kế chiến thắng giải thưởng A' Design Award Sắt này tích hợp các thực hành tốt nhất của ngành và có các đặc tính kỹ thuật thành thạo gắn liền với bí quyết và tài năng. Shadow Chức năng chính: Chăn cứu sinh đa chức năng được kính trọng vì sự kỹ lưỡng và được thiết kế để mang lại những cải thiện chất lượng cuộc sống giúp biến thế giới thành một nơi tốt đẹp hơn.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Regional conflicts, climate and other reasons have forced many people living a stable life to become refugees.The starting point of this design is to help refugees improve their ability to deal with extreme events. It has many functions such as life blanket, life jacket, simple sleeping bag and so on. It can meet the basic needs of people in the process of migration, and improve the chance of survival.We hope this product will accompany people like a shadow and help people if necessary.
Dimensions & Packaging: Folded state:500*200*150
Expanded state:2000*1500*5
Tags: Refugee，Life blanket，Keep warm，Sleeping bag，Buoyancy aid
Production Technology: This product is aimed at the refugee phenomenon in the world today. By designing methods, this product is helpful to the lives of refugees, hoping to improve the ability of the public to resist unknown dangers. And increase the public's attention and understanding of this group and reflect the social responsibility of designers.During the production process, high-frequency heat-sealing technology is used to ensure that the product is strong and tight so that no water can penetrate into the product.
Design Challenge: In the course of the project, a large amount of information must be collected, such as relevant data from UNHCR and relevant reports from the media. It is necessary to find important information for integration and reasonably consider the needs of refugees and give priority to their most important life safety. In addition, it is necessary to consider what manufacturing process can meet these three functions, which can not only be used normally, but also be convenient for refugees to carry.
Research: This product is aimed at the refugee phenomenon in the world today. By designing methods, this product is helpful to the lives of refugees, hoping to improve the ability of the public to resist unknown dangers. And increase the public's attention and understanding of this group and reflect the social responsibility of designers.
Inspiration: In a refugee crisis, Allan, who was just 3 years old, followed her parents to board a refugee boat and took refuge in Europe. However, because the refugee boat he was overturned because of a severe overload, he was unfortunately encountered with a capsize accident on the way. Allan's body was washed into the Turkish beach by seawater, and the photos of his "sleeping" beach have caused worldwide concern and caused people's attention to the refugee wave.
Project Duration: The project was launched in Taiwan in March 2019, completed in Dongguan in July 2019, and exhibited at Dongguan University of Science and Technology in October 2019
Operation Flow: This product has three functions of buoyancy aid, sleeping bag and warm blanket. It can be unfolded and folded by elastic bands, making the product suitable for marine rescue, disaster relief, emergency material storage and other occasions.

Function 1: Buoyancy assist. A large number of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa must cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. However, in the process of crossing the sea, there are many dangers. The rubber boats used by the refugees were severely overloaded and there were not enough life jackets. Once the ship sinks, the risk of refugees losing their lives is high. Therefore, if the refugee can wear the product on the body, once refugee falls into the water, the buoyancy sponge filled inside the product will provide some buoyancy for refugees (about 90N), which will increase the refugee's chance of survival at sea.In addition, the product has a built-in waterproof inter layer, which can ensure that some important documents will not get wet when crossing the sea.

Function 2: Lifesaving blanket. If refugees can successfully cross the Mediterranean to the other side, the most serious challenge they face is declining body temperature. When they cross the sea, they will inevitably get wet, coupled with the cold sea breeze on the shore, if they do not keep warm in time, they will face a serious crisis. At this point, refugees can quickly expand the product into a life blanket and use it to wrap their bodies. Because the inner layer of the rescue blanket uses an aluminum film material, the heat emitted by the body can be reflected back to achieve the effect of keeping warm. This material is also widely used in emergency situations such as outdoor adventures and disaster relief.

Function 3：Sleeping bag. When refugees have just reached the opposite shore, they generally cannot quickly find a suitable place to live. At this time, they often sleep directly on the roadside and are easily ill due to cold and other reasons. In this case, they urgently need a temporary resting place, at which time the product can be transformed into a sleeping bag by simple expansion. The buoyancy sponge filled inside can be used as a simple version of the mattress, and the aluminum film material can also ensure the temperature inside the sleeping bag . And when they need to continue to migrate, they can put the product on their body and carry it conveniently.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Xudong Cai, Main picture, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Xudong Cai, Front view, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Xudong Cai, Rear view, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Xudong Cai, Use process, 2019.