Capsule Tea Machine 茶饮冲泡机 by Beijing Xiaoguan Cha Company Limited

Capsule Tea Machine 茶饮冲泡机 by Beijing Xiaoguan Cha Company Limited is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 家用电器设计 Competition Category.

银家用电器· 2022

Capsule Tea Machine 茶饮冲泡机

by Beijing Xiaoguan Cha Company Limited

Client: Beijing Xiaoguan Cha Company Limited

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家用电器 Category

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The Design

About Capsule Tea Machine 茶饮冲泡机

胶囊茶机是一款适用于家庭与办公场景的茶饮冲泡电器。产品提供十种茶胶囊类型，将所选胶囊置入顶部盖内即可，内置识别组件可辨识茶叶种类并匹配相应的冲泡方式，五十秒即可完成一杯茶的冲泡。双层加压冲泡技术模拟了中国传统手工泡茶的两段式工艺。高温蒸汽系统可对内部腔体进行清洁。造型灵感源自中国古代青瓦窗棂简约凝练的轮廓。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Capsule Tea Machine 茶饮冲泡机是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Capsule Tea Machine 茶饮冲泡机将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Capsule Tea Machine 茶饮冲泡机是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This tea machine delivers a simplistic and convenient tea-making solution to users. It not only makes the whole tea-making process aesthetic and practical, but also provides fine-drinking tea. The innovative machine lessens the time to make tea and utilize the handmade tea-making characteristics, which enables users to enjoy the excellent taste of tea at any time.
Dimensions & Packaging: 370mm*325mm*155mm. Water tank capacity 2.5L, total weight 6.2kg.
Production Technology: The noise-canceling structure and noiseless parts ensure quiet operation. Its self-developed high-temperature self-cleaning technology guarantees a clean and germ-free inner space by high-temperature steam, which is safe and convenient. Also, different from other heating systems made from stainless steel, this machine will not generate scale in the long run, and can prevent the tea from cooling down. And its power dissipation lowers by 15%, which is more environmentally friendly.
Design Challenge: The difficulty is how to guarantee the high quality of tea. In order to solve this problem, the machine applies double-layer pressurized tea-making technology and simulates the two-stage manual process of Chinese tea-making so that users can enjoy the tea with best flavor and high quality.
Research: Xiaoguan Cha helps make the tea superior and promote the traditional tea industry. As a large producer of tea leaves, China has numerous tea companies and tea stores of various scales, the quality of which is uneven. Xiaoguan Cha cooperates with tea-making masters and sets product standards in accordance with the requirements of high grade tea leaves posed by traditional tea-making techniques, and its own tea-making skills and cumulative experience. Meanwhile, we watch out the production process very carefully to ensure the high quality of our products.
Inspiration: This equipment provides the unique and professional tea-making experience at home and office. This machine simulates the compact size, traditional design and gentle outline of ancient Chinese blue tile windows. The hollowed-out shape leaves a sense of retro feeling and perfectly connects the function of the machine and the visual language.
Project Duration: Beijing, from 2018 to Feb 2022
Operation Flow: It is easy to use. First, user can start the machine by pressing the button at the back. User can choose his/her favorite flavor from ten different tea capsule packages and put his or her favorite in the machine cover at the top. Then user presses the tea-making button, and the inner invisible recognition component will quickly identify the tea leaves and use different ways to make the tea. In fifty seconds, a cup of tea is made.
Team Members: Project Leader: Bing Han
Head of Marketing: Lei Ma
Industrial Designer: Xing Zhang
Packaging Designer: Na Chen
Head of Development: Zhou Yongzhuo
Product Manager : Chen Xiujuan
Head of tea research and development: Zheng Huicong
Test Engineer : Peng Mao