Tentagon 充气帐篷 by Wei Chen and Chi-Yung Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 户外装备与露营设备设计 Competition Category.
银露营装备· 2022
Tentagon 充气帐篷
Client: Tentagon
A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 露营装备 Category
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The Design
About Tentagon 充气帐篷
Tentgaon是一种三轴结构的充气帐篷。外观以五边形带表为基础，通过左右倾斜角度与内帐相连，利用重力实现内帐与气柱的平衡。 Tentagon以简单的几何形状创造出经典的造型，同时以不同的角度和面貌诉诸生活。希望用户能够勇敢走出舒适区，诠释生活态度！
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 银奖
Tentagon 充气帐篷是 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Tentagon 充气帐篷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。Tentagon 充气帐篷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
- 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.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 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 - Tags
- Inflatable , Camping , Outdoor , Lightweight , Tent
- Production 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.
- Design 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.
- 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. - 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.
- Project Duration
- 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.
- Operation Flow
- 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.
- Team Members
- Designer:Chi Yung Li
Designer:Wei Chen
Guiding Mentor:Yu Chih Chang - Image Credits
- Image#1:Creator Wei Chen , Chi-Yung Li ,2022
Image#2:Creator Wei Chen , Chi-Yung Li ,2022
Image#3:Creator Wei Chen , Chi-Yung Li ,2022
Image#4:Creator Wei Chen , Chi-Yung Li ,2022
Image#5:Creator Wei Chen , Chi-Yung Li ,2022
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