
easondesignsme
Let me tell you a story...
we come up with two words for our brand.
Intransigent


Sovereign
Project Brief
This is a team project that Zotion and i designed a snow boot and a snowshoe for Arc'teryx that based on our six words story.


Arc'teryx
Self-Adaptive Snowshoe
Branding|Prototyping|3DModeling
Duration
Software
14 Weeks 2024
Solidworks|Adobe|Keyshots
Teamwork
This time, We will bring Arc’teryx’s talents to Oregon PCT.
We prefer to depict our location with two words.
Who will go to that place?
Only two words can describe our consumers.
Extreme


Discerning
To achieve these, we would ask ourself...
Rigor


Capricious

What if the natural challenges could be manipulated?
How could we lead the competition between human and nature?

Sovereign
Capricious
Discerning
Intransigent
Rigor
Extereme

Tech Research-Fibe Robo
Fibe Robo is a new pressure shape-changing fiber. Basically, we are able to control the shape and tension of the fabric by pressure. Base on that we made many concept developments and form ideations.

Concepts Development

Final concept
Snowshoe has 4 sections, front spoiler, elastic frame, foot stand, and tail. First, the front spoiler, based on research, it has a specific curve shape navigate users foot when walking in the powder snow, the shape could minimize the friction of each step. And for the elastic frame we use Fibe Robo to change the size of touching area between the snowshoes and ground. Compressed snow and powder snow will apply different pressure on the fabric, so the fabric will deform depends on the ground feedback. If user is walking on the powder snow, our product will maximize the size of touching area, which means minimize pressure of user on the snow to make sure our users are going to float on the snow. As we mentioned before, crater lake has 30 feet powder snow in wimter. When the user walks on a dense snow, we can also shrink down the size to increase flexibility.


Problem statement
Existing snowshoe are relatively difficult to adapt to in an environment with variable climatic or snow conditions. In addition, the physical exertion of walking on a snowshoe is very high and stems from a non-ergonomic walking design.
Final concept
A structure that could be manipulated to adapt to all extreme conditions.

Infield Testing
We created mock-ups and went into the field to experiment. Ultimately validated our CONCEPT.


Final Model






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This our wall presentation, and salute to my teamate Zotion Xu who is in charge of the boot































