HIKING BACKPACK L80
Main objective
Design a proper product line for high-performance activities that are carried out in the mountains by aiming for unaddressed necessities.
Place and Year of execution
Bogota-Colombia, 2015.
Project category
Academic project
Industrial Designer
Camilo Garzon
Industrial Designer
Leonardo Nieto
Industrial Designer
THE TEAM
RESEARCH
Since there is a wide range of selection that involves mountain activities, the crucial make-decision factor that leads to a design response was to inverse ourselves into the activities itself, by inquiring and analysing users during the process. We decided to focus on one of the most popular natural activities in the younger audience in Bogota, which is hiking.
Observation and interviews were the main methodologies used to understand unaddressed necessities in the group.
INSIGHTS
Pauses do not take longer than 15 minutes each
Removing and taking the backpack on is one of the most frustrating aspects during pauses
Hikers try to avoid direct contact with any wet surface, using backpacks as a support to lay on
Using backpacks as support may damage the content, some soft objects must be carried apart
IDEATION AND PROTOTYPING
After having the insights and the final analysis from the primary research, we have a base to start the creative process that leads to the prototyping stage. A hard, but light structure to provide users with a rest surface was proposed as a solution, moreover, it offers additional protection to the content.
A low-weight aluminium structure offers protection to the content and allows the user to repose the whole body on it. It offers 2 divisions, which together sum capacity of 80 litres, ideal for all hiking equipment and all that users might require.
Food storage in the shoulder strap
Hip belt pockets
Aluminium structure
Reflectors