Installation design initiative that seamlessly integrates with public spaces.
Harvest / Coffee is a drip coffee maker that uses rain water to make one cup of slow drip coffee. The product is made of an aluminum frame that incorporates a three - stage coffee maker consisting of a water collection funnel, a rainwater filter and a pack of ground coffee. The product can be hung outside the kitchen window or balcony to collect rainwater overnight resulting in one slowly dripped cup of coffee.
The project's theme is Harvest. Our concept is not to produce additional resources, but to gather resources from nature, thereby achieving “acquisition.” From natural resources, we can easily obtain rainwater, which we plan to transform into coffee.
We decided to integrate these functions into a frame structure that can be hung outdoors to collect rainwater. Each functional component can be attached or detached from the frame, and at the bottom, we added a designated space to place a coffee cup.
We welded a structure similar to a ladder using iron rods. At each intersection of the horizontal and vertical rods, we can hang the necessary parts, such as rainwater collector, filter packs, and so on.
Each section is connected vertically with soft tubes to allow rainwater to flow through the system.
Packaging bags suitable for water filtration processes and ground coffee, designed for easy replacement as both filter bags and ground coffee pouches.
To ensure the entire device is lightweight and modular, we ultimately selected aluminum tubing as the frame material, enabling easy assembly, disassembly, and portability.
We 3D-printed connectors to join aluminum tubes, creating a cleaner, more streamlined structure that supports modular functionality and secures packaging bags.
Rubber cords allow for quick and easy suspension of rain funnels and packaging bags on aluminum tube connectors.
