Nature and Forms: Emergency Evacuation Flight Suit


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Creator/Artist: Harsh Vardhan Tripathi

Category: Mobility Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2012-2014

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Nishant Sharma


Detailed Description

Nature has various interesting forms that have developed through thousandsw of years of evolution. They are not just interesting to look at, but also have some core functionality baked into them. This project aims to study these forms, choose one of them and develop the form into something that not only celebrates the form being studied, but also uses its functional properties. In this case, the form being considered is that of the winged seed of the maple tree. The structure of the seed, its reason of occurrence and properties were studied, and attempt was made to capture them into the design of a winged suit for emergency evacuation of skyscrapers. Skyscrapers currently don’t have efficient or fast modes of evacuation in case of emergency. This wing suit aims to solve that problem, through an affordable and easy to use solution, by leveraging the properties of the winged maple seed.