STEAM CLOSET 400 SERIES
2020
Brief: To design an iron for Gaggenau in the year 2025
The Steam Closet 400 Series re-defines garment care for the modern luxury home.
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IDEATION TO DEVELOPMENT
I started ideating thinking less about the technological side of things, but all within the confines of the spaces that the product would live in. This came as a bit of a struggle at first because the idea of a walk in wardrobe was difficult to work around for me. Through this ideation phase I was able to land on two fairly simple concepts to present at a midphase presentation.
MIDPHASE CONCEPTS
For the midphase concepts, I decided to go with the primary idea of a steam closet but separated them into whether they would be installed into an island or the wall. I made some low fidelity renders to flesh out the dimensions, scale, features, and in use scenarios.
CONCEPT A: DISPLAY
CONCEPT B: TRANSFORM
REFINEMENT
After receiving feedback on the two midphase concepts, I chose to go with the wall steam closet, rather than the island. From there I honed in on the details, like closures and mechanisms, packaging, and the UI/UX of the design through exploratory sketches and more ideation.
some exploratory sketches to refine details of the steam closet such as vent patterns, hinges, closures, and the mechanisms behind how the steam would be generated and regulated
packaging ideation
FINAL CONCEPT
