Anyone interested in design should immediately check out vestaldesign.com. Vestal Design is a collection of young, talented designers working together to create inventive and often surprising solutions to modern quandaries. Their various projects range from practical solutions to everyday dilemmas to potentially world-changing proposals.
Urban dwellers short on space should appreciate the DoubleSpace kitchenette. It’s a spacious armchair that easily folds into a dual-burner electric stove. The designer has wisely included a safety feature that prohibits the burners from turning on when the unit is in armchair position. So you can aside your worries of your apartment erupting into a ball of flames and just enjoy the convenience of frying up some chicken, then folding up your stove into a comfy dining chair.
Those with a love of nature must consider the Polaris tent. The design looks more like a hamster habitrail then the traditional pole tent from your Scouting days. The interlocking tubes are held up by inflatable rings and can linked together to form tiny villages. The inclusion of signal kites, meant for flying messages to fellow campers, and energy-generating photovoltaic panels that allow campers to recharge their electronics may make camping as fun as those “outdoor types” claim it already is.
The most astounding of Vestal Designs’ projects is their plan for refugee housing, the “SHRIMP” (Sustainable Housing for Refugees via Mass Production). The portable habitats can be shipped in 10' x 9.5' x 8' boxes and assembled in minuites to provide comfortable and relatively spacious shelter to homeless or displaced families. The compactibility of the units mean that one container ship could carry enough housing for 100,000 people. The units are equippied with solar distillary panels on the roofs so inhabitants can have fresh water and wood interiors that allow dwellers to modifty their space for more permanent living.
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