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ADAPTIVE.

Overlanding Trunk Tent 

Adaptive is a tent designed to fit in almost any SUV, with the aim of bringing overlanding to everyone, regardles of their equipment or experience, opening the doors to adveture to anyone willing to venture to it.

Summer 2021

Semester 1

14 week project 

RESEARCH  

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Overlanding is a fast growing trend where people go camping in their cars, focused on the sense of exploration and enrichment through journey and adventure.

GROWTH

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Increased popularity in SUVs

Outdoor market growth 

Job flexibility (Remote)

As the market for the outdoors grows, so does the one for overlanding, however, this activity reamins the same, targeting people with high incomes willing to spend thousands on a car built for adventure.

Adaptive aims to break this barriers offering a product that will allow the consumer to go overlanding in their regular city car with all the luxuries a rooftop tent brings to the activity at a much lower price.

HOW?

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Reliable

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Universal Fit 

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Easy Use

Reliable doesent have to mean expensive.

Adaptive is the perfect budget friendly solution to Overlanding.

1 tent, any car. Overlanding doesent have to mean modifying your car.  

Unfold it, set it up and move it around. ease of use makes overlanding as easy as ever.

INSPIRED BY NATURE

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Designed FOR nature BY nature

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Inspired on the way reptiles scales shift to conform to their movements, the base for Adpatives tent conforms to the environment of your car, wrapping arround bumps and features in the trunk, leveling and securing the base in place.

This feature makes Adaptive perfect for any SUV.

Implementing the honeycomb pattern into the scale like section of the base gave the bed rigidity when pressure is applied from the top while keeping the adaptive feature of comforming to the trunk when pressed from the sides.

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One of the goals of the Adaptive tent is being easy to use, to tackle that problem it draws inspiration from leaves and the folds in their surface, applied to both the base and the tent Adaptive becomes easily foldable for storage and set up, making it friendly even for the unexperienced overlanders.

DIMENSIONS

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Adaptives base is designed arround the average dimensionsof an SUV, and then filled with adjustable features to make up for changes.

The base, designed to fit in the trunk of you car is also perfect for 2 adults to sleep in at the same time.

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Main tent element strapped unto the edge of the trunk door and latched on to the rim of the base.

 

The tent also includes stargazing windows on the front and side as well as easy access from the side.

Tent comes with a rain cover preassure fitted using silicone seal on top, being sealed by the preasure form the edges tied unto the wheels and pegged in the front to the ground.

Side has a zipper that allows you to get to the interior element of the tent

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