This is the cardboard tent. The purpose with this tent was to create a recyclable, pre pitched tent that festival goers could book to use across the festival weekend. Inputting these two attributes means that the festival can guarantee that the tent is being disposed of correctly and not left behind on their property. By making the tent pre pitched, much like when festival goers book with ‘Glamping’ campsites, the service offers the user a multitude of incentives. Throughout my research, I accumulated a wealth of data in an attempt to discover the psychology behind why festival goers so commonly leave their tents behind at festivals.  Unsurprisingly, both primary and secondary data sources revealed similar outcomes; generally indicating that the reasoning behind this phenomenon is laziness. Festival goers typically blame their choices on hangovers caused by a weekend of drinking and lack of sleep. By offering the festival goer the choice to leave their tent behind, reducing the number of belongings they have to take home with them and saying that we will dispose of it for them means that we can cut out the risk of tent being dumped on site. In addition to this, with festival goers bringing so many items with them to the festival, it reduces the amount of luggage they have to bring with them into the campsite, subsequently, making their journey easier. On top of this, the festival can store more tents on sight than what has been laid out into the camp, therefore, if the user’s tent should break for whatever reason, such as bad weather, we can offer them a new copy. Once the festival has finished, the carboard tents can be collected and taken away to be recycled due to the material’s eco-friendly nature and used again for another purpose.

In the second image, we can see the reverse of the tent. On the rear face of the product, I decided to apply a propeller to signify the perception that this tent is posing to be in the style of a rocket ship. I decided upon using a rocket ship style to create a theme in an attempt to reduce theatrical separation between the festival stages and camps. The style choice also came from inspiration led by the events company ‘Elrow’ and their intergalactic party ‘Rows Attacks’. Up until present day, the events brand does not offer weekend camping festivals to their audiences. Despite this, I believe with the mixture of their psychedelic style and environmentally driven ethos, offering them this product and service could be the first steppingstone in to starting a weekend camping festival for the Spanish hosts. In addition to being a visual aid and signifying the theme of the campsite, the propeller offers practical qualities. With few items of furniture around the campsite, the propeller may act as a rest/table to place items on while socialising or getting ready in the camp. The propeller is attached to the product by folding the square bottom section of the first laser cut component, bolting it to the tent using Nuatan bio plastic casted rivets and then sliding the second propeller over the top, also folding its square base and repeating the bolting process again. Due to the 3D printing qualities of the Nuatan bio plastic rivets, if any of these breaks during use and the festival has a 3D printer on site, the components can be manufactured again and replaced.

In the third image we can see the opening of the tent. In order to reduce the amount of materials needed to manufacture this tent, I wanted to produce a secure locking system that would not require the aid of other components. The front face is laser cut in a way that creates overlap between the door adjacent to it with the teeth shaped overhang. The cut out on either side then creates friction with one another, making it harder for the doors to open and close without force. The reduction in materials and components makes the overall product more sustainably viable and reduces the impact the waste it causes will have on the environment. In addition to this, we can see how the tent has been folded and bolted to create its shape and structure. The front and reverse faces of the product are folded in on themselves and then attached to the overarching body of the tent using the Nuatan bio plastic casted rivets. By folding the faces in on themselves, the product does not need the aid of a hinge, again reducing the number of components necessary to manufacture this product. Another quality that is present within the image is the use of neon paint. As well as driving the ‘Elrow’ theme in the campsite by shaping the tent to pose as a rocket ship, I believe that offering the user a chance to decorate their own tent, especially with neon paint, will add to the psychedelic qualities that the product holds. Painting the tent with this style paint will allow the images produced to glow at night, something that festival goers would desire. As well as the aesthetic qualities that the paint holds, giving the user the opportunity to carry out this process will spark and create conversation in the campsite, making it a more socially safe and approachable area.

In the third image, we can see a skeleton drawing of the tent alongside the product’s dimensions. The dimensions of this product were based off of the proportions that ‘Kartent’ use to manufacture their service, another company who have begun their journey into the world or cardboard produced tents. This structure fits two festival goers inside yet would be better to house one user alongside their belongings. Despite being a pre pitched tent for festival goers to book, it doesn’t quite hold the same qualities that ‘Glamping’ has to offer. However, this wasn’t a factor that I wanted to include within my design. The perspective that I wanted to convey was that festival goers can pay bottom end prices for their product; not have to worry about the transportation of it to and from the festival, while at the same time, still being environmentally conscious. Additionally, due to the simplistic nature of the design, it would be possible to scale the proportions of the tent up or down in order to alter the sizing of the product. This would allow more or fewer users to house the structure which the festival could then charge more or less money to book.