Charette 2

For our charette no.2 we were asked to disassemble an everyday product and identify all of the materials used to produce it in order to gain insight into environmental and manufacturing costs. We used Greenfly resources for this task

We began by disassembling the kettle down to every single screw and weighed and identified the materials used to produce the parts. These descriptions were then put into the Greenfly site to produce figures that relate to the environmental impact and manufacturing costs involved in producing this product.

Our new design took away the boil button and removed unnecessary materials around the handle and base. The overall form was shorter and wider so as to allow the same capacity it could contain before. We also gave the kettle an added function of being able to be placed onto the stove. The added function allows the kettle to boil water from use of the base as well as a stove. So it would be possible to boil eggs and things in it too.

The new design produced a better outcome in terms of material usage and wastage.