A new aircraft seat using nature inspired design

A new aircraft seat using nature inspired design

Kokorikou, A.

Vink, P. (mentor)
De Pauw, I.C. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Design Engineering

Master of Science Integrated Product Design

2014-09-01

The project’s goal was to design a lightweight, sustainable and comfortable aircraft seat for the economy class. It was done in cooperation with the company Optimares based in Italy. The company’s economy seat “Sabre” was studied and used as a reference point for this project. The project was executed in four main phases: the research and analysis phase, the synthesis phase, the embodiment phase followed by an evaluation phase to assess the final design. The nature inspired design methods Cradle to cradle and Biomimicry were used to make the product sustainable and lightweight.

aircraft seat
biomimicry
cradle to cradle
sustainable design

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Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Kokorikou, A.