BEDON

An add-on for individual privacy and better rest in rooms that are shared by several people for sleeping

Abstract

In collaboration with two students – a Mechanical Engineer from ETH Zurich and an Industrial Designer from ZHdK – we created a product that provides individual privacy and better rest in rooms that are shared by several people for sleeping.

Various user groups are identifiable:

• Asylum seekers in transit/asylum centers
• Patients in hospitals
• Tourists in youth hostels (mattress rooms)
• Soldiers during military services

After an analysis of existing products on the market and research through interviews, it became clear that concerning the life of asylum seekers in Switzerland, the lack of privacy, sleep, and private space, is very relevant and few satisfactory products are dealing with this issue.

Our aim was to build a product with following properties:

• Creating a sense of security and comfort
• Opaque for better privacy;
  protection from glances and
  to support one’s own concentration
• Sound absorbing
• Light absorbing
• Fits on most beds, suitable for bunk beds too
• Easy to put together and take apart
• Adjustable amount of privacy for
  sitting, resting, sleeping
• Space-saving