Breville Kettle
The deconstruction of an electric household kettle was very revealing. We discovered the product consisted of too many small and excessive components and used a lot of unnecessary material.
Lid Component (consisting of 4 different materials)
In response to this we brainstormed a more ecological kettle to refine and de-materialize the product as much as possible to make it greener and have a longer life cycle- yet meet its aesthetically and functional aspects.
We did this by designing the product into two components the stainless steel body and functional housing that click together. Whereby the handle, lid and bottom are one component which is moulded in two halves that are them assembled together. We also wanted to de-materialize the handle made of solid polycarbonate; and instead used a polypropylene rib structure to achieve this.
New Ecological Kettle
Ribbed Ecological Handle
Greenfly software was helpful to realize the footprint of the product by its material, weight and transportation and how these could be significantly minimized. The following graphs outline how we reduced this footstep in our redesign. Before-After.
Energy Demand
As shown in the results we significantly reduced the impact of manufacture and improved its end of life cycle.
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