4ouR is a team focusing on producing rescuing product with recycle materials. We applies sustainable concept in order to promote disaster rescue service system. Our product is designed for the lower class who lives in areas where flooding is more common by using recycling botttles. Using the liferaft, people are able to get away from the danger on their own lifeboat.

2. Not only a product, it is a business of caring.
Design Research /Service Design/ Product System/ Design Entrepreneurship

3. TEAM
Zihan Xiao
Yu-Hsin Wang

4. Zihan Xiao
China
Innovate or Die!
Research
Concept Developing
Sketching
Model Making
Logo Design
Collaborate Research Verbal PresentaHon Visual (2-D) PresentaHon Visual (3-D) PresentaHon
1
10
Sustainable EntrepreneurialConcept Development
Where I am
Where I will be

5. Yu-Hsin Wang
Taiwan
Design for Real!
Research
Concept Developing
Managing the whole project
Model Making
Photography
Collaborate Research Verbal PresentaHon Visual (2-D) PresentaHon Visual (3-D) PresentaHon
1
10
Sustainable EntrepreneurialConcept Development
Where I am
Where I will be

6. 4ouR is a team focusing on producing rescuing
product with recycle materials. We applies
sustainable recycling concept in order to promote
disaster rescue product service system.

7. Our product is designed for the lower class who
lives in areas where flooding is more common by
using recycling botttles. Using the liferaft, people
are able to get away from the danger on their
own lifeboat.

8. Research in New Orleans

9. August 28 - September 07, 2014
Research in New Orleans, LA, USA
8.27 8.29
Studio Trip
3 hour City/Katrina Tour
8.31
Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond
9.07
Back to School
8.30
Met with Collette Creppell, AIA, LEED
9.05
Rosa Library and Community Center
9.08
Became a team
Layover at Houston Airport

10. 4.77
0.05
Flood Depth(Meters)
Katrina Flooding Area
August 29, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
flooded80%

11. deaths
986
No Vihecle
40%-50%
drowning
injury
heart conditions
others
40%
24%
25%
11%

12. Households without access to a vehicle
2000 2013 2000 2013
New Orleans
US
Poverty rate
2007 20131999
28%
21%
27%
12%
13% 16%
27%
19%
10%
9%
2007 20131999
New Orleans
US

13. refrigerator graveyard flooded area Waste
Mental Environmental Cultural
Another Environmental Problem

14. What can we do?

15. Cooperate
How to provide rescueing support for
low income people who suffer from
flooding disasters
Transportation
Boat
Technology
Life Boat
Mental
Cultural
Social
Economic
Volunteers
Rescue
Evacuation
Help
Saving
Poor
Sallary
Money Environemental
Life
Floods
Safety
Disaster
Death
Daily Routine
Business
Work
Investment
Protect
Save
Assembly
Portable
Internet
Contact App
Product
Water
Recycle Bottle
Family
Neighbor
Community
Center
House
Sustainability
Recycle
Nature
NGO
Cheap
GPS
News
City
Relieved
Worried
Threatened
Stressed
Habbit
Harmless
Green Tech
Government
Evacuating Spot
Cooperate with Government
On-line Service
Low Cost Green Product
(Increase Recycling Rate)

17. User
Government4ouR
Product
Bottles
Free Labor
$ Sales tax
Support of the product
Tax Rebate
User
1. Tools to get away from disaster
2. Rewards from government
Government
1. Reduce the number of vitims
2. Educate people to do recycling
3. Reduce the budget on hiring people doing recycling
4ouR
1. Able to help people
2. Gain Reputation
3. Obtain a way to sell product
4. Collect bottles
Creating a Beneficial Relationship Between User/ Team/ Government

18. Bottle Bin Collector Home
Collection Facilities 4ouR New Plastic ProductLocal Plastic BusinessCollector
Life Boat

19. Recycled Plastic Bottles
Disaster Evacuation Service and Rescuing Product

20. CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

21. How many bottles we need to float a person ?
Archimedes' principle: F = V * g * ρ0
F = 1.0 * 103kg/m³ * 10N/kg * 0.5 * 10 ³ m³ = 5N
G = m * g = 50kg * 10N/kg = 500N
0.5L
50kg

22. So, we will need...
More than 100 bottles
...

23. TRANSFORM
COMBINATION
SET/KIT
NETWORK
LEGO
RESCUE
TOY/
BUILDING MATERIAL
EASY TO MOCK UP
PRODUCT FEATURES

24. INITIAL CONCEPT
Unit Connection
...

25. How can we keep
such amount bottles
in a orgnized way ?
INSPIRATION

27. Feed Back
Weight Unit combination Production costPortable
+
Fabric Empty bottles Float raft
=

29. Velcro
double layer
Zipper
double line

30. OUR FINE MODEL !

31. Cutout
VelcroEyelet
Front side
Back side
Zipper

32. SLIP INTO BOTLLES CLOSE ZIPPER
PUT VELCRO PART THROUGH CUTOUT CONNECT TWO SECTIONS
1 2
3 4

33. FINISH OTHER FIVE BAGS FOLD SIX BAGS INTO TWO LAYERS
USE THE RING TO LOCK TWO SECTION TOGETHER DONE
5 6
7 8

34. Small
27 in
36in
Medium Large
Single Double Family
500
ml
1000
ml
3000
ml
37 in
50in
57 in
76in

35. Single Package Manual Six-set Package

37. Not only a product, but a team, a service and MORE.

38. RETHINK
RETURN
RECYCLE
RESCUE
The Relationship Between Human and Environment, Environment and Human
To Community
Wasted Bottle
People in Danger
社會觀察 環境研究
社區回饋
收回 回收資源習慣
災難救援

39. LOGO DEVELOPMENT

43. Recycle+Rescue
RecycleRethink
Return
Water Ground
Rescue
‘R’ Heart Care product

44. LOGO
NAME
SLOGAN

45. Target UserLow-income People
Homeless
School Kids
Families Enjoy Hanmaking, Science
People Living in Flooding Area
TARGET USERS
Target User

46. The 20 Cities Facing The Highest Annual Average Flooding Costs by 2050
Guayaqull
Abidjan
Surat
Jakarta
Bangkok
Ho Chi Mihn City
Chennal
Kolkata
Mumbai
Tianjin
Nagoya
Xiamen
Guangzhou
Zhanjian
Shenzhen
New Orleans
New York
Boston
Tampa
Miami
Target
Target Field Domains: Urban/ Flooding Area

47. Government-
City of New Orleans Department of Sanitation
Louisiana Department of Education
Recycling Services-
Phoenix Recycling Inc.
Republic Services of New Orleans
Local Plastics Manufacturer
Key Partners

48. Through the core value, creat more opportunities.

49. Product Lines
Website
CIS
Videos
After this project...

50. Thank You.