AÑO
2017
CATEGORÍA
Hogar
OBJETIVOS
Salud y bienestar
PAL. CLAVE
earthquake, Night time, safety
PAÍS
Turkey
CRÉDITOS
Designer: Gulben Sanli
Contributors: Lund University Ingvar Kamprad Design Centrum
LINK
https://issuu.com/gulbens./docs/gsanlithesis
Pillo "A Safety Blanket for Night-time Earthquakes"
Pillo designed to offer personal safety as an inflatable blanket for night-time earthquakes.
In 1999, there has been a distruptive night time earthquake in Turkey, which resulted in the death of more than 40 000 people. This occasion has been the foundation of Pillo project, which focus on earthquake safety in developing countries.
While designing Pillo, many interviews are conducted with the residents of Istanbul and Athens. As a result, Pillo has been designed as an inflatable blanket to offer a subtle technology to help preventing infant injuries at night time earthquakes.
Pillo can be attached on bed quilt. It contains a gas inflator that inflates when the earthquake data is received from the earthquake observatory through radio signals.
The technology for Pillo is kept affordable and reliable by using radio signals and ordinary type of gas inflator.
Affordability has been one of the main issue for designing Pillo, because the damage of earthquakes are especially high in developing earthquakes.