Samenvatting

As a student of industrial product design I have gotten used to making and fixing everything myself. If I run into a problem or a product breaks, I try to solve and repair it. If I couldn’t do it yet, I'd just learn how to. This led me to build my own house on wheels at the start of 2020. The complete design and
building process was done in about 6 months. I started with a bare steel flat trailer and designed a completely functional lightweight home with all the appliances and features I wanted. As the primary heating solution for my mobile home, I had decided to use a wood burning stove. I wanted to design and build a wood stove myself, which is why I started researching the wood stove industry and designing a unique light-weight wood stove that would perfectly fit into my Tiny House. After a while, I found the company Anevay Stoves from the southwest of England, a small but competent business developing extremely useful and highly efficient stove solutions for outdoors and indoors. The company is mainly focussed on travel stoves and small space stoves. I contacted the company’s founders Dawie and Mandy Cronje, and we discussed my design project. We decided it would be a better idea to work together on developing a new kind of product! Innovation within the small space stove market to solve a growing problem for many van-lifers and mobile home owners: having to get on the roof and dismantle the chimney manually before driving on the road. Could we design a product that can be lowered or retracted from the inside of the home, making it possible to heat your home immediately after a journey?

In this project, I will go through all the design stages and develop a new product for Anevay Stoves which can be prototyped and hopefully manufactured and sold all over Europe/the world. I am quite excited to work on this product together with Anevay, giving me the possibility as a student of design to be part of realising a new product for their company and maybe I will even be able to install an early prototype into my very own home. First, a brief overview of the Anevay wood stove company.

LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/robbert-van-haaften-aa908a4b