Charette 2

For our second charette activity, we were required to disassemble a home appliance and identify materials used during manufacture as well as collaborating with the Greenfly organisation website to identify shipping and material costs of the product. Our group was given a Breville JETSelect Teflon iron.


From our diassembly exercise, we found that household appliances such as these were in fact made for non-dissassembly. Many of the parts had to be forced apart in order to identify the various components as well as materials used.


The final bit of this charette required our group to redesign the particular household appliance given to us. We ha to fulfill several criterias which included the reduction of materials used to manufacture the particular product and a streamlining of the original design.