Bio-Inspired Can/tins storage

Rationale

This project is to develop a bio-inspired domestic storage for medium to high density living. For this task, I've decided to do a can storage that is inspired by the behaviour of elephant's trunk. Looking at the trends of house pantry especially in small apartments, people tend to store their cans everywhere or hidden inside the drawer and often they forget where they put their food cans until it become outdated.

So my solution to this problem is this rack which enables people to store their food cans in a more organized ways. The rack itself is naturally quite flexible for people to use, people can stick it to the wall, let the rack stand by itself, or even put it in any angle that suits the space better. This feature is mimetically follows the muscle flexibility of the trunk as the trunk itself can be directed to all angles just as this storage. This can storage also follows elephant's trunk's natural strong feature. This cans storage can be used either to make the cans visible and more organized to store, it also suits well for minimizing space for can storage. The cans itself can be stacked up and it won’t fall off because this rack is very steady because of the feature at the tip (which also mimically the trunk's tip).  This feature is inspired by the elephant's behaviour of picking up many branches by binding it using its trunk without it falling off.

The design itself is simple and yet aesthetically appealing which also follows my design philosophy. The inspiration of animal's behaviour such as elephant and its trunk feature has successfully helped me designing this storage and also understanding how we as designers can learn from nature's system to produce very useful products.

My only improvements would be playing around more with the features, and improve its features with more functionality which will improve customer's satisfactions and pleasure with the product, though it means more research and time to do it.