Neo Sandal

Focus lies on Sus­tain­abil­i­ty
and the used Mate­ri­als

Problems

‚Nor­mal‘ shoes are made of many parts and mate­ri­als. If you were to recy­cle them, they need to be separated.

Instead, I use mate­ri­als which are biode­grade­ble in a times­pan that won´t affect the prod­uct life and the user expe­ri­ence. Being naturally grown and treat­ed, they make the man­u­fac­tur­ing process a closed cycle.

Cork

Leather

Glue

Health

A san­dal is health­i­er for your skin, but beyond that, its form also restores your health — because every part of the foot is left in its nat­ur­al orientation.

Since the mus­cle chains are con­nect­ed through the whole body, not only the foot will benefit.

Prototypes

Design

Realisation

The 3D print­ed parts are mer­ly a placeholder. 

In the final prod­uct, they would be made out of cork and leather like the sole and would be fur­ther sub­di­vid­ed, to pre­vent cracks and even­tu­al­ly braking.

Minimalistic

Only a few parts make the whole product.

Multifunctional

This san­dal is a new sus­tain­able base for a mul­ti­tude of shoes. With­out chang­ing the inner workings it is pos­si­ble to extend the design into a boot for example.

Flexibility

Even­though cork is hard­er than fab­ric, it is still com­fort­able, because it is seg­ment­ed in many mov­able parts.

Stability

The leather aids in sta­bil­i­ty, robust­ness and longgevi­ty of the san­dal. It would also be used in the hinges of the top parts.

Comfort

Leather has proven to be reli­able, durable, flex­i­ble, breath­able, aller­gy friend­ly, anti­sta­t­ic and leightweight.

Magic

Cork is known to crum­ble under stress of bend­ing. This is pre­vent­ed by apply­ing a special geometry. 

Aesthetic

exper­i­men­tal · raw · futur­is­tic · technical

It aims to show that a healthy sus­tain­able shoe doesn‘t need to pan­der to an eco­con­scious tar­get group. It reed­u­cates and pop­u­lar­izes those ideas — with­out visu­al sacrifices.