Ritual

Challenge

How can the outdoor coffee brewing and drinking experience be made more enriching for people who love outdoor activities?

This was the guiding statement when I started working on this project.
Designed for LeManoosh and coffee company Wacaco, this project serves to reimagine the outdoor coffee drinking experience. As a reference, I used Wacaco’s Pipamoka portable coffee maker that uses pressure brewing to brew coffee.

My goal was to keep the pressure brewing mechanism intact and try to puzzle how the experience of brewing coffee outdoors could be made more relaxing and enriching making people want to slow down and focus on the ritual of brewing and drinking coffee and forget about their otherwise busy lives.

Solution

The Wacaco Ritual is a crank-powered pressure brewer inspired by the environment it is meant to be used in, nature. Intended to be a physical campfire, the Ritual as a holistic concept is meant to be a place where people gather and talk over. It comes with a gyroscopic tray with a built in heater to keep your coffee hot for those chilly mountain nights.