Jeremy Fu


Rivian

Treehouse

Designed with the R2 and R3 customer in mind, the tent leverages Rivian’s electric vehicle platform to enable powered features including exterior and interior lights, ventilation, usb-c charging, and a built in movie projector. 

Our tent’s unique silhouette is framed on one end by a zipper-free door, and on the other by a custom hard shell with a large panoramic window. 


My Role
  • Led development of hard-shell rooftop tent from architecture proof-of concept, through successful show build, into production design
  • Developed strategy for packaging lighting, ventilation, controls, and wire harness —spanning hard shell, tent frame, and mechanisms
  • Engineered composite fiberglass tent shell, developing CAD models to run FEA structural analyses to balance mass, cost, and performance
  • Collaborated with aerodynamics engineers and design studio to minimize tent shell’s impact on vehicle range and acoustics
  • Iteratively prototyped door hoop mechanism resulting in increased interior height while ensuring seamless deploy and stow experience
  • Directed fabrication hand-off of 300+ unique parts, effectively coordinating with in-house teams and external prototyping partners
  • Managed team of 3 engineers to de-risk novel architecture decisions, ensuring quality, functionality, and on-time delivery to public unveil
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