To print as much as possible
we optimized the design for fast printing.

Timeline

03.2020
Started supplying German Red Cross
04.2020
Started testing with Charité Berlin
04.2020
Featured in German taz Newspaper
06.2020
End of the project: by June the availability of commercial PPE had picked up again

Concept

The Berlin-Visor is a protective face shield made on a 3D printer. This design has the advantage that the transparent film is clamped, reducing assembly complexity. The visor was supplied to the German Red Cross during the early months of Covid and also tested for emergency use at the Charité Berlin intensive care units.
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Worlds fastest print-time
Berlin Visor

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Industrial Design

Clamping onto the Shield

The headband has a subtle 3D wave for allowing it to securely clamp in the protective shield foil.
This lets us skip the extra steps to create button holes in production and makes for faster assembly.

Ear-Savers

Ear-Savers hold onto the face mask to take the pressure off our ears. Printed in huge stacks of over 150 pieces per printer every night.

Assembly

CGI by Mattis Obermann

Easy Assembly

Assembly Video

See how the visor clamps onto the protective shield foil.

Berlin vs. Prague

Prusa Visor

We provided both visors to Charité and the German Red Cross – the results of the testing were inconclusive as we were just asked to provide more of both.

Berlin-Visor

In order to prove the validity of our Design, we tested it against the most widely used 3D printed visor, designed by the great Josef Prusa himself.

Full Concept

30 second read

25 mins to print – comfortable for hours.
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Designed to be printed as fast as possible due to its robust design.
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Our Design has a wider headband and clamps in the protective shield foil instead of attaching to the foil with buttons.
This allows us to ship the foil directly without any extra steps to create button holes.

We are very proud that this Design has gotten approved for testing by the Charité Hospital Berlin and was field-tested in one of their intensive-care units.
Ear-Savers for medical workers talking to medical workers on the frontlines of the Pandemic we noticed that the back of their ears had chafed from wearing masks for long hours.

My Ear-Savers hook onto the mask strings and take the pressure off the ears. Designed to be printed in huge stacks allowing each machine to produce over 50 pieces per night. Keeping the ears of health-workers safe.
Design & Organisation
Georg Kloeck
Maximilian Blazek

Organisational Support
Daniel Skiebe

Production
Jörg Hugo
Björn Bernt

Animation
Mattis Obermann

Patronage
Prof. Carola Zwick
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last updated 2023/05/01