#U.S. Rooftop Tent Market Share

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Future of U.S. Rooftop Tent Market: Insights from Industry Experts

The U.S. rooftop tent market size is estimated to reach USD 286.71 million by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of 8.0% over the forecast period, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. The internet is essential in increasing the demand for camping equipment in the U.S. The e-commerce sector is growing, which makes it easier for customers to choose and purchase rooftop tents from online sites or applications like Amazon, E-bay, etc. This saves customers' time and enables them to take advantage of numerous discounts to reduce costs. The majority of online shopping outlets rely on social media networks to spread the word about campgrounds. To inform users of new camping areas, numerous smartphone applications, including POCKET, CampFone, Woodall's, iCamp, and MapMyHike, were released. In addition, social media enables customers to learn enough facts about a product's capabilities before making a purchase.

The rising popularity of adventure tourism and the simplicity of setup are driving the market for rooftop tents in the U.S. The demand for the product has benefited from the recent rapid growth of adventure tourism, particularly in the U.S. The market for U.S. rooftop tent is driven by rising interest in outdoor activities and is anticipated to grow over the course of the forecast period. The need for comfortable and luxurious rooftop tents is growing because camping is typically done outside of cities where access to essential utilities like internet, electricity, and other amenities is limited. Rooftop tents are convenient, secure, cozy, and dry.

Governments worldwide promote tourism involving extreme sports, like camping, which assists in the growth of the global market for camping tents. Adventure tourism has recently increased, especially in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, which is helping boost demand for camping tents. A survey conducted by the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) revealed that in 2020, more people chose adventure travel programs, which fueled the growth of the camping tent business. People across the U.S. realize the advantages of engaging in outdoor and leisure activities; hence, they spend more time camping each year. Such individuals' propensity for outdoor recreation fuels the development of rooftop tents.

Gather more insights about the market drivers, restrains and growth of the U.S. Rooftop Tent Market

U.S. Rooftop Tent Market Report Highlights

• Automotive rooftop tents have grown in popularity as a low-cost alternative to recreational vehicles and a slightly more elegant way to camp. The most appealing aspects of rooftop tents are their ease of erecting and the way they support the inhabitants off the ground.

• The commercial rooftop tent market is influenced by several factors, including the growth of the outdoor recreation industry and the increasing popularity of adventure tourism.

• The rise in e-commerce makes it easier for customers to purchase these products online, fostering market growth.

• The 2-person and 3-person tents are usually hard-shell tents. With the growing demand for hard-shell tents, the demand for smaller tents is also expected to expand significantly.

• Customizing product offerings to cater to specific regional preferences, climates, and outdoor landscapes helps capitalize on local market opportunities and drive market penetration.

U.S. Rooftop Tent Market Segmentation

Grand View Research has segmented the U.S. rooftop tent market based on tent type, capacity, and application:

U.S. Rooftop Tent Type Outlook (Volume, Units; Revenue, USD Million, 2017 - 2030)

• Hard-shell

• Soft-shell

U.S. Rooftop Tent Capacity Outlook (Volume, Units; Revenue, USD Million, 2017 - 2030)

• 2 Person

• 3 Person

• 4 Person

• 5 Person

U.S. Rooftop Tent Application Outlook (Volume, Units; Revenue, USD Million, 2017 - 2030)

• Personal

• Commercial

Order a free sample PDF of the U.S. Rooftop Tent Market Intelligence Study, published by Grand View Research.

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City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition

City of Refugees, Berlin Built Environment Exhibition, Aedes Architecture Forum News

City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition

6 Oct 2020

City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition

University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design: City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition

Exhibition: 31 October 2020 – 7 January 2021 Venue: Aedes Architecture Forum, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11am-6.30pm, Sun-Mon 1-5pm and Sat, 31 October 2020, 1-5pm

Of the 7.8 billion people on the planet, more than 70 million are now refugees and asylum seekers. With few countries willing to receive these displaced people, many refugees are restrained in tents, or makeshift cities. These temporary solutions often become permanent, which come with significant challenges. City of Refugees – a three-year research by the University of Houston College of Architecture and Design under the direction of the studio professors, Peter J. Zweig and Gail P. Borden – offers a provocative approach to the discussion of new solutions: Four imaginary cities on four continents were designed as prototypes for the accommodation of migrants providing facilities to meet their immediate needs and long-term opportunities for their self-empowerment. The exhibition at Aedes not only gives insights into the diverse aspects of these utopias, but also chronicles the plight and journeys of refugees in contemporary society.

The current global geopolitical landscape is indelibly marked by rising national and international conflicts creating multiple regions and countries beset by massive migrations. Likewise, the consequences of climate change and man-made environmental damage are forcing people to leave their homes. Many refugees are caught between borders because fewer countries are accepting the growing numbers. This often leads to them being trapped in refugee camps: Although these expanding settlements were intended as temporary tent communities, in reality they have become increasingly permanent.

Worth mentioning is the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which has existed since 1991. It has grown to become the largest of its kind in the world, with more than 600,000 people living in an area of just 13 square kilometres, stretching infrastructure and services to their limits. A more recent example of a permanent settlement is the Zaatari camp in Jordan where people have found refuge from the civil war in Syria since 2012. With an estimated 80,000 inhabitants, a main street with market stalls and shops, kindergartens and schools, solar power and a drinking water system, Zataari has become the fourth largest “city” in Jordan. However, the often forgotten, “temporary” communities are most often evolving into haphazard, ill-equipped, permanent locations that are in need of and reliant upon humanitarian support.

City of Refugees A three-year intensive sequence of design studios at the University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, under the direction of Peter Jay Zweig, FAIA and Gail Peter Borden, FAIA has developed a provocative approach to proposing four prototypical Cities of Refugees of varying sizes on four continents, ranging from 50,000 to 500,000 people:

• BRIDGE CITY in South America • gRADIANT CITY in Africa • SWITCHBACK CITY in Southeast Europe • UPCYCLE CITY in South Asia Each city is conceived as being universal in its architectural principles, yet by contrast, relies heavily upon local traditions whereby the residents of the City of Refugees are able to build their own homes: Thus combining universal and vernacular ideas can redefine the very origins of the contemporary city.

The Process: Developing a Utopia Before developing the urban design of these fictional places, the students analysed the annual U.S. military defence spending, which amounts to 700 billion USD. Professor Peter Zweig states: “By reallocating a minor portion of defence spending – less than ‘one-quarter’ of one percent of the military budget – a City of Refugees can be funded. For example, we propose that the construction of one submarine be delayed for one year to build out one entire city.”

It is within the framework of a reinterpretation of Thomas More’s 1516 book, Utopia, that the City of Refugees represents a place transcending the fate of those who have been displaced from their homeland. It is a concept for a city in a new context that welcomes migrants looking for a place to be free and act independently. As a U.N. sponsored, free economic zone, the four proposed cities would create a platform for a new multi-ethnic society based upon justice, tolerance and an economically viable, net zero environment.

These cities redefine the concepts of streets by eliminating the need for cars, rethinking sustainable technologies and engaging an architecture that is both vernacular and universal. Multiple areas around the world were proposed as possible sites for investigation in addition to the four prototype locations that were designed, such as: on the border of the United States of America and Mexico between the cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez on the Isla de Cordoba. This site, called “No Man’s Land” represented a place that could accommodate the rise in population of displaced people along the southern border of the United States and Mexico.

To quote Peter Jay Zweig: “The blending of local and social customs with the imported influx of refugees creates an environment that is committed to the idea of a ‘pledge’ given upon arrival to the city, for social acceptance through community volunteer programs, self-empowerment, education, shared communal kitchens and work spaces. Appropriate infrastructure eliminates the need for cars as the primary means of transportation: All points of the city are accessible within ten minutes. Alternative energy, water collection and locally available food become the primary source of sustenance and power for the city, while waste is innovatively recycled and self-contained toilets eliminate the need for sewage systems. The City of Refugees is a proposition to solve a problem that exists not only for refugees, but as a possible solution to climate change, the waste of natural resources and a commitment to rethink the origins of urbanism, while responding to the current global challenges.”

Exhibition In the exhibition and book, City of Refugees: A Real Utopia (AR+D publishers 2020 by Zweig + Borden) the contemporary global migration flows of those displaced is documented using a variety of maps and data and opens up a view on the profusely illustrated, innovative concepts of four prototype cities. The immersive exhibition at Aedes encompasses two simultaneous formats: one of physical models and drawings and the other in an augmented reality that coexists with the physical exhibition.

Directors Peter Jay Zweig is a Professor and Curator of International Exhibitions at the Gerald. D Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. He is principal of the award-winning Peter Jay Zweig Architects and an author of publications such as: Alternative Architecture, Risky Habit[at], Houston Genetic City, City of Refugees: A Real Utopia. As an exhibition designer, he has curated 15 major U.S. and international exhibitions. He has also received 80 worldwide patents for innovative building systems and materials for affordable housing built on six continents.

Gail Peter Borden is a Professor and Director of Graduate Programs at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. As principal of Borden Partnership, his design work has won numerous recognitions. His books include: Material Precedent; Matter; Principia; Process; Lineament and New Essentialism. As an architect, designer, artist, theoretician and practitioner, his work focuses on the role of materiality and architecture in contemporary culture.

The exhibition is part of the ANCB programme Borders and Territories: Identity in Place, which examines new spatial, geopolitical and cultural possibilities related to nations and people on our globe. Together with City of Refugees, the exhibition Purgatory by Ai Weiwei will be shown at Aedes Architecture Forum during the same period. Both exhibitions conclude the 40-years Aedes programme of 2020.

Further information: Aedes

We would like to thank the Aedes cooperation partners Zumtobel, Cemex, Camerich, Carpet Concept

Made possible with the generous support of Gerald D. Hines + Barbara Hines, Dean Patricia Belton Oliver

Description of the Four Utopian Cities

BRIDGE CITY South America | 50,000 people

Local Conditions: The city is located on the Rio Santiago in Ecuador near the Peruvian border just south of the equator. The location runs along a major Ecuadorian highway and is located within two miles of an airstrip. The location is ideal for a self-sustaining city. The resources are abundant for inhabitants to create and sustain a net zero city. The Sol LeWitt inspired structure acts as a bridge for the inhabitants across the Rio Santiago river, while creating local opportunities in industries such as: aqua-culture and a wharf for water markets. The Rio Santiago region is ideal for producing honey, fruit, vegetables and flower cultivation. Traditionally the local culture produces palm weaving and clay pottery, which can now be used in the construction of the homes for the city.

Architecture of the City: The architectural infrastructure is composed of a 30 x 30 x 30 foot grid, which bridges a populated river that is used for fishing, trade and commercial movement. The structural field has been eroded through light and wind apertures that allow for concentrated volumes to emerge within the regular geometry. Activated top and bottom through climatic and programmatic responses, the structure arches over the river and creates a performative rooftop landscape for solar and food production in park-like spaces. The infrastructure is free to take advantage of its location on the equator through hydroponics, recycled waste, water capture systems, and passive and solar energy production.

gRADIANT CITY Africa | 100,000 people Local Conditions: The city is located on east side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the edge of Lake Edward and on the border between DRC and Uganda. The unique site is composed of a very pronounced slope that allows the city design to be based upon the temperature differential of the mountain. As a hillside waterfront city, the urban form of the gRadiant City takes advantage of both the hill and the water through two linear structures. One structure that ascends the topography perpendicular to the adjacent body of water and another that parallels the waters’ edge. The slope generates a significant temperature gradient as one ascends in elevation.

Architecture of the City: The city is organised as a linear figure that ascends the topography perpendicular to the adjacent body of water. The ascending urban structure allows for temperature differentiations to determine the optimal position for crops. The line also exists as a gradient from the water’s edge with dissipating density from urban to suburban and, ultimately, rural as the city transforms from a water-based economy to a land economy. By combining a utopian typology with the local traditions of the vernacular, a unique architecture is produced. As a horizontal skyscraper that hovers over the landscape, the embedded and levitating programmes create shade and a unifying layer underneath the structural, performative roof.

SWITCHBACK CITY Southeast Europe | 250,000 people

Local Conditions: The city is located on the border between Serbia and Romania along the Danube River near the city of Tekija, Serbia. The location runs along a Serbian highway and is built inside of the cove along the river. The location is ideal for a self-sustaining city. The resources are abundant for creating and sustaining a net zero city, as well as an economy that can develop from the local lumberyards. The structure of the city allows for a symbiotic relationship between the inhabitants of the Serbian region, while also creating opportunities in industries such as: aquaculture and lumber for the fabrication of building material products and supplies. The area is ideal for terraced farming, homesteading and fishing.

Architecture of the City: Located in a cove on the river, the city is composed of embedded terraced landscapes that are linked through an ascending field of switchback streets. This unique urban pattern with six-storey buildings (in an organised three units up and three down) allows for a horizontally accessible vertical city. Using the wooded hillside as both an economy derived from the existing timber resources and as the material for the construction of the city proper, the wedge development along the cove allows for a sequentially phased evolution to the city. The position on the river allows for the wood products sustainably harvested to also invigorate the trade with nearby cities. Gondolas provide transportation without cars and make the city accessible within ten minutes in any direction.

UPCYCLE CITY South Asia | 500,000 people

Local Conditions: The city is located on the Coast of Bengal in Bangladesh near the border to Myanmar. The coast of Bengal is a ship graveyard where many unusable ships are stranded. Upcycle City will dismantle the unusable ships and re-innovate shipping containers into warm living units for refugees. Furthermore, the city will take advantage of the existing dam as a part of the infrastructure system. The city is divided into three zones: Sea, Land + Sea, and Land. The sea area consists of unused oil rigs intended as future agricultural centres. The shore will become an industrial zone used to dismantle and repurpose the big ships. The land area will be where most of the population will be living. The refugees will maintain their own free market, strengthened by the various skills of the individual inhabitants.

Architecture of the City: Founded upon the discarded technologies of the oil rig, freighter and the shipping container industry, Upcycle City develops both its economy and its tectonic morphology from these abandoned resources. Occupying the fluctuating waters’ edge between the flooded tidal plains, a railroad, an important highway and an existing dam, Upcycle City is divided into three zones: One is located on the water (oil rigs), the second on the beached edge (ship-breaking) and the third is fully on land (stacked and arrayed shipping containers), which are all arranged to create a collection of neighbourhoods and districts that organise the city. The city contains: circle crops, gondola’s crisscrossing main street in order to make the city accessible, containers enlisted for structural foundations, innovative infrastructural systems that approach net zero and a scaffolding circulation system all contribute to the unique architecture of Upcycle City.

Photography © Zweig + Borden

City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition images / information received 061020

Location: Christinenstr.18-19, 10119 Berlin, Germany

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2019 Tokyo Motor Show: Van Life, Japan Style

Van life was a big deal in the U.S. in the ’70s. Remember those port-hole windows, shag carpeted interior walls and ceilings, stripe jobs, and “If this van’s a rockin’…” stickers? There’s none of that extroverted nonsense in Japan, but mono-space one-box vehicles are everywhere around here, and some of them manage to exude a bit of personality. Here are some of our favorites we spotted around the show floor and grounds.

Nissan Elgrand & Toyota Granace

Remember the Nissan Quest minivan? It departed our market (or was it the other way around?) after 2017, but it lives on in Japan as the Elgrand. Right about now, you Quest owners may be wondering what it would take to graft this handsome face onto your family steed for a little JDM coolness, am I right? (Answer: probably more than your van is already worth). Meanwhile, Toyota rolled out its Elgrand competitor at this year’s show, dubbed Granace, a name that hints at its step up in luxury—as signified by its prominent grille and posh leather interior.

Toyota Hiace Craftplus & Nissan NV350

There was at least one van at the Tokyo show that paid homage to our hippie van culture. Parked out on a mall between two show halls with a bunch of food trucks, this Toyota Hiace was kitted out by Japanese upfitter Craftplus. Check out the wooden cabinetry, flooring, and steering wheel…and that leafy-pattern upholstery! Beats shag carpeting any day. The rooftop tent should also keep campers out of reach of the Asiatic black and Ezo brown bears that live in Japan. Craftwork sells similar upfit kits for the Hiace’s chief forward-control competitor from Nissan, the similarly styled NV350, which is sometimes called Urvan. Nissan introduced this new Black Gear appearance package at the show.

Suzuki Hustler

Okay, this one is really trying hard to look less like a kei-class van and more like an SUV, with its longer-than-normal hood and SUV stance. And indeed it’s very much a sibling of Suzuki’s mini-me Wrangler/Discovery kei-ute, the Jimny. Check out these unusual-for-a-kei-car features: standard live-axle rear-wheel drive with optional all-wheel drive and a center differential lock plus hill descent control. Sure, the ground clearance is less than Jimny’s and there’s an independent control-arm front suspension instead of the Jimny’s twin live axles, but the Hustler has to be the second most believable SUV in the kei class after the Jimny. It even offers knobby off-road tires, albeit skinny 17s. And there’s even a version in pink!

Nissan Dayz & Mitsubishi eK X

Note the striking similarity between these two kei-class vehicles that just arrived on the market earlier this year. Kei cars must fit within a strict 3.40 x 1.48 meter (133.9 x 58.3 inch) footprint with two height classes. They qualify for much lower taxes, hence about 30 percent of Japanese car sales are kei cars. NMKV, a Nissan/Mitsubishi joint venture, developed and builds both of these badge-engineered boxes. They offer an S-Hybrid option, LED headlamps, 9.0-inch nav system, a choice of front- or all-wheel drive, and on the Nissan, ProPILOT Assist smart cruise/lane keeping system. They both also feature a rear bench seat that can slide 9.4 inches fore/aft to apportion rear leg and cargo room as needed. We might take some convincing of the Nissan’s fitness to wear its “Highway Star” badge, however…

Honda N Van & Daihatsu Tanto

Honda’s N Van and Daihatsu’s Tanto share no common architecture or manufacture, but each offers the interesting feature of having no B -pillar. Both the front and rear doors can be opened and closed independently. Honda and Daihatsu chose to illustrate different ways of exploiting this feature: Honda set up a large toy vending machine in the huge opening between the A- and C-pillars. Daihatsu showed off its handicap-assisting Welcome Seat Lift feature. The passenger seat swivels around and then extends out and down to aid transition to/from a wheelchair. (Daihatsu’s range of “welfare” vehicle options also includes a Welcome Turn Seat that merely swivels without extending and lowering, a Power Crane to assist stowing a wheelchair in back, and a Sloper model with a rear wheelchair ramp).

Mitsubishi Super Height K-Wagon & Nissan Serena (& ’60 Plymouth)

Okay, one’s a tall kei-class car and the other’s a proper minivan, but they both seem to be channeling the tailfin look of a 1960 Plymouth. I mean, look at how the bodywork kicks up at the D-pillar! Mitsu’s K-Wagon is aimed at families with small kids, as the sliding rear side door is easier for them to work than the eK X’s hinged ones). The Serena offers an e-Power series hybrid powertrain, with a powerful electric motor driving the wheels as a 1.2-liter engine generates electricity, running at an optimal speed and returning 62 mpg. An interesting feature usually found on trucks and SUVs: the Serena’s power running boards.

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