Lie back.
Look up.
The backrest turns observing into a resting posture.
Most tents protect you from the night.
This one
opens to it.
01 / Why
The best stargazing sites already have tents.
STARRI makes the shelter part of the experience instead of the thing that blocks it.
Survey findingsTwo participant groups / 20 amateur stargazers + 60 active enthusiasts
75%
In a survey of 20 amateur stargazers, 75% were not confident identifying what they saw.
60
A separate survey of 60 active enthusiasts identified weather, transport, setup and light pollution as key barriers.
Wonder was already there.
The friction came first.
Two thesis surveys / 20 amateur respondents + 60 active enthusiasts / cohorts kept separate
Design brief / After the study
How might we make stargazing more accessible to curious beginners?
The study reframed the task around people who were already interested in the night sky but unsure how to begin. Every concept below explored a different response to this same brief; the tent emerged only as the selected direction.
02 / The move
Shelter to sky.
One gesture.
Overlapping roof panels rotate around a central pivot. No specialist setup. No calibration.
2lie back
4sit together
1rotating roof
Stay with
the sky.
22:10 / One night with STARRI
Lie back.
Learn
together.
Four people can point, compare and discover within one view.
Close when
the night changes.
The roof returns in the same readable movement.
03 / Proof
Then it stopped
being a render.
A full-scale prototype was built for the Final Design Degree Show at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
STARRI / Industrial design thesis
It does not bring the stars closer.
It helps people stay long enough to feel close to them.
Bhavook Singh / SPA New Delhi / 2026