URBNC3 Custom Smart Sandals - 3D Printed Footwear Revolution
Unlock Ultimate Comfort and Wellbeing with Customizable Sandals. Swiss Design & Tech. Sustainable European Craftsmanship. Urban Style.
If you are looking for a long-term, sustainable and urban lifestyle shoe, look no further — URBNC3 has the perfect sandal for you, At URBNC3, we believe that you deserve the joy of stylish sandals that offer comfortable walking and prevent negative impacts from non-fitting shoes, all while contributing to a healthier planet.
Whether it’s for city trips, long walks with your dog, at work, for a brunch or shopping trip, don't squeeze your feet into pre-shaped sandals or muggy sneakers anymore and make a statement with your shoes as individual as you, Scan your feet with your mobile phone and get your tailored sandals with 3D printed foot beds. Designed in Zurich, Switzerland, each shoe is sustainably made in Europe with vegan and bio-based materials, combining handcraftsmanship with cutting edge technologies.
URBNC3 sandals were developed to solve the foot pain experienced by our founders. When one of our co-founders sought medical advice, she was told to return only when the pain worsened. Why should we wait for problems to arise before a solution is found? From there, the mission of URBNC3 was born, We use advanced technology to create shoe soles designed specifically for you. Our automated processes allow us to customize your shoe soles within seconds, incorporating unique lattice structures that provide individual corrections like arch support.
URBNC3 focuses on delivering customizable, high-quality sandals designed to meet the exact needs of your individual foot. Given there is over 10 different foot shape categories, it is impossible for a standard shoe to accommodate everyone's personalized needs. In addition, URBNC3 sandals provide ergonomic foot bed corrections using sustainable materials, benefiting both the consumer and the planet.
Committed to both minimizing material waste and eliminating toxic substances, URBNC3 uses bio-based materials and components that can be composted or recycled and minimize microplastic pollution. Once worn-out, just return them to us and we’ll take care to close the product life cycle, Our research & development team is testing new materials and designs on a daily basis out from Zurich, Switzerland, while our production partners are based in Europe. Enjoy the new freedom at your feet to the max with long-lasting sandals.
While the shoe soles will be modeled and 3D printed in our own facilities based in Zurich, they will be assembled to sandals by our manufacturing partners based in Europe, Thanks to short shipping distances between production steps, we are able to keep oversight of quality and sustainability requirements at the local production sites while reducing the environmental impact of shipping.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! You are helping us to make a step towards changing the fast fashion footwear industry into a more customized and sustainable future, We focus strongly on customer and expert inputs to develop products that make a change for you and the footwear industry. Driven by research, innovation and collaboration with specialized partners, we have been iteratively improving our product.
When we developed our latest prototype together with our fashion designer Kristýna, we knew we got it: May we present our protected designs including interchangeable straps for extra customization, Our mobile scanning app has been developed by biomechanical experts in Europe by using modern technologies based on AI and data driven 3D models. Thanks to thousands of foot scan data points, 3D models of your feet are captured and reconstructed very precisely with over 20 foot measurements.
Based on your foot models and measurements, your personalized shoe soles will be modeled automatically within seconds thanks to our customized modification technologies developed with orthopedic and podiatric experts. Before delivery, each pair of sandals will go through a quality check, We have been collaborating with Prof. Dr. Christof Brändli and his team, who is Professor for Adhesives and Polymeric Materials at ZHAW School of Engineering, to research and test sustainable materials suitable for footwear. Thanks to this collaboration, we are now the first one to commercially 3D print biopolymer material from another Swiss startup that minimizes microplastic abrasion and the ecological footprint of shoe soles.
Designers, podiatrists & orthopedic experts, shoe makers & factories, engineers, 3D modelers, material experts, sustainability and circular economy experts, startup peers and advisors, logistic advisors, the URBNC3 team and many more parties have been contributing to bring us to the stage where we are now. Check out the video that demonstrates our product.
Transparency is the basis for trust. A minimum viable product has been developed, and we are currently testing the beta product with 50 individuals & test customers, and their feedback is being integrated into the development on an ongoing basis. By the time of the Kickstarter delivery, the comfort and materials will be further optimized to guarantee the highest quality possible.
Feasibility has been proven, however, the automation of all processes to produce large amounts of orders is dependent on time and financial resources. Hence, your support will bring URBNC3 to life, Our story began in 2020 when we struggled to find the right fitting shoes ourselves, especially when it came to sandals. We noticed that the shapes often didn't match our own feet, and the foot bed without the right arch support caused us pain when walking.
This experience sparked our mission to create shoes that not only look great but also prioritize comfort and foot health. We believe that everyone deserves to feel comfortable and stylish in their shoes, and that's why we are dedicated to bringing our vision to life. We can't wait to share our passion with you, We are pursuing the vision of sustainably changing the shoe industry that is still very traditional. For this purpose, we want to completely redesign the value chain of shoe production, based on 3D printing, digitization and circular economy. We fight the prevailing culture of mass consumption and returns in the fashion industry by producing tailored and on demand.
To pursue their passion for a product that excites them and solves their personal problems, Linda and Roman have given up their banking & consulting careers. Together with PhD candidate Philipp and Fashion Designer Kristyna, we made a passionate founding team based in Zurich, Switzerland, with backgrounds from some of the most renowned business, tech, and fashion schools in Europe, such as the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zurich), and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (VSUP).
URBNC3 has since then grown to a global team of 12 people, based in Europe and the US, united by the same passion of combining health, sustainability and fashion to find new innovations and improve our lives. Our ecosystem and team consist of podiatrists, marketing & sales specialists, material suppliers, research & manufacturing partners, 3D modelers, product & visual designers, product and software engineers, developers.
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