Winner of "Young Designer Award" / Exterior - 2019
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2 weeks
Briefing: in PRAISE OF SLOWNESS
Cars have always evolved in performance: speed, handling, comfort, etc.For decades, top speed was surely the purchasing number one criteria.Today, speed limits are widespread throughout the world and vehicles are increasingly equipped with speed limiters. We realize today that it is actually more important to concentrate on the average speed rather than the top speed. Management of traffic flows represents a major challenge for the improvement and smoothing of traffic.What if vehicles drove slower but more fluidly tomorrow?
Speed variations and “stops and starts” strongly influence energy consumption. A constant speed of vehicles would ensure very important savings.Autonomous and therefore self-regulated vehicles will perfectly match traffic flow. Imagine, sketch, design a vehicle which will no longer be designed to evolve at high speed. The reduction of the speed would allow strong simplifications of the vehicles (soundproofing, resistance to shocks, etc.).
How would a car designed for low speeds look like?
Could we imagine hopping into a vehicle while driving as we used to do with city buses? Slow speed should not be synonymous of bulky design and should not exclude automotive design DNA. Your work will consist in developing new styling codes evoking an assumed slowness.
Young Designer Award /Exterior - Awarding Ceremony of the 34th Festival Automobile International - Paris
Photo credits:Guillaume Ombreux and François Leprat