BMW Gina - a re-interpretation of familiar functionality and structure
BMW's new GINA concept car offers incredibly complex design by incorporating a lightweight, durable, flexible, cloth skin pulled taut around a frame of aluminum and carbon fiber wires. Electro-hydraulic controls can actually move and change shape of the car beneath the fabric skin to adjust for current conditions such as speed and weather. The most striking example are the headlights. When the headlights are not active, they are smoothly hidden under the fabric skin. When the driver turns on the lights, the fabric "blinks" opens and reveals the BMW head-lights. Even the interior is skinned with flexible, Neoprene, only revealing the dash components that are needed.
Check out the sculptural aesthetics of the convex-concave elements in this video. Would be interesting to see the original CAD.
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