Carcerano is a company that specialises in services and design in the fields of Automotive Design, Transportation and Industrial Design, Architecture and Communications. Founded in 1980 by Piero Luigi Carcerano, an architect, and based on the experience of the CPL Architecture and Design Studio, the Carcerano Company can presently count on a team of approximately 120 professionals, in Italy and in India.

The Carcerano Company is also a Research Laboratory recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education for the University and for Research (Ministero Italiano dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca) with executive decree number 1166, 31/07/02, and is certified by the International Norms ISO 9001:2000. In fact, it is a standing observatory on new technology and its potential new applications and use. The work methods, optimized during the 1990’s in the Research Laboratory allows for on-the-spot supervising of a project in real-time in the Virtual Reality Centre,  its functionality is composed of 3 rooms, all of truly high technological capacity.
 

Up to today, the Carcerano Company has completed large projects for a variety of important clients on a national and international scale. Be it in the Automotive sector, Aeronautics, or that of Railway Networks, the Carcerano Company has always guaranteed a stable quality of product and displayed a completeness regarding competence in the field able to respond with aptitude in different circles and in diverse sectors of work.

In the past, diverse Carcerano Concept Cars have established the company’s research with special merit regarding style and innovative technology. Starting with the “Triagmos” car which, above all others, has exemplified  that particular use of kinetics – born from the combination of human intelligence and digital creativity – on to the “New York” car, defined as “a true laboratory of aesthetics” , where fundamental principles such as proportion, symmetry and harmony take on a concrete form; to the “Granturismo” car, born from the fruitful meeting between Lancia and Carcerano, an effective alliance of great significance; leading to “Koi City Car”, which takes its name from a fish, the carp, moving away from the deep waters to the network of city streets and thus making it its natural habitat. And yet, we must mention the before last novelty, GEM City Car, conceived in the Carcerano Research Centre as a research project for a City Car completely controlled with the help of electronics.