More detailed images of the Lancia-dedicated
concept car project which students from the Istituto Europeo di
Design (IED) of Turin will present at the Geneva Motor Show
have emerged. The IED is an
institution that is now well established worldwide as one of
the top car design schools, will be presenting a project,
for the third consecutive year, at the Geneva International
Motor Show.
Lancia Haizea
The project the IED will present is entitled Haizea, a
concept car designed by the students of the Master
RSP in Transportation Design - work experience (a.y.
2004-2005.)
The
full scale model (length 4965 mm, width 1935 mm, height
1420mm, wheel base 2720 mm) is the result of research
into the identity of the Lancia brand carried out within
the context of the Transportation Design Master Course, that
aimed to identify the values that best represent the
Manufacturer’s image. The project started out by assessing
the various identities associated with Lancia cars over the
last century: its sporting look and its luxury status for
example. The process has involved the analysis of the most
significant styles and models that have contributed to
establishing Lancia’s prestige and character of the years
and that still to this day are considered guiding
principles, setting the course for the ongoing development
of the Company.
The students, led by Hernan
Charalambopoulos, Course Coordinator and Head of IED
Automotive, have come up with a concept car that
highlights the brand's sporting essence. This concept car
has been developed around a frame devised in such a way as
to provide the utmost level of both active and passive
safety. The mechanical parts of the rear wheel drive engine
are housed in a central-rear position, and together with the
addition of two electric motors placed above the front
wheels, an excellent compromise in terms of distribution of
weight, traction and mass has been reached. The passenger
compartment, designed around a central chassis developed
lengthwise and to which the seats and the instrumentation
panel are anchored, absorbs energy in case of a head on
collision and provides the structure with both an aesthetic
and a functional purpose, not just a load bearing one. This
particular chassis structure, “dressed” externally in such a
way as to highlight the vehicles architectural values, plays
on the asymmetrical disposition of the vehicle’s masses in
order to induce a strong sense of movement in the viewer.
This movement recreates a feeling of speed thus arousing the
sensation of an encounter with a wind (Haizea:
“wind”, in the Basque language).
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Haizea is a
concept car that has been designed by the students of the Master
RSP in Transportation Design - work experience (a.y.
2004-2005). |
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The Istituto Europeo di
Design of Turin, an institution that is now well
established worldwide as one of the top car design
schools, will be presenting a project, for the third
consecutive year, at the Geneva International Motor
Show. |
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It will be the third consecutive year on show at the Geneva
International Motor Show
for IED Turin:
and each time with research projects involving important
companies of the automotive sector (Fiat Research Centre,
2004; Fiat, 2005), further proof of the strong connection
that the School has managed to build up with the main sector
companies.
"I must point out – Cesar Mendoza, IED
Turin Director says – that once again the project
developed in the context of the Master Course has been
carried through with great dedication and commitment on
behalf of the entire classroom.
For the students, the opportunity to study the Lancia brand
and design Haizea has undoubtedly led to a development of
their professional skills that we believe will give them a
valuable edge when they face the challenge of entering the
job market".
The project that IED is
presenting in Geneva is the result of a selection that
started out with eleven original proposals; six of
these have become 1:4 scale models that were
subsequently narrowed down to the three final models.
From these, we have come down to Haizea, the final
model, that stems from the initial project indications
presented by Iker Lòpez (for the exterior) and Yavuz Akyldiz
(for the interiors), which, after the final selection stage,
have represented the basis around which the entire student
group has then worked.
Haizea
is a project
by: Yavuz Akyldiz, Francesco Blancato, Ricardo Casillas,
Lilia Vasileva Chernaeva, Dibyendu Roy, Atsuo Fukuhara,
Giuseppe Giacomino, Iker Lòpez Totorika, Samir M. Mahadik,
Sabrina Maria Raso Pinheiro Cardoso, Gustavo Alkmim Uemura,
with the collaboration of Manuele Amprimo, project tutor and
Carlo Palazzani, project assistant, both previously IED
students. The model was produced in collaboration with:
Vercarmodel, Automotive
Lighting, Continental,
CTF -
Center Tecno Freno,
Elaborare, OZ Racing, Model Resine.
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