2012: City 2046. Art, Life & Ingenuity.
Biography
Tejas Purohit
Project team leader/manager.
- Currently pursuing year 5 transportation at
DSK ISD International School of Design, Pune, INDIA - 2007-2012 Advance Diploma in Transportation Design
- 2006-2007 Fine Arts
- 2004-2006 Science Background
Kunal Kulkarni
Co-leader.
- Currently pursuing year 5 transportation at
DSK ISD International School of Design, Pune, INDIA - 2009-2012 Advance Diploma in Transportation Design
- 2006-2009 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
Rushikesh Galande
Designer
- Currently pursuing year 5 transportation at
DSK ISD International School of Design, Pune, INDIA - 2009-2012 Advance Diploma in Transportation Design
- 2004-2009 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
Divyanshu Mittal
Lead digital designer
- year 4 digital design at DSK ISD international school of design, Pune, INDIA
- Currently interning at FORM 3 Designstudios in Germany
- 2010-2013 Advance Diploma in Digital Design
Amruta Ghosalkar
Digital designer
- year 4 digital design at DSK ISD international school of design, Pune, INDIA
- Currently interning Futuring Desing India
- 2010-2013 Advance Diploma in Digital Design
Nischint Gavate
Junior designer
- Currently perusing year 4 transportation at
DSK ISD International School of Design, Pune, INDIA - 2010-2013 Advance Diploma in Transportation Design
- 2007-2010 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
Design Brief
After our analysis of the global and Mumbai’s scenario of 2046 we concluded:
India will be the second largest economy after China. Considering the economic growth there will be a significant growth in the average per capita income of Mumbai which is the financial capital of India.
With the booming economy there will be a population boom of about 76 million in Mumbai. This would create several space issues.
Considering the population growth there will be a massive increase in the number of skyscrapers and a very sophisticated multi-layered road network.
The temperature of Mumbai will rise up-to 4degree Celsius causing the water level to rise. The Government will come up with various solutions like flood barriers along the coast line to prevent such natural calamities.
Non conventional energy sources like, solar, wind, tidal will be the core of world energy supply.
Nano Technology and Artificial Intelligence will be used in every walks of life.
Our concept focuses on solving the space problem and providing a new user experience of commuting.
The car during parking goes inside the car in front.
Space Solution:
(1) Say if 2 cars are parked(stacked), exact 50% of the length of the car goes inside the car in front and 50% remains outside. so the total length of both the cars is 1.5 cars.
(2) So if cars of same length are parked without going inside each other the length will be 2cars+the distance between the 2cars.
Hence when cars are stacked upto 64% of the space is saved compared to the same amount of cars parked in a strait line.
User Experience:
The idea here is that you do not have to look for your car in the huge parking lot. The first car in the stacked lot is your car. The car adapts to your personalized settings when the car is in drive mode and changes the color/graphics and shape of the hammock as desired. This personalized data is stored on a servers which are owned by private brands. These brands look after the of maintenance of the vehicles such as repair and charging.
Scenario of usage:
The car travels with the average speed of 200km per hour or more considering the developed sophisticated multi-layered freeways.
The elegant stance of the vehicle reflects the Indian art and culture. And its features reflects the beauty and sophistication.
How does your design answer the anticipated preferences, lifestyles and transportation needs for the people in your country or region?
In 2046 the population of Mumbai will grow upto 76 million creating space problems.
Hence our concept solves the problem of saving space by stacking the cars into each other when parked.
What makes your design unique?
The Stack concept has a unique and innovative automobile architecture which mainly consists of two elements;
The Shell and the Hammock.
The Shell is the rigid outer structure which suspends the Hammock.
The Hammock is the flexible structure that creates the volume for the interior when expanded adapts to different users.
The opening of the door is inspired from the poetic blooming Lotus flower.
The asymmetric roof is inspired from the ‘Saree’ the traditional Indian dress of women, the layers of the roof help the aerodynamics of the vehicle creating the golf ball effect.
What technologies, innovations, lifestyle needs and concepts have you incorporated into your design? How?
The car is propelled by the magnetic levitation technology.
There are two magnets, one is the rotor magnet and other is the secondary magnet which is directly connected to the wheel.
The wheels are covered with the ‘wheel caps’ to prevent the magnetic fields disturb other technologies.
The gap between the two magnets created due to levitation acts as the shock absorbing system for the vehicle.
The tyre changes its width to 1/3 of its original width this helps the cars to stack easily. The changing of the tyre width is done with the help of two sets of elliptical tubular skeleton which is pivoted at four joints.
The vehicle is powered by four batteries which are placed inside the wheel cap.
The shell consists of solar cells which generates energy which is stored in the batteries.
The Hammock is made of flexible carbon nano fabric which is stretched with a specific tension during stack mode and expands during drive mode to adapt to the user needs creating the interior volume.
The Shell and the Hammock projects different colors, graphics and patterns desired by the user.
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