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The Diploma presentation. Saab Coupé by Sinica Birgljevic
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H2 Coupé for VW by Sven Vollhardt
'Visionair' by Thomas Rhöm
'Djado project' by Daniel Simon
The Book of Djado
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Students at Germany's Pforzheim University have recently displayed their work in the school's annual Transportation Design Diploma show. The display included work from the graduating BA Diploma students, MA students, as well as work from the first year students.
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The Pforzheim course is considered one of the leading Transportation Design courses in Europe, offering BA and MA degrees. The exhibition showed a very high level of attention to detail and presentation, with highly resolved design solutions. This semester there were 12 Diploma students graduating.
Sven Vollhardt presented a hydrogen fuel cell powered VW coupé, with a form inspired by the transparency and flow of water. The doors are fully transparent, and the fuel storage cylinders are visible through the rear glass. The fuel cells are partly exposed as a visual element at the sill, behind the front wheels. While a complex design, a very consistent form language ties all of the elements together.
Visionair’ by Thomas Rhöm uses ground effect air cushioning to allow a high speed vehicle to travel computer controlled up to 500km/h. The Visionair is a mixture of car and aircraft, mixing the advantages of both (practicality and speed), and is seen as a four-seater for dedicated high-speed inter-urban freeways of the future.
Daniel Simon's presentation was a Zeppelin project called the ‘Djado fleet’, which showed numerous different concepts for floating in air transportation, set against a mysterious and intriguing story about a sub-Saharan Zeppelin cruise line. The presentation included a huge book filled with the illustrated story behind the Djado fleet and the making of the project, reminding of the sort of design concepts one would expect for a science-fiction film.
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