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Group project (Designskolen Kolding)
In cooperation with Volkswagen, Tongyi University Shanghai, etrans Denmark
Duration: 6 weeks
Year: 2011

 

Imagine if your car could talk to you, if every time yourcar needed something it could communicate with you inan unobtrusive way that led you know what exactly theissue was. With the Pan roof this is finally a possibility. 

Five week service design project made in Shanghai for etrans and Volkswagen. We designed interior for electrical car in order to make it so attractive that would be first buyers first choice. We made panoramic interactive roof that helps the driver and passengers creating better driving experience. Roof is made of transparent screen that interacts between the driver and the passengers. You can help the driver by choosing navigation coordinates and sending them to front windshield or choosing interactive theme for roof to create a nice atmosphere.

The electric car is less complex when it comes to driving it and research shows that younger drivers feels more secure. At the same time this is a generation, which has other values when it comes to style and design, and prioritizes differently to those drivers dominant on the roads today. They might make their choice based on design and ‘niceness factor’ over func- tion and rational parameters. <span "color:="" #7f7e7e;="" font-size:="" 12px;="" line-height:="" 16pxspan="" class="main-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(127, 126, 126); background-color: transparent; text-align: center; ">Pan roof is a panoramic glass roofthat spans across the width of you electriccar. This way you are able to change theatmosphere of the car, communicate to thecar and to the other passengers in the car.