CLIENT: General Motors Co. / Design Center. & University of Cincinnati DAAP.
WORK TEAM: NYAN Group:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT and design direction: Jorge M. Rodríguez C. (Jorge Rodz); DAAP UC PROJECT MANAGER: Juan Antonio Islas Muñoz; VEHICLE CONCEPT CONFIGURATION, PACKAGING AND INTERIORS DESIGN: Jorge Rodz: VEHICLE LANGUAGE DESIGN: Juan Antonio Islas Muñoz; EXTERIOR ESTHETICS IDEATION: MAD; ENVIRONMENT ILLUSTRATIONS: Arturo Millán H. & José Carlos Padilla. RENDERINGS AND CAD MODELING: Daniel Chinchilla Ochoa.

The Project was developed to envision the future of the services that the General Motors / MAVEN company could offer for 2035. The project involved the conceptualization and development of an autonomous mobility system and service. However, the NYAN team was given the task of conceptualizing one of the main vehicles of the system.

LOOP is a new vision of autonomous vehicular mobility, planned to provide multiple services. By taking advantage of the technological advantages that the near future poses, LOOP packages its motorization platform in two large lateral arms that pack the main power train components of the vehicle, in addition to having two powerful engines to the rear wheels.

This configuration allows LOOP to have a cabin completely free of mechanisms, which makes LOOP a very unique vehicle.

Additionally, as an important part of the project's objective, it was the design of the language that an autonomous vehicle must have in order to communicate with pedestrians, cyclists or citizens who are near the vehicle. This language of interaction, without a doubt, is a characteristic that an autonomous vehicle must incorporate in order to interact as a psychological entity in the urban ecosystem.

The vehicle was presented to the General Motors / Design Center Staff, creating a significant impact in their opinion.

1. This is the typical solution to the typical problem of an autonomous vehicle of minimal dimensions and that can move a person with some different capacity.

2. But an exciting vehicle, usually tends to have proportions that are opposite to those of the minimum car, conventionally designed. And what happens if we unify both proportions? What would happen?

3. What would happen if instead of having a typical skateboard platform with all the motor system packed under the vehicle, we had a cabin free of mechanisms and two side arms with the necessary mechanisms and components to make the vehicle work?

4. If the above were possible for 2035, we would have a vehicle that has the configuration of a robot with wheels, than a robotized vehicle. This conformation would give us a lot of freedom of movement in the cabin or passenger compartment and we could completely change the typical appearance of the typical car.

5. Aesthetic elements taken for the aesthetic development of LOOP.

6. With the technological advance in materials based on graphene filaments, OLED technology and other materials, we can change the conventional partitions of a structure to convert a vehicle into a mobile sculpture.

7. Final design themes of LOOP.

8. Design of an intelligent reconfigurable cabin to adjust its interior to as many uses as possible.

Vehicle basic Language code video.