Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards 2010
The Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards are a prestigious set of awards where budding entrepreneurs alongside creative inventors can get together to share their ideas. Over the last few years, we feel like a lot of the products and ideas developed here are likely to have a positive impact on future vehicles.
The 2010 awards saw David Seesing get involved. Based in Cologne in Germany, he was able to pick up the award for Best Use of Glazing thanks to his ‘Symbiosis’ concept car. His car incorporated a unique structure which was able to combine an eye catching design with functional transport.
The idea for this award was for designers and inventors to develop ideas that were not only going to work, but were also going to be sustainable if manufacturers ever took them on board. It seems that the idea was taken on board well, with many designers reaching and going beyond what any of the judges expected they could do.
Now, these awards are not to be sniffed at, with leading designers on the panel, such as Land Rover Designer Earl Beckles. The reason that Seesing caught the eye of the panel was his innovative approach towards dealing with the issues that were at hand. Of course, designs came thick and fast, but ones that took into account the sustainability and environmental factors were few and far between.
What Seesing has managed to create is a double glazing unit, which certainly helps with air flow. This being said, the air is collected and stored as energy, energy that would have otherwise been wasted. As far as car designs go, there is literally nothing else like this on the market – which is understandable, as the development costs would be ridiculous.
The Symbiosis is certainly the next generation of car and as development costs for this type of thing reduce, it will certainly come to market in some form or another. Just take into account the pure architecture behind the vehicle.
It uses a chassis that is produced using the likes of aluminum and carbon nano-tubes. Why? This has been used because it increases the heat and electricity within the material, meaning that it needs less energy than a normal vehicle!
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