Cities were first built at the water’s edge to benefit from its beneficence, but some are nowadays threatened by rising sea level and their lands will decrease while their growth always requires more space and the surrounding land no longer allow expansion. Building on the sea is more than conceivable, especially as technically feasible.
Several solutions exist today to build on the sea, the most common technique now is the landfill to create artificial land, however, the future rather belongs to floating architecture, less destructive to the seabed, but more flexible than land or landfill to allow mobility of facilities, where there are needs, no more destruction and reconstruction, place to relocation site.
New technologies are being developed to provide the foundation for these future large floating architectures, and the first achievements are in the ways of finalization. Ultimately, these floating architectures will be different from land architectures only by their foundations and their implementation. The way is open, but major preparatory projects are still needed to carry out cities on the water.
Designer : Stefan Hwang Tzy-Lung
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This is the age where world’s city centers are experiencing a rapid population growth that also effects the growth in the number of motorized vehicles on the road. The number of vehicles is the main cause of traffic jam and air pollution, so, in order to answer the challenge to create green and compact vehicle, Amir Zaid has come up with MUV-e scooter. It’s a foldable scooter, an alternative transportation solution from an Israeli company. MUV-e is a low energy, cost efficient vehicle, an ideal vehicle to give citizen green mobility in the city.
Amir Zaid established MUV-e company at the beginning of 2012, he’s a skilled automotive designer which has done extensive researches in car design and development industry.
Designers : Amir Zaid and Benny Shimon
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With the challenges of global warming and rising fuel crisis, we need an alternative to fossil fuel-powered vehicles. Most Indians are still reluctant to change from fuel powered vehicles to electric one and this action has impacted the electric vehicle market. Future Personal Transportation System project has been designed to answer that challenge which hopefully can help the country in transition to more eco-friendly form of transportation.
Designer : Sanu K R
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BeeHive Concept is the future vision of mega cities in 2030 by Yuhan Zhang. It’s an intelligent rental truck system that offers solutions to our existing problems: traffic jam, energy waste, parking lot, and many more. Yuhan has envisioned that in the future, city transportation system will be divided into 3 different tracks:
- Overground highway for high speed cars
- Ground for pedestrians and low speed vehicles
- Underground for subway
BeeHive concept proposes 2 main possible scenarios in the future:
Hive center
The Hive center is a base for parking and dispatching Bee trucks. There are many hive centers lines along the highway like chain store, saved parking space in the city.
Bee Truck
It is automated driving rental truck hired by customers through internet. Bee truck has two runing modes: High-speed mode which moves fast below the highway with electric magnetic power and Low-speed mode where the bee truck can land on the ground to deliver cargo to the person. Bees can only run in low speeds on ground for the safety of the pedestrian. When mission is accomplished, the Bee truck will search for the nearest hive center to rest while waiting for next job.
Designer : Yuhan Zhang
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Moto Vida concept scooter has been designed to become the first Brazil’s transformable motorcycle. Due to traffic, public transportation doesn’t seem to be able to answer the need of its citizens, anything that requires more than a walk might take a whole day to get there. Moto Vida offers adaptable, secure, compact, convenient, and affordable transportation. This scooter concept design was inspired by a simple posture transformation from casual to racing, it transforms with you.
Designer : Kevin Chang
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Envol portable desk is very handy in keeping everything neat and tidy. This concept table features modular and foldable design which provides you a more flexible desk compared to those already exists in the market. When we received this design submission, we thought … wow, could we buy this? It’s a simple desk yet extremely useful.
When you work from home, you can work on your bed, sofa or at terrace its raises a serious usability issue, related to transportation, physical posture, or storage of equipment. Envol is a modular and foldable desk that lets you work anywhere inside or outside your house. Envol prioritizes case of use with folding sides and space for user’s legs. The desk is locked in all 4 different positions and you can stock some basic working supplies in two different storages. Black parts are in polypropylene and sides in bent plywood. The aesthetic is very elegant and simple, the format compact when its closed. Envol is available in different colors and can match with your own personality.
Designer : Thibaut Rouganne
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Short Distance Travel Shopping Cart concept has been designed for a transportation design competition, you’re probably raising one of your eyebrows right about now and thinking what’s a shopping cart got to do with a transportation. Well, at first, we did feel the same way, but at closer look, it’s actually personal vehicle with a cart at the front. It’s a great transportation for short distance driving, safe and convenient, you don’t even have to worry about parking. Some supermarkets allow this cart to enter using a special passageway and this will definitely save your time. You can scan goods using the bar code on the cart to retrieve all details information such as expiration date, price, and ingredients.
Designers : Flora Zhu and Mei Chai
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National Geographic is famous for its daring expeditions and adventures, life-threatening challenges for all adventurers. Zaire is a concept vehicle which has been designed and developed for National Geographic in 2035, a tough all-terrain vehicle which is an ideal companion for anyone to explore places where no one would dare to venture before. Here’s what the designer says about Zaire:
In a different manner from existing Dakar Rally or F1, Volkswagen will provide National Geographic with very special car to promote its own technology power in 2035. It will have another promotion effect globally by providing National Geographic direction team of which history and recognition are solid with specialized cars. In 2035, National Geographic elite films team formed of 5 members leave for Africa. In order for them to catch the images of hidden regions and scenes of Africa, they needed their very own transportation equipment which can quickly breakthrough unpaved roads and survive through any environment. Therefore, National Geographic creates Zaire, which is formed based on the combination of Michelin of the Volkswagen and its previous technologies, and can drive through any circumstances. Innovative Zaire is released as personal transportation equipment for National Geographic elite films team under the cooperation with Michelin.
This vehicle is a unique transforming magnetic wheel system and is based on innovative mechanism as it possesses both frequency abilities and previous wheel mobility. Since it heads towards the hexagonal direction of greenhouse, it has been designed so that more diverse directions can be filmed. In addition, it has been designed in the way that it possesses spacious interior space with very wide left-and-right body and safe unturning position.
Designer : Dongman Joo
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Levitabeats loudspeaker was inspired by levitation technology to provide you with unique experience to enjoy music. Levitation technology can be applied in various industries, not just transportation, it’s an innovative technology that can shape our future. Apparently, Jongha Lee is fascinated by quantum levitation technology, thus inspiring him to apply this to a speaker which doesn’t only act as device that emits sound/music but also visually engaging the user. As the music plays, you can actually see how it’s played visually based on the bouncing luminous floating disk up and down reflecting the beats and rhythm of the music. It would be pretty cool to watch.
Designer : Jongha Lee
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Folding bike design evolves every single day in order to provide us with best transportation, easier and more efficient in big cities. This concept folding bike is built over an aluminum chassis that folds in the middle. The transmission is integrated in the structure and needs no chain, this way the maintenance is easier. When it folds, the high of the handle is perfect to let the user to pick it and take it easily inside any bus or train.
Designer : KILO Estudio
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Hey guys, it’s just a reminder, time is ticking. If you plan to join the competition the submission deadline is on February 28, 2013 so you better hurry.
Just in case you haven’t heard about A’ Design Award & Competition, it is one of prestigious design competitions that will make your work known to public. It has great PR push to get the world recognize your design, it’s a great chance for young designers to gain recognitions.
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Moveo foldable electric scooter will enter scooter market and revolutionize urban traffic with its beautiful organic design. It can be folded to size of a suitcase, very compact and lightweight (25kg without saddle bag). This e-scooter has been designed and developed to meet the needs of mobility in crowded urban traffic, it can reach up to 45km/h and 35km range. Its closed foldable body is so compact that you can easily store or move from one place to another using public transport, it doesn’t require any parking space.
Currently the company is looking for investor to mass produce Moveo. Their mission is to create eco-friendly transportation, just in case you haven’t heard about the company, they were among 50 best innovations by Time Magazine in 2010 for their hybrid concept car, Solo.
Designer : Antro Group
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Another year full of excellent designs from the best designers all over the world is soon to come as A’ Design Awards & Competition 2013 calls for submissions.
A’ Design Awards & Competition is a competition that showcases designs, design concepts and design oriented products of designers around the world. The award aims to give its winners a greater chance of being known to the public, exposed to PR push and advertisement opportunities. Because the award supports design culture from all corners of the earth, designer have the better chance of coming up with their best designs.
A’ Design Awards & Competition is an annual design competition that recognizes the designers, architects, engineers, design studios and design oriented companies that falls under the award’s major categories including product design, transportation design, lighting, digital devices, and packaging design. If you think A’ Design Awards do not cover your design, you need not to worry because the award has more or less eighty categories in total. It has furniture design, fashion, textile, lighting, and interior space to name a few. If you are interested in knowing all the categories available at the competition, complete list of categories are available at http://www.adesignaward.com/categories.html. If you have a new design and are not sure of its category, you can always choose the 24th category in the list, the Unexpected Design Award Category.
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The main goal of this “Folding Bike for Couriers” project was to design a useful, capacious, and compact mechanical means of transportation for couriers who work in a printing house. We’re not sure why it’s meant only for couriers of a printing house since it looks really handy for anyone who needs to deliver a package using a bike. Using this bike, you can place leaflets package or other polygraphy production in the plastic box and place it inside this bike’s compartment. For long distance travel where you have to use public transport, simply fold your bike and use it as a trolley. This fold bike features titanium frame while the compartment is made of ABS plastic.
Designer : Anton Kosteckii
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Vladimer Kobakhidze, a 29-year old Georgian car designer has sent us his Audi bike concept, a premium transportation for urban traffic to reduce pollution. Please don’t get confused by the name, it’s not an official concept from Audi, but clearly it was inspired by the famous Audi brand design philosophy.
In this fast growing population, the reloaded urban traffic and the polluted environment needs a sustainable, flexible, safe and comfortable bicycle device. It is a difficult task to find out the real innovation in this, in the bicycle design segment. The goal is pretty straight forward, design a family bicycle for “Audi” based on the general design and philosophy of this German automotive company from rationality, visibility and quality. It has to meet the principle of modern sportiveness for premium consumers.
The “Audi Bike” Design project combines the new family of the bicycles: The “Audi” Sports bike, the Folding bike and the electronic + (HP) humane powered Bike. All of them feature fluent lines, more surface transitions and sporty look with emotional appearance.
Designer : Vladimer Kobakhidze
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