The key to affecting the development
of tomorrow's mobility lies in our readiness
to challenge what is established and
in the ability to present new options. In
order to meet these objectives, BMW
Group Design taps into the potential of the
GINA principle (Geometry and Functions In
"N" Adaptions) which promotes innovative
thinking by allowing maximum freedom of
creativity.
GINA produces dramatically different
solutions that affect the design and functionality
of future cars. The GINA Light
Visionary Model is an optical expression of
selective, future-oriented concepts that
provide an example of the manner and
extent of this transformation. BMW Group
Design is not just interested in answering
the question of how the car of the future
will look but primarily wishes to explore
the creative freedom it has to offer. Both
of these aspects are affected by the
requirements that future cars are expected
to meet.
All ideas that the GINA Light Visionary
Model presents are therefore derived
from the needs and demands of customers
concerning the aesthetic and functional
characteristics of their car and
their desire to express individuality and
lifestyle. The GINA Light Visionary Model
has an almost seamless outer skin, a flexible
textile cover that stretches across a
moveable substructure. Individual functions
are only revealed if and when they
are needed.
With this model, BMW Group Design
initiates a fundamental discourse about
the characteristics that will affect the
development of cars in future. It is therenew
fore fundamentally different
from concept cars, which
reflect what is expected of
them by implementing as
many elements as possible
in a future production model.
In contrast, the GINA Light
Visionary Model is a vision of
future cars and serves as an
object of research.
Putting its visions of
tomorrow's car into practice,
BMW Group Design has
developed a two-seater
roadster with the unique
dynamic proportions that
are typical of its brand.
The GINA Light Visionary
Model takes the sculptural
design that has already
been established by a number
of production cars to a
new, unparalleled conclusion.
The car's front and
sides, including the doors,
create one single uninterrupted,
seamless whole
that converges to form an optical as well
as a structural unit.
In order to create this appearance, it
was necessary to move beyond all previous
conceptions of car body configuration,
design and materials. Therefore, the
GINA Light Visionary Model has dispensed
with the usual body elements
found on production vehicles such as
front apron, bonnet, side panels, doors,
wheel arches, roof, trunk lid and rear
deck. Instead, a new structure with a minimum
amount of components has taken
their place. A special, highly durable and
extremely expansion-resistant fabric
material stretches across a metal structure.
This new material offers designers a
significantly higher level of freedom of
design and functionality. The body consists
of only four elements. The largest
component extends from the front of the
vehicle to the edge of the windscreen and
down the sides to the rear edge of the
doors. The large side panels start at the
front where the rocker panels emerge
and run across the rear wheel arches
into the rear. The fourth component is
the central rear deck element.
