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L-CHAOAUTUMN 2016

ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN

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“…are you sure you want to do just car design? you’re too talent for our industry, it’ll be a waste for you to be just a sketch monkey…” - Jae Min, Chief Designer at Volkswagen Group of America, Design Center California

“…you are a clever problem solver, Alan.” - Denis Campbell , former CEO at CALTY, Toyota Design Studio, CA

“that ‘ass’(car clay model) looks beautiful!‘–Richard Pietriska , AFAS, Automotive Fine Art Society

“… you’re a funky designer, and very original…” - Rodrigo Castaman-Tesla Motor Interior Design

“…its always fun to look at your design…” – Michael Hritz – Piaggio, Exterior Design

“… your imagination is very wild, you should consider Entertainment design…” - Bumsuk Lim - known Art Center Professor, former senior designer at both G.M. & Honda Advance Studio

Alan Chao, is the name who these designers are referring to; Recently graduated from Art Center College of Design in Transportation design major.

What do I think I can offer to the industry? Besides being super practically creative? I think I am a designer who understands the language of engineering and social impact possibility. And to fill in the gap where sometime a great design, really needs to add an appealing skin, to catch the masses viewers attention; this way, they will continue reading what is offering them.

Having the mindset for concept development, brainstorming, field study, give-and-take constructive criticism among colleagues, with the skillsets of analog and digital visual communication, 3D modeling pro-grams like Autodesk Alias, Auto-cad, Solid-works, Google Sketch-Up. To physical modeling techniques from foam, clay, wood, leather, fabric, 3D Print, CNC…etc. I AM READY TO WORK!

I believe that a new design; big or small, should not waste the op-portunity to make differences in the world. That is why I always push the depth of mine design, and the believe of I am the perfect candidate for the design studios.

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Alfa Romeo 2C

Jaguar C-X70

Citroen 2E

Yamaha Mobility

Land Rover Project-Ger

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Alfa Romeo 2C

THE LOST FUN

ENGINEER ROMANCE&

DRIVING PURITYFOR WHOM DESIRE

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ROAD LEGAL TRACK CAR For speed chaser, who enjoys pure driving experiences; but do not want all the excessive features, pure driving/pure fun.

2 IN 1 CHASSIS Reversible chassis design that can switch in between FR/MR setup by driver’s mood.2 car fun, in price of 1

EXCHANGEABLE SKIN Different chassis setup, will need different seating package arrangement, meanwhile exchange/customize-able exterior skin can show off driver’s characteristics.

ELECTRIC POWER Race in green, instant power de-livery, flexible power configuration, tighter/smarter packaging.

REVERSIBLE CHASSIS FOR

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

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With shareable/ separable components; using only one driver seat, which can switch in-be-tween different car setups. One can optimize endless possibilities with minimal spendable components needed like other customizable cars. If different characteristic of the car is needed; by buying different skin/cover over

the car, it will be easily switched by few screw on and off over the key car components. When other skin is no longer in need, it is still a piece of art that one can be hang on walls of living room/man-cave.And with every car component that can be modify, one can simply order it, and switch dif-

ferent battery pack, number of electric motors (RWD/AWD) different suspension setups. All can be easily fit on one open platform. That, one race car, can be tailored to each different race condition needed.

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AS TIME WENT BY

FUN DRIVING BECOME MORE EXCULISIVE AND EXPENCCISEIVE

OUR PASSION CAN ONLY EXCIST IN UNREALISTIC WORLD

BUTHAVING THE MANUFACTURE

TECHNOLOGY NOW

IT IS TIME TO ENGINEER SOMETHING THAT BRIDGES

GAMING&

REALIETY

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SPEED CHASER

WHO HAVE THE ENGINNERING KNOW-HOW, AND URGE TO COSTOMIZE HIS ONLY TRACK CAR

HIS PIECE OF ART

TO CONCOUR ALL COURSES.

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JAGUAR C-X70

REDEFINE ELEGANCE

REFINEMENT&

ETHEREALFOR WHOM BREATH ON

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TAILORED

COUPE PROPORTION

CRYPTIC BACKSEAT

SOPHISTICATED ACTIVIST

FOR BUYERS WHO CARES ABOUT SELF-IMAGE REPRESENTATIONIN EVERY POSSIBLE SITUATIONWHO IS NOT BLINDLY FOLLOWING THE TREND.

WHEN IN DRIVING POSITION, YOU ARE THE CENTER OF ATTENTION. NO SEARCH FOR WHO IS IN THE BACK.

PRIVACY IS WHAT THE BACK-SEAT BUYERS ARE LOOKING FOR, DURING TRAVELING, WHAT HE/SHE DO SHOULD NOT BEEN SEEN.

GLAMOROUSNESS TO THE DETAILYET PHILOSOPHICALLY PUT A REA-SON BEHIND A REASON.

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bmw 6 series gran coupe2968/5007

bmw 7 series3070/5072

Rolls-Royce Phanton Coupe3320/5609

F+ SEGMENT

wheelbase /legnth****/****

To stands out from the crowd of typical F-segment,and suit the grand-coupe proportion; F+segment will be significantly longer than F-segment.Ultimately will be almost as long as RR Phanton

Coupe size, but in a sedan form; where one can haveextended dash to axial ratio, giving a power-houseimagery.

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TIME TO TIME

F-SEGMENT OWNERSARE MISTAKEN AS

DRIVING FOR SOMEONE ELSE

MORE IMPORTANT

C-X70 IS DESIGNED FOR

SHIFT THE VISUAL ATTENTION

BACK ON THE DRIVER

SO YOU LOOK GOOD DRIVING IT

DIVER≠

CHAUFFEUR

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CAR TO DRIVEAND BE DRIVEN

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NEW HORIZON

CITROEN e

FOR WHOM ADORES

SEAMLESS TRAVEL EXPERIENCE&

FUTURE-LAND CONTRIBUTION

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Z-AXIS DESIGN

FOLD CONSTRUCTION

SHARE PLATFORM

VERTICAL SOLAR FARM

AS WE FIGHT FOR X&Y SPACE, WE SHOULD THINK CONSTRUCTIONS THAT IS ORIGINATED IN VERTICAL.LIKE OUR SKYSCRAPERLIKE MOTHER NATURE TREES

INSTEAD OF ‘BANDING’ OUR VEHI-CLE CONSTRUCTION. WE SHOULD FOLD OUR CAR INTO SIMPLE TWO FLAT PANELS.

LESS UNIT IS NEEDED FOR CITIZENS TO TRAVEL WITHIN ITS CITY PE-RIMETER, THEN HAVE PERSONAL UNIT PARKING/ TAKING FOOTPRINT SPACES IN CITY/ WHEN IT IS NOT IN USE.

LIKE HOW MOTHER NATURE DE-SIGNED TREES. WITH LIMITED FOOTPRINT SPACE IN CITY, HAVING SOLAR FARM LAYOUT VERTICAL-LY IS MUCH MORE EFFICIENT AT FOOTPRINT USAGE. WHILE DOUBLE THE FUNCTIONALITY OF BUILDING ENVELOPE.

FOLDING VEHICLE SYSTEM THAT SOLVES

SPACE CONJUNCTION

WHILE

REGENERATE ENERGY BACK TO CITY GRID

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NEXT GENERATION URBANITES HAVE LESS DESIRE OF A CAR

BECAUSE OFTRAVEL CONVENIENCES AND COST OWNERSHIP

WITH THISSHARE PLATFORM SYSTEMWHICH TACKLE TO SOLVE

PROBLEMS OF

TRAFFIC CONJUNCTIONPARKING SPACE PARKING COSTUSAGE RATE...

WHILE REDEFINITION

OUR ENERGY ORIGINAND

MULTI-PURPOSINGA SINGLE DESIGN OBJECT

WIN, WIN...

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folding car

sub-urb.

public facilities

With our skyscraper filled with P.V. Panels, which shares with this “E” project, we are creating a vertical solar farm in our city.

That generates energy not solely from unsustainable ener-gy resources. But being somewhat self-sustainable grid.

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STAGE 1 - BOTH SKIN/STRUC TURE/INTERIOR ARE FOLDED IN FLAT POSITION

STAGE 2 - EXPANSIONS OF FOLDED VEHICLE INTO WORKING POSITION

STAGE 3 - P.V. PANELS FOLDS OUT WITH AN JOIN ERY ON THE TOP, WHERE TWO PANELS JOINS.

STAGE 4 - JOIN BOTH THE P.V. PANELS WITH THE VEHICLE

BY CALCULATION, A TYPICAL 40 STO-RIES HIGH SKYSCRAPER WITH FOLD-ING VEHICLE, CAN SAVE UP TO 180

TIMES OF CONVENTIONAL PARKING FOR MID SIZE SEDAN.

BICYCLE

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SAMRT FOR 2

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8.64 / 1.6 = 5.4 + EXCESSIVE = 6X /LAYER2 FLOOR HIGHT = 1 LAYER

40 STORIES SKYSCRAPER/2 X6 = 180 X

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AS ANY PASSENGER WITH ‘ ‘ APP., ONE CAN GO TO THE NEAREST STATION (WITHIN 2 BLOCKS) AND ASSESS OF FOLDING CAR SERVICE.

WITH SIMPLE MECHANISM, ‘E’ CAR WOULD UNFOLD / ASSEMBLE ITSELF READY FOR USE. IDEALLY EACH STATION/ BUILDING WOULD HAVE 40+ UNITS

FLOWING AROUND THE CITY .

WITH PHONE APP. ACCESS, USER WOULD HAVE ALREADY ENTERED DESTINA-TION AND/OR PREFERRED ROUTE WITH POSSIBLE STOP-BY POINTS.

WITH AUTONOMOUS DRIVE SYSTEM, RIDER CAN ENJOY THE RIDE FOR PERSONAL TASKS, NAP, OR TOUR THE CITY BY ANY PREFERENCE.

IF IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE ONE WOULD WANT TO SWITCH TO MANUAL MODE, CONTROLLING THE VEHICLE CAN BE EASILY DONE BY APP. TOGGLE.

BY STUDY, COMMUTE WITHIN THE CITY IS AVERAGED TO 15 MINUTES. WITH THIS TRAVELING RANGE, BATTERY PACK IS REVELATORY SMALL. WHICH EFFECTS THE OVERALL WEIGHT OF THE VEHICLE. LIGHTER CONSTRUCTION, LESS POWER NEEDED TO MANEUVER AROUND.

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WITH SHARE PLATFORM SYSTEM, TURNTABLE RATE IS MUCH HIGHER THAN PERSONAL USAGE VEHICLES. WHICH IS MUCH MORE EFFICIENT AT UNIT

BUILT USAGE , COMPARE IN RATIO OF LOW WORKING RATE SUSTAINABILITY IS HIGHER BECAUSE LESS UNIT IS NEEDED FOR CITIZENS TO

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