BREAKTHROUGH DESIGN INNOVATION

The BMW GINA Light Visionary Model is an design study that shows BMW designers' innovative design thinking. Featuring an outer skin made entirely out of textile fabric that's pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires, the car's shape can change, controlled by electro-hydraulic devices. For instance, the headlights of the concept can be exposed or hidden by the car's skin just like blinking eyes, and the hood opens from the center as the fabric parts to expose the engine. This idea extends to the interior, where BMW designers have made visible only those instruments that are required at a certain time, while the rest of the time the same fabric interior "blinks" them out of view.