LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept

LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
LA Design Challenge (2010): Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept
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The Mercedes-Benz Biome is a futuristic ultralight concept that uses advanced bio-technologies to increase eco-efficiency. It was created by Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Center California for the 2010 LA Design Challenge.
"Mercedes-Benz" предполагает, что в будущем автомобили концерна будут частью экосистемы, как "листья на деревьях". Концепт "Biome" способен безболезненно для природы использовать ее ресурсы, при этом возобновляя и улучшая экологию.

Автомобиль будет собирать солнечную энергию и накапливать ее с помощью химических связей в форме жидкости, которая, по-задумке ученных "Mercedes-Benz" будет называться "BioNectar4534". При движении концепт будет вырабатывать чистый кислород.

Также в "Mercedes" подумали и об озеленении планеты. Компания предлагает модифицировать деревья таким образом, чтобы избытки солнечной энергии модифицировались ими в "BioNectar4534".

Кузов концепта состоит из специального биоволокна называемого "Biofibre". Он гораздо легче металла, но прочнее стали. Такие автомобили будут производится при помощи генной инженерии.

После истечения срока эксплуатации "Biome" будут перерабатываться в удобрения или строительные материалы.


Mercedes-Benz Biome

Symbiosis: Light Technologies from Nature

The Biome:
The Mercedes-Benz Biome is an ultralight vehicle that utilizes technologies from nature to achieve unparalleled efficiency and seamless integration into the ecosystem.

Mercedes-Benz Symbiosis:
Mercedes-Benz Symbiosis is a system in which the vehicle becomes part of the ecosystem like the leaves of a tree. Symbiosis vehicles collect energy from the sun and store it in chemical bonds, in the form of a fluid called BioNectar4534. Mercedes has also developed technology to retrofit trees with receptors which can harvest their excess solar energy into BN4534. This creates an incentive to plant more trees and collect more energy, while also helping the ecosystem. The vehicle can be composted after its lifespan is complete or used as building material.

Partnership With Nature:
The Symbiosis vehicle forms a seamless part of the ecosystem through green technologies. Most of the energy used to power the vehicles comes from the sun. It is stored in a lightweight grown material called BioFibre. It is much lighter than metal or synthetic composites, but stronger than steel when mature. It is grown in the Mercedes-Benz Nursery through proprietary DNA. The customer's specific desires are genetically engineered into the Star and the vehicle grows when this combines with the Seed capsule.

Mercedes-Benz Nursery:
All Mercedes-Benz Symbiosis vehicles are grown in an ecologically sustainable nursery, using primarily organic materials.

Growth from Two Seeds:
The interior of the Biome grows from Mercedes-Benz DNA in the front star, when it fuses with the seed. The exterior grows from the rear star, creating the shape. The wheels are grown separately from four unique seeds.

Technologies from Nature:
Mercedes Benz Symbiosis vehicles release pure oxygen into the environment, helping urban areas to meet air quality standards.
Design Team
Hubert Lee
Christopher Rhoades
Nicolas Garfias
Alan Barrington
Daniel Kim
Benjamin Messmer
Jack Luttig


Mercedes-Benz BIOME: an Ultralight Vehicle at One with Nature

At this year's Los Angeles Design Challenge, the designers from the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Carlsbad, California, surprised everyone with a revolutionary vision. Taking their inspiration from nature, they designed a vehicle which is fully integrated into the ecosystem, from the moment of its creation right through to the end of its service life. The Mercedes-Benz BIOME grows in a completely organic environment from seeds sown in a nursery. Out on the road the car emits pure oxygen, and at the end of its lifespan it can be simply composted or used as building material.

"As the inventor of the motor car, we wanted to illustrate the vision of the perfect vehicle of the future, which is created and functions in complete symbiosis with nature. The Mercedes-Benz BIOME is a natural technology hybrid, and forms part of our earth's ecosystem. It grows and thrives like the leaves on a tree" according to Hubert Lee, Head of the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Carlsbad. This year the competition had called for the creation of a vision of a safe and comfortable 2+2 compact car featuring good handling and a first-class design, and weighing only 1,000 lbs (around 454 kg/kerb weight).

Mercedes-Benz symbiosis – a partnership with nature
The Mercedes-Benz BIOME symbiosis vehicle is made from an ultralight material called BioFibre and tips the scales at just 875.5 lbs (around 394 kg). This material is significantly lighter than metal or plastic, yet more robust than steel. BioFibre is grown from proprietary DNA in the Mercedes-Benz nursery, where it collects energy from the sun and stores it in a liquid chemical bond called BioNectar4534. As part of this process, the vehicle is created from two seeds: The interior of the BIOME grows from the DNA in the Mercedes star on the front of the vehicle, while the exterior grows from the star on the rear. To accommodate specific customer requirements, the Mercedes star is genetically engineered in each case, and the vehicle "grows" when the genetic code is combined with the seed capsule. The wheels are grown from four separate seeds.

The Mercedes-Benz BIOME is powered by BioNectar4534, which is stored in the BioFibre material of the chassis, interior, and wheels. In addition, Mercedes-Benz has developed a technology to equip trees with special receptors which can collect the excess solar energy and turn it into BioNectar4534. This creates a direct link with nature's energy sources and acts as an incentive to cover mobility energy requirements through more trees and at the same time maintain natural resources. Like plants, the Mercedes-Benz symbiosis vehicle also produces oxygen, thereby contributing to improving air quality. At the end of its service life, the Mercedes-Benz BIOME can be fully composted or used as building material. Thanks to the exclusive use of green technologies, the BIOME vehicle thus blends seamlessly into the ecosystem.
По материалам: Денис КАЦИЛО - biz.liga.net; LA Design Challenge
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