Featured: Hypercar concept by our new member Simon Rapisarda!

Martijn van de Wiel
May 30, 2024

It's probably any car designer's dream to get to design a new hypercar with an actual car manufacturer and have a full size prototype built! Have a look at this awesome graduation project by our fresh member Simon Rapisarda. He was part of the student team that worked on this concept. I would love to see the sketches for this project, so if you are reading this Simon, it would be great if you could share some of the exploratory sketches that you did!

Watch the video below to see the whole project.

Simon Rapisarda
May 30, 2024

Thanks Martijn! It was a fantastic group effort which we are all super proud of. I was lucky enough to do some press sketches for this one :)

Martijn van de Wiel
May 30, 2024

Same here! I get most excited about sketches that reveal a train of thought. Sketches that were instrumental in the process and lead up to a breakthrough – a moment of discovery, when you see something in your sketch that you didn't see before. In my case these sketches are often very rough and unpolished, but like you said, already capture the essence of your final design.

Philip van Veelen
May 30, 2024

What a beautiful project! I saw the car before but I didn't know it was done by students, very inspiring. I like how it appears simple at first glance, but the surfaces are very complex, and the design looks very refreshing. One of those cars you could sit in front of, staring at it for days. Really cool!

Nicolae-Andrei Miuta
May 31, 2024

Agreed, great harmony between design and engineering, I am always fascinated to see such large scale multidisciplinary automotive projects take shape!