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M346 Homage Super Car by Robson Marques de Pontes Wins the Golden A' Design Award in Car and Land Based Motor Vehicles Design
Robson Marques de Pontes acknowledged for car and land based motor vehicles design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that M346 Homage Super Car by Robson Marques de Pontes has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Car and Land Based Motor Vehicles Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About M346 Homage Super Car
M346 Homage is a two-seater sports car designed for road and track use. The body is made of carbon fiber composites and is supported by a tubular frame of high strength aerospace aluminum alloy. The name and the formal language come from the Aermacchi M-346 aircraft, whose lines are translated into fluid automotive surfaces. Several details carry functions such as active aerodynamics and downforce, which assist cornering and braking. Two versions are planned, one with a V8 engine and one with an electric powertrain.
About Robson Marques de Pontes
Robson Marques de Pontes is a thirty eight years old Product Designer who has been born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and who has specialized in 3D design modeling for the transportation industry. During the last 15 years, Robson Pontes has had the opportunity to help a variety of OEM makers around the world to develop their products which, among others, includes large-scale-family hatches to one-of-a-kind hyper cars.
Award Record
With this recognition, Robson Marques de Pontes is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Car and Land Based Motor Vehicles Design Award
The A' Car Design Award is an international car design competition recognizing good car designs by leading car designers and automotive brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to car designers, automobile designers, industrial designers and motor vehicle companies from all countries. Entries typically include sedans, hatchbacks, suvs, convertibles, coupes and minivans. Awarded car designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/car
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/139368
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139368
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139368
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/273096
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/3MUCiC2
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- M346 Homage Super Car
- Function
- Super Car
- Category
- Car and Land Based Motor Vehicles Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Automotive
- Colors
- Silver, Dark Gray, Light Slate Gray, Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Robson Marques de Pontes
- Country
- Germany
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #139368
Credits
- Team
- Robson Marques de Pontes - Lead Designer and Luciano Maffini - Collaborative Designer
- Image Credits
- Computer Generated Image and collage by Robson Marques de Pontes, March 2022.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The M346 Homage is an all carbon fiber bespoke sports car body project developed to dress a light-weight, aerospace inspired, all electric or mid-engine multipurpose automotive platform. The project reanalyzes conventions by blending the aerospace world with that of the automotive and, from the first sketch to virtual reality reviews, CFD simulations, generative design and the scrutiny until the last detail, everything in the project has been designed in an integrated and bold design taste.
- Inspiration
- In a balanced blend of elegancy and sharpness, lightness and rigidity, aerodynamics and downforce, form and function, the M346 Homage takes its name from its counterpart, the Aermacchi M346, an aircraft first created as a pilot trainer, but then quickly surpassing all expectative to become a fully armed fighter aircraft and finally having the honor of equipping the Tricolor Arrows. To keep up with this big responsibility, the project blends together emotional and functional design with a bespoke platform that will deliver the M-346 enough performance to literally take off.
- Research
- During the research phase of the project a deep analysis of both the formal design language as well as the functional elements of the Aermacchi M-346 fighter aircraft were carried out. All data collected in the form of visual and text input was then experimented in an automotive manner until achieving a perfect blending together with more traditional car design features and functions. As a result, the M346 Homage resembles the aircraft counterpart in its looks while reverse-engineering its aerodynamic solutions and preserving all the sharpness and sexiness of a sports car of such a nature.
- Challenge
- Going end-to-end and completing the whole design research, creating a design story theme, sketching ideas, computer aided styling modeling and computer generative imagery rendering in only two months was a huge achievement, but accomplishing this on the top of a ready-to-build chassis platform with all the hard points and engineering restraints, while transforming and adapting the more brutal and technical formal styling language of an fighter aircraft into that of a fluid and elegant super car and enhancing active and passive aerodynamics with unique design solutions, was the biggest challenge in the design process of the M346 Homage.
- Realization and Technology
- To be offered either with a V8 internal combustion engine or with an electric powertrain, from the beginning, the M346 Homage has been designed using either pen on paper traditional sketching skills to computer aided styling, augmented reality, other computer simulations and industry cutting edge materials and technologies available to achieve the final platform and body work that, inspired by the aerospace world, use light materials such as high strength aerospace aluminum alloy and carbon fiber composites in a perfect balance between craftsmanship and high tech solutions.
- Operation and Interaction
- The M346 Homage is intended as a high performance road and track sports vehicle that takes its formal design language and concept at the lines and technical solutions found in the Aermacchi M-346 counterpart. With an aerospace aluminum tubular frame which also receives bespoke light-weight components as a backbone, the M346 Homage transforms this fighter aircraft language input into automotive fluid lines that elegantly morph into clever details that carry functions such as vehicular active aerodynamics and downforce for improvement in cornering and breaking assistance.
- Project Duration and Location
- The exterior design of the M346 Homage project was initiated in January of 2022 in Germany and Italy and completed, only 3 months later, in March of the same year.
- Specifications
- With more than 700 hp (in its internal combustion engine configuration) pulling a bumper to bumper total length of 4778 mm and a wheelbase of 1.193 mm, the mid-engine, two-seater M346 Homage stands at 1.193 mm from the ground and has a total width (discounting side mirrors) of 2.066 mm.
- Keywords
- automotive design, car design, sports car, supercar, automotive project, automotive engineering, fighter aircraft, Aermacchi M346, aerodynamics, generative design
