Design process that was followed in this project:
• Research
• Introduction
• Overview of Design Process
• Existing Electric Motorcycles
- Quantya
- Zero Motorcycles
- Brammo motorcycles
• Emerging Electric Technology
- Aluminium celmet
- Chemical nanotube solar energy storage
- Nanowire Batteries
- Liquid Batteries
- Inferences
• Study of Motorcycle Chassis Design
- Pressed frame chassis
- Single cradle frame
- Norton Featherbed frame
- Half duplex cradle frame
- Full duplex cradle frame
- Spine frame
- Trellis frame
• Study of Motorcycle Suspension Design
- Telescopic forks
- Trailing link suspension
- Teading link suspension
- Girder fork suspension
- Telelever suspension
- Duolever suspension
- Coaxial steering suspension
- Hub Centric steering
• User Study
- Need analysis
- User interviews
- Product semantic study
- Classification: Designers
- Classification: Non-designers
- Inferences from user study
• Design Brief
• Explorations and Concept Design
- Packaging Exploration
- Final Packaging Design
. Design 1
. Design 2
• Initial Exploration
- Volume explorations
- Initial form ideation
• Forms Derived from Nature
- Snake: concept 1
- Concept detailing
- Snake: concept 2
- Dragonfly concept
- Thinbike Concept
- Concept evaluation chart
• Model Making
- Tape drawing
- Ergonomic considerations
- Armature design
- Clay modelling
- Design Intent
- Final model
• Bibliography
Case Study Download:
• IRAJA - Aesthetic Exploration for a Green Urban Motorcycle - Pdf
