From “unrealistic science fiction” to getting awards
Starting as a graduation project in January 2008, KNARR™ project nearly stopped before it started. Our professors at Aarhus Architecture School thought it was “unrealistic” and “science-fiction like”. After graduating with honours, we received great praise from international media and the KNARR™ project was exhibited in Japan, presented at TEDx, awarded with both the Danish Design Center’s Special Price and the international Core77 Design “Speculative Concept” award – on top of getting us employed at the world’s leader in wind energy Vestas.
Challenge
Our goal has been to make a freight solution, which will reduce the energy consumption of today’s wind turbine freight. Furthermore we wanted to make the logistics around the wind turbine freight more simple and efficient.
We have made a solution for an airship, which will be capable of transporting the wind turbine parts from manufacture to installation site.
Deliverables
In order to address all of the aspects of the concept, we worked with different visualization methods. We made storyboards, posters, 3D renderings and prints, and animations.