DIPLOMA THESIS

The Škoda eCon concept is a sculptural vision of an electric icon in the near future. Škoda eCon concept is the merger of minimalism, national symbols, Czech heritage, and Škoda design. In my diploma thesis, I was trying to find the eco-friendly future of autonomous cars and design it according to my vision of how autonomous cars could look in approximately 50 years. If we look at the current situation of transport in large cities, we will see how congested and crowded by many cars the cities are. Taxis are losing their function, the capacity of public transportation is inadequate and there are too many cars everywhere. We are used to owning not one, but several cars; however, their function is disappearing. We own Coupé for summer trips, SUVs for trips to the mountains, MPVs for transporting children to schools. We live at the time of billion cars. The main target I focused on in my thesis was the way of transportation itself. The kind of transport we know today is outdated and will have to change. Change our mindset and attitude toward transportation itself. We have plenty of car companies these days. All these car companies focus on quantity, not quality. My diploma thesis is basically a performance. My goal was to design an automotive sculpture that would raise the questions and prompt the people to think. To think about the transport situation. Is it correct how many cars are being produced today and how many of them are scrapped every day? The first step in the process was to realize and accept the three basic rules of old design and architecture masters. As FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION (Louis Sullivan), LESS IS MORE (Dieter Rams) and ORNAMENT IS A CRIME (Adolf Loos).