{"id":15268,"date":"2020-11-28T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/marcello-gandini-designer-del-futuro-capitolo-4\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:14:46","slug":"marcello-gandini-the-designer-of-the-future-chapter-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/marcello-gandini-the-designer-of-the-future-chapter-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcello Gandini: The designer of the future \u2013 Chapter 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Let\u2019s try to summarise your key suggestions, the secrets to make a prototype:<\/p>\n

– Being in a small group of people<\/strong><\/p>\n

– It\u2019s essential. Because they\u2019re things which you make mainly based on sensations, rather than through large meetings. The car isn\u2019t something artistic, but it\u2019s an activity of the mind anyway\u2026 even of the child\u2019s unconscious mind. When I was little, I dreamed about cars and there\u2019s something which accompanied me through the years. Personally speaking, I never got scared when doing something new or different, a white sheet never intimidated me, I actually always loved a white sheet. I could start completely from zero, mechanics, bodywork, construction method. The white sheet is stimulating. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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– Let\u2019s go back to the individual work<\/strong><\/p>\n

– I had a certain success with a small project, relating to the reduction of the surface in plants for the construction of cars. The purpose of the study, was to reduce the number of workers, of working hours, of the cost of plants, both in terms of construction and of management: in brief, it means reducing size.<\/em><\/p>\n

I dealt with the topic of the study inappropriately\u2026 I mean, I did everything on my own, a whole car, engine included. It was very challenging and, so, I had to work without too much self-criticism, otherwise I wouldn\u2019t have been able to do anything. <\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15179″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]– Reducing the size also means reducing the incidence of pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n

– To do all of this you mainly need to change car. In certain plants you try to improve product and reduce costs through robots and you do obtain something. My view was more drastic. The ambition of my project was to reduce the size of plants a lot. In order to build a car, you need to: buy a plot of land, build a plant, you need to equip the plant with all of the equipment\u2026 then there are management costs\u2026 the sum of all expenses needs to be divided by the number of the cars manufactured inside the plant. If the plant is halved, expenses are immediately halved. I\u2019ve shown this to several car manufacturers, Fiat included, back then there was engineer Ghidella. When I signed with Renault, Fiat\u2019s engineer s engineer phoned me the following day because he was interested. <\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15181″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]– Working on your own or with few people, because too many heads may be a cause for confusion? <\/strong><\/p>\n

– At the time of the Carabo, I had the ambition to create myself an office inside Bertone\u2019s. I had two young minds, as collaborators, who had never worked before. A certain Boscairol, very likeable and very good, he could draw quite well, he was a smart man who knew how to evaluate the situation. I had excellent relationships with my collaborators, I always did what I wanted. I always asked for the opinion of others, because it\u2019s important. When we made the Stratos \u2013 we had just presented the Countach in Geneva \u2013 we didn\u2019t receive any indications from Lancia, so I went ahead following my own ideas. Together with the two collaborators, we started to make a real size prototype\u2026 one of the two had also made the drawings and they were very much based on what I had done with the Countach. In this case, the topic was completely different, but I let him go ahead with it because if you continue to say no, you aren\u2019t stimulating. When the model was drafted, it wasn\u2019t exactly what I would have wanted, but I\u2019m certain that they realised about it too. <\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15183″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]– We had the task to present the car at the Turin exhibition, in August everybody went away on holiday while myself and three shapers, the best I had, stayed. Once in a while, I went for a ride on the Guzzi\u2026 in any case, in three weeks, I made the Stratos without drawings, they never existed. I used to trace the parts which were to be cut directly out of plywood. When they got back from the holidays, everybody from Lancia came to see the car, which only had a coat of Ducotone and some carboard instead of windows\u2026 clearly, it wasn\u2019t the best and they put a long face on. Personally speaking, I wasn\u2019t concerned because I was very well aware of what the final result would have been. When we presented the prototype\u2026 the long faces became smiles. The rally car didn\u2019t need to be beautiful, but it won, the beauty would have remained at least! <\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15187″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]– Doing what we like and doing it fast and without doubts<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Of course, that\u2019s very important. You need to overcome any doubts, even if you do something which isn\u2019t exactly what you would have wanted. For example: for the Marzal, I needed to use an engine from the Lamborghini Miura turned the wrong way round and cut in half. My project envisioned that the sense of rotation would have been inverted, without knowing beforehand if anybody would have done it. We made the car and then Lamborghini, the ever so good and polite engineers Stanzani and Dallara, were happy to do it. I mean, I started to draw something let\u2019s say in October, then we needed to make the model, the construction, the whole prototype which was complicated, to get to Geneva in early March. No afterthoughts were possible and, all in all, it was lucky because, had I thought about it a bit too long, I wouldn\u2019t have done it or I wouldn\u2019t have done it the same\u2026 maybe it would have been better or, maybe, worse.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Without listening to others and without being influenced<\/strong><\/p>\n

– I had no ideas to begin with. I have a mentality; I have a baggage which I gathered from birth. I have feelings and, sometimes, you need to guess the utopistic channel.<\/em><\/p>\n

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