14 DAY TRIAL // Cars have been growing more and more streamlined with every decade, and they will only change over time as our human minds grow bored with current shape conventions. The Maasaica is an attempt to portray what will be normal in a few decades.
What you see in the pictures above and below are 3D printed prototype, scaled-down models of the vehicle that BMW may or may not bring to the market in thirty years or so.
According to Swedish designer Erik Melldahl, the Maasaica is meant to be a sustainable, locally-produced car that doesn't stick to the methods and ideas of the conservative automotive industry.
The car is supposed to be constructed in the Serengeti by means of 3D printing technology and from degradable 3D materials. The goal is to allow the car to decompose, dissolve in the environment after being scrapped.
It does beg the question of how the vehicle is expected to survive the years, if it is supposed to break down from natural causes. Perhaps some special paint or metallic coating?
Anyway, the main body of the car is to be made of mycelium mushrooms mixed with grass, of all things. They would be grown on a 3D printable skeleton, all in the space of a few days (including the 3D printing itself). The combination has been used in furniture before.
