“We imagined the control panel in the cockpit to be like an airplane wing with turbines,” Ivo van Hulten, interior designer of the new Audi A1 said about the design behind the interior.
“Naturally, we’re building a car and not an airplane, but the first sketches of the air vents were created with this idea in our heads. And even at this early stage we were thinking about colors and materials. Our goal was to allow A1 drivers to be able to design the air vents according to their personal taste.”
The A1 interior features as many customizable elements as possible, with the air vents in the control panel receiving a new design which allow them to constantly be in the driver’s field of vision (not sure what purpose does this serve...).
The roof arch of the A1 will be available for order in various colors, while the aforementioned Wasabi Green will be customizable with a wide range of colors and materials.
“We reconstructed the control panel from clay and then fitted an aluminum component in the shape of the air vent into the clay. By repositioning it and modifying the size, we were able to specify the precise position,” van Hulten added. “The process is highly complex, and the A1 includes many such details. We were only satisfied when everything was perfectly harmonized.”
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