>Torpe says these elements make the train highly representative of the country. He estimates the studio spent more than 15,000 hours on the design. “We went all the way into these details to create the Danish train,”
I duuno mate, maybe my monitor calibration is way off but to me, the renderings make it look pretty dull and depressing inside considering all the effort he gloats about and what Danish weather is usually like. Like some cheap IKEA furniture using Quake's color pallete. Austrian and Swiss trains look much nicer and cheerfull than that on the inside.
Yeah looking at the photo and reading the 15k hours in design makes me a little suspicious that the designer wasn’t working very effectively.
The final design looks not better than other high doors trains in Europe. Designer should have just copied one of the existing designs and saves themselves 14999 hours.
Many of the renderings are supposed to show how it’ll look when it’s dark outside the train, since the whole winter, that’s what it’ll be when people are taking the train from/to work.
Denmark only has 8-ish hours of daylight in the winter, mostly co-located with the working hours, so it makes a lot of sense to focus on how the experience will be then. And they’re trying to go for “warm and cozy”. Looks good to me at least.
When it’s bright outside the inside lighting goes brighter and cooler.
No first class. That’s great, especially since nowadays it just means an extra 8cm legroom, different color seats and a bit more quiet due to low occupancy. Instead I imagine the trains and schedule are designed to comfortably serve actual demand. Hope this trend continues around the world.
I’m not sure in general, but I had a similar thought ~5 years ago when the new London Underground tube stock design was unveiled in the form of concept art. A few months ago they did their first press session with the actual trains, and to a layman’s eye, it’s basically exactly what was in the concept art. I’m sure there are differences for commercialisation and operational details, but I can’t notice them.
Concept cars are about the concept and not intended to become a real car for general availability. Whereas projects like this are typically fairly directly tied to an actual project to replace the rolling stock or a contract with a manufacturer. They may still be a little aspirational and need the details working out, but I think they tend to be much closer to reality.
The overall thing? Not sure. But the seats are definitely real and aren’t just 3d-rendered, as one of the images in the article is an actual photo of those chairs in one of their facilities (i.e., outside of a train).
I duuno mate, maybe my monitor calibration is way off but to me, the renderings make it look pretty dull and depressing inside considering all the effort he gloats about and what Danish weather is usually like. Like some cheap IKEA furniture using Quake's color pallete. Austrian and Swiss trains look much nicer and cheerfull than that on the inside.