Commenting on: BMW Gina - a re-interpretation of familiar functionality and structure

BMW's new GINA concept car offers incredibly complex design by incorporating a lightweight, durable, flexible, cloth skin pulled taut around a frame of aluminum and carbon fiber wires. Electro-hydraulic controls can actually move and change shape of the car beneath the fabric skin to adjust for current conditions such as speed and weather. The most striking example are the headlights. When the headlights are not active, they are smoothly hidden under the fabric skin. When the driver turns on the lights, the fabric "blinks" opens and reveals the BMW head-lights. Even the interior is skinned with flexible, Neoprene, only…