Description
Half a millimetre. That is the tolerance to which the large-scale 3D-printed parts of #PeugeotPolygonConcept were made — and seeing 3D printing at this scale is not common in automotive design.
In this episode, Sébastien Criquet (Exterior Advanced Design Lead), Manuel Jimenez Garcia (Co-Founder and CEO at Nagami) and Matthias Hossann (Head of Peugeot Design) tell the story behind the ambition to create large-scale 3D-printed parts — including the seats and wheel covers.
A new workflow was developed specifically for this project, using recycled PTD sourced from pharmaceutical industry waste. The goal was not functionality alone — every part also needed to be aesthetically distinctive, as you would expect from a brand with Peugeot's design heritage. The result: unique components with a half-millimetre tolerance that are as interesting to look at as they are to engineer.
What this project proved is bigger than the parts themselves. It showed that collaborating with industries far removed from automotive — bringing in entirely different expertise and perspectives — opens the door to new formal typologies, new design languages, and genuinely new ways of thinking about what a car can be. That belief in hybridisation between industries is, for the team, the clearest path to the mobility of tomorrow.
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