Henning Knoepfle

Studio projects

Studio
Technicon Design, Shanghai and Frankfurt
Years
2010 to 2017
My role
General Manager and Design Director; later Director, Studio Services
Reading this page
Work by my teams for clients. Each entry states our scope

Baojun 360

SAIC-GM-Wuling. Advanced design that led to the production MPV, launched in 2018. Shanghai team.

Baojun 360 design rendering
Baojun 360 side view
Baojun 360: rendering and the car.

Chery Tiggo 3 interior

Chery. Styling, CAS, clay and A-class surfaces for the interior, launched in 2014. Shanghai team.

Chery Tiggo 3 interior rendering
Tiggo 3 interior clay model
Tiggo 3 interior, final design
Tiggo 3 interior: rendering, clay model and final design.

Ssangyong Korando

Ssangyong. Exterior and interior production concepts. The car was shown in Geneva in 2019. Frankfurt team.

Korando exterior sketch
Ssangyong Korando, rear three-quarter view
Korando side view rendering
Korando: an exterior sketch, the car and a side view rendering.

Foton Grandeur

Foton. Exterior and interior, through the model to the final product. Shanghai team.

Foton Grandeur exterior
Foton Grandeur interior
Foton Grandeur: exterior and interior.

Qoros 5

Qoros. A-class surfacing. Shanghai team.

Qoros 5 side view
Qoros 5.

Lucy vision car

Technicon's own show car for the IM Conference in 2013. Concept, exterior, interior and 3D data. Shanghai team.

Lucy vision car sketch
Lucy vision car rendering
Lucy vision car interior
Lucy: sketch, exterior and interior.

Audi A8 L rear cabin, with Tongji University, 2012 to 2013

A rear-cabin study for Audi that my Shanghai team ran together with Tongji University students: cocoon seating, reclining rear seats, individual audio and rear-cabin interfaces. The final theme was built as a full-size seating buck.

Audi A8 L rear cabin concept, rendering from above
Audi A8 L rear cabin concept, seating buck
Final rendering, and the seating buck.

Part of a larger program

Public cars where our scope was one part of the work.

  • Zinoro show car. BMW Brilliance. CAS modeling and A-class surfacing.
  • BMW compact sedan, Guangzhou show. BMW. Surface and A-class modeling.
  • BMW aluminum wheel. BMW. Styling and CAS.
  • Koenigsegg. Visualization and animation.
BMW compact sedan concept
BMW wheel design on the car
BMW compact sedan concept and the wheel program.

Without images

  • Changan Ford. Three show cars. Exterior and interior, styling to A-class.
  • Changan. HMI cluster concepts.
  • Embraer. Private jet interior concept and renderings.
  • Dalian. Train interior development.
  • MAN. Truck interior concept. See Commercial vehicles.
  • Honda. Autonomous vision concept.