GelenK is based on a complex and dense future city. This design will display merit in a region where there are a number of cars and narrow intersections regardless of a planned city or not. It will solve a problem that existing trucks couldn’t comprehend downtown and the outside at one time. Existing large trucks could not perform their function well in a complex city and small trucks transporting in the city were not proper for long-distance driving. However, this design can satisfy both functions. The form of truck of which width got narrowed down and height became high in response to future city and the function of compartment that can follow autonomously after being separated when necessary can pass through the corner of narrow city and be mixed with other complex vehicles.
Takbeom Heogh pursued a transformable design according to the people’s demand. He thought a fluid design that could move according to a passenger’s demand, not staying in one pattern. It is the same context to transform into a form having wider space during autonomous traveling or rest or show various application possibility as one vehicle by introducing docking system. Heogh thought what people could have was through autonomous traveling using GPS technology and wireless communication technology and found the answer in space and time. He made a design to utilize it as best as possible. He changed the space of two passengers into one of one passenger while narrowing down the width of truck itself and raising the height. Instead, he met both space for efficient work and space for enough rest.
According to Takbeom Heogh, the solution to this transportation and logistics quandary is the development of his GelenK project, a completely novel, modular, autonomous truck. In his vision, Heogh has conceived of a single-seat semi that gives its pilot the ability to monitor road conditions and plot optimal routes. Beyond those relatively commonplace features, the aerodynamic GelenK can do something a bit more futuristic, it can disassemble its long trailer into three separate components, effectively reducing the size of the vehicle. Once separated, the three trailer sections switch into an autonomous drive mode and follow the pilot controlled cab as it navigates through the city. The GelenK’s drone sections could then branch from their mother ship and make their deliveries unsupervised. If that were the case, once fully unloaded, the drones could rendezvous with their driver on the outskirts of town and ready themselves for further deliveries.
While it is unlikely the GelenK will see big city streets anytime soon, the audacity of Heogh’s idea could be a startlingly accurate vision of the future of transportation and logistics. As more and more of the world’s population continues to flock to cities, automated logistics will become increasingly more important for urban areas teeming with life, activity and needs.
