Industry equipment / Style Design / Product Development
M8 / m16
The project was born from a collaboration between Trepunti Design Studio and Hyle Project as a full redesign of a production sport motorcycle. Starting from an existing platform, the work focused on completely redefining the outer surfaces through a process that integrates design, engineering, and additive manufacturing. The entire vehicle was digitized through 3D scanning of the original motorcycle, building a parametric base on which to develop the new bodywork and ensure fitment accuracy and geometric consistency with the existing mechanical constraints. The goal was to fully redefine the visual identity of the vehicle without it remaining a purely formal exercise: every surface decision had to translate into a real component — manufacturable and installable.
MAGS
The formal language leans toward a faceted, sharp-edged aesthetic, where angular volumes and surface breaks build an immediately recognizable silhouette. The chromatic contrast between the light panels of the front fairing and the dark surfaces of the side panels, tail section, and rider interface elements — seat, dashboard, fuel tank opening — establishes a precise visual hierarchy that separates the bodywork from the riding zone. The circular front headlight unit and the Y-shaped light signature at the rear complete and reinforce this identity across the entire profile of the vehicle. The process was developed in a fully integrated way, from surface design through to production and final assembly. The body panels were engineered specifically for 3D printing, leveraging the collaboration with Hyle Project to achieve structurally functional components manufacturable without traditional tooling. The lighting system was redesigned from scratch, with new optical units conceived, integrated, and wired within the new vehicle layout. Every component was developed considering not only form but also thermal, mechanical, and installation constraints, through to the assembly and road testing of the fully functional prototype.
The formal language leans toward a faceted, sharp-edged aesthetic, where angular volumes and surface breaks build an immediately recognizable silhouette. The chromatic contrast between the light panels of the front fairing and the dark surfaces of the side panels, tail section, and rider interface elements — seat, dashboard, fuel tank opening — establishes a precise visual hierarchy that separates the bodywork from the riding zone. The circular front headlight unit and the Y-shaped light signature at the rear complete and reinforce this identity across the entire profile of the vehicle. The process was developed in a fully integrated way, from surface design through to production and final assembly. The body panels were engineered specifically for 3D printing, leveraging the collaboration with Hyle Project to achieve structurally functional components manufacturable without traditional tooling. The lighting system was redesigned from scratch, with new optical units conceived, integrated, and wired within the new vehicle layout. Every component was developed considering not only form but also thermal, mechanical, and installation constraints, through to the assembly and road testing of the fully functional prototype.
