Alexander Neumeister: Master of the Shinkansen Nozomi 500
Munich January 10, 2012

The Nozomi 500 is a strange exception of technological development. An evolution in a direction that had no ancestors and no successors. It looks like an exeptional leap forward for a highspeed bullet-train concept that has set a futuristic landmark, that has not yet been surpassed. In the contrary: The development of high speed trains in the 21 century seems to move rather backwards in comparison to this futuristic developments and radical achievements.

The second new aspect in Japanese highspeed train design: The shape (exterior and interior) has been developed and consulted by German designer Alexander Neumeister from Munich.

In the following video of January 10, 2012 Alexander Neumeister speaks in Munich about the positive and optimistic circumstances that led to this exceptional shape of a high speed train. About its specific aerodynamics, about the cooperation with the Japanese ingeneers and railway company and the overall positive circumstances of its genesis.

Fact sheet Nozomi 500

Operator
West Japan Railway Company
JR West

Producer
Hitachi Ltd., Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company, Kinki Sharyo, Nippon Sharyo

Exterior and interior design
Alexander Neumeister, Munich/Germany

Developed since 1995

In service since 22.03.1997 until 28 February 2010
(Remodeled now for local services to Kodama since 2008)

Maximum High Speed 320 km/h/199 mph

Trainspotting on Youtube

Neumeister und Partner

Xmas 2011

Happy New Year 2012

View in the bamboo garden and to the black forest

Conference table

Post production

Library, chairs by Gaetano Pesce, wooden lamp by Frank O. Gehry, portrait by Leonardo da Vinci

Working on the Rothaus media installation

Working on the Rothaus media installation

Working on the Rothaus media installation – studio cat Orko (right) is watching you…

… and using the touch screen

Title page of the Japanese journal for Art and Architecture “SD space design” with studio bangert projects
Photo: Klaus Frahm

Inside view of the wooden cubes:
The height of the main space is 6 m, the left cube 3.60 m, the right cube 4.10 m.

ABITARE/Italy described the wooden building on stilts as “Furniture in the landscape”.
Photo: Santi Caleca

Spread of the English book “The New Wood Architecture”
Interior view of the separate guest tower and the main studio

Interior views shown in ABITARE/Italy

INTERNI/Italy – interview with publisher Albrecht Bangert
“At that time we have published design books as the International Design Yearbook.”

Details of the wooden construction: all connections of the edges with aluminum swords and aluminum rods

Page view in the Spanish book “Casas Sorprendentes”
Photos: Klaus Frahm

ATRIUM/Switzerland showed the guest room in the separate cubic tower building.

Wooden cubes and wooden decks shown from the entrance side of the studio in “Casas Sorprendentes”, Spain

The courtyard of the brewery inn with a monumental outdoor gallery of the inn’s history and todays activities.
client: Rothaus, State Brewery of Baden
idea and realisation of mega prints: bangert projects

The two brewhouses along with their copper vats are the pride and joy of the brewery.
The visitor can have also a one by one scale view into the technology under the copper vats.

Signboards in glass describe in full detail the brewing processes.

En route to the fermentation tanks, yeast is added to the cooled wort in the yeast store.
The yeast is the fourth ingredient, the “beer’s spirit”, and causes the beer to ferment.
It has the effect of turning the liquid malt sugar in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
The quality of the yeast has a great influence on the taste of the end product – the beer.

The 14 meter high fermentation tanks are shown in full scale.

Fermentation tanks

Underneath the storage tanks:
Once the main fermentation process is complete, the beer is stored and matured for four weeks at a temperature of down to -2°C.
It is here that our quality beer takes on its distinctive mellow and well-rounded flavor and the unique lightness of flavor.

The sections of the storage tanks merge with the existing architecture.

Graphics and winter-landscape create a nearly surreal contrast.

Filtering

Kegging and six-pack robot

The Rothaus-trucks in full size: The “Zaepfle”-trucks are the kings of the black forest roads.

Luigi Colani is making up a model in the morning sun in front of his studio.

On the road with the Colani silo truck towards the Gotthard 2009

Colani “Concorde de la route” 1977

Making of a new streamline truck in the Karlsruhe/Neureuth workshop 2002

The Colani work list has been published on the occasion of the exhibition “Colani back in Japan” at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2006
Curator: Albrecht Bangert, Catalogue: bangert verlag, Organizer: Miki Frenkler

http://www.bangertinternational.de/colani/colani_kyoto_german.pdf

“My robots come from a fairy-tale world. At a time when robots are wiping out scores of jobs in Japan we should create a better mood for robots,
and the easiest way to do that in Japan is to appeal to the kids.” Colani

1985 The small Robot Hero and the Fuyo Robot Theater

The Fuyo Robots today

1983 Lunar Head

1983 Study of a Fuyo Robot

1983 Study of Fuyo Robots

1983 Study of a Fuyo Robot and a motorcycle front looking like a human robot

1984 Fuyo Women

1984 Studies of dresses for Fuyo Women

2005 Study for a baby robot

Visiting Colani in his studio in Neureuth, Southern Germany, where he worked from 2002 to 2006.
Photos: Rüdiger Buhl, Germany