00:00My name is Auraito, I am a designer.
00:07What interests me in this job is the transversality,
00:12to be able to express my work and my vision through different projects.
00:21Renault is a brand that is part of the collective memory, being French.
00:25I grew up with this lozenge, with the design of this logo made by Vasarely,
00:30who is one of my favorite artists.
00:32I like the idea of know-how, I like the idea of history, of legitimacy.
00:36That's what I really liked about our partnership with Renault.
00:42I was introduced to the R17 and it's true that I was very attracted to this car
00:46because there were a lot of codes that define my work.
00:49I had the opportunity to work on cars that corresponded to issues,
00:53whether it's a problem of traffic, size, mobility.
00:58As far as this project is concerned, it's more of a poem,
01:02it's more of an artistic vision, almost cinematographic, of the automobile.
01:11What interested me in this Restomod program was really the idea of revisiting an icon.
01:16For me, the challenge was to make it even more monoblock than it was.
01:21To try to harmonize the volumes, the different parts of the car.
01:25Beyond the design, we also extended the concept of the Restomod to the engine
01:29with a 100% electric, performing solution and in the air of time.
01:33I started with a good basis, the basis of the R17 is very interesting.
01:38I was already finding my codes in it.
01:40So there was just to simplify them, modify them, sometimes isolate them, sometimes bind them,
01:44sometimes try to remove a few elements so that it is more than one element.
01:48So to connect certain functions, the dashboard, the steering wheel,
01:52and also work on the materials that were consistent with my universe and my architectural universe.
01:59The idea is that there is no separation between the interior and the exterior.
02:02This is what I also like to do often in architecture.
02:04So the interior is really inspired by the universe of the living room.
02:08We made it much more domestic, less automobile.
02:12It was a first, I loved collaborating with the Renault teams.
02:15It's a team work, but there, it's big teams.
02:18There was immediately an understanding, a common vision.
02:21Working with the Sandeep teams, who modeled all my ideas in real time.
02:27I mean, I sent two sketches and two minutes later I already had the pieces that were modeled.
02:33This car inspired me very, very quickly.
02:36And Gilles adhered, I would say, almost automatically to the vision I had under the car.
02:41A car, it can take years.
02:43Here we are on a time of six months.
02:46There is all this work of reflection, and there is also this work of fear,
02:49where we say to ourselves, is this the right choice?
02:51There, we don't have that time.
02:53So you have to be able to be quite direct, and it's quite stimulating as a way of working.
03:00It's the car of a James Bond, but a little more modern.
03:03It's the car of a James Bond, but a little more fun.
03:06Maybe a little offbeat.
03:08Maybe a James Bond who would wear jackets and flower shirts.
03:12So it might be more Austin Power, actually.
