How can one rethink mobility and
Parisian tourism? Currently, flows of exchanges in the modern societies are
ever more complex and dense. Tourism is part of it, even if its image is more
often associated to discovery, pleasure and freedom. By leaving the
constraints of daily life, how to give more value to the journey by a personal
cultural experience, thanks to the possibilities of multimedia integrated to the
vehicle? The idea in DayTour is to define atypical trips for local and
international populations, in margin of mass tourism, while respecting the
environment.
Inspiring
himself from the codes of the barouche and of the opera’s ground floor boxes,
Julien Vandon designed a vehicle where a couple of tourists literally have a
front seat.Assisted and driven by a driver situated
behind them half-sat half-standing, the couple can all the more enjoy the sight
that the vehicle moves on two big transparent gyroscopic wheels. Far from
being typically Parisian, DayTour is a vehicle designed to strolling, visiting
or shopping, and can be adapted to any city with a rich tourist and cultural
capital.
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